Liberia public holidays 2027
Liberia has 11 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 11 Feb | Thursday | Armed Forces Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Mar | Wednesday | National Decoration Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Mar | Monday | Joseph Jenkins Roberts Birthday | Nationwide |
| 9 Apr | Friday | Fast and Prayer Day | Nationwide |
| 14 May | Friday | National Unification Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Jul | Monday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 24 Aug | Tuesday | National Flag Day | Nationwide |
| 4 Nov | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day | Nationwide |
| 29 Nov | Monday | William V. S. Tubman's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March 2 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October
November 2 holidays
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Liberia in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Liberia. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
1 holiday lands on a rest day this year: Christmas Day (25 Dec). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and February the shortest with 19. A gap of 4 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 253working days, so 2027gives you 2 fewer working days.Plans copied over from last year without adjusting for that difference will be slightly off from January onwards.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 11, Liberia sits below the middle of the range, around the 38th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). There are also 3 bridge days: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2027.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: National Decoration Day, Fast and Prayer Day, Thanksgiving Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.