Marshall Islands public holidays 2027
Marshall Islands has 11 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Mar | Monday | Remembrance Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Constitution Day | Nationwide |
| 2 Jul | Friday | Fishermen's Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Sep | Friday | Labour Day
Labor Day |
Nationwide |
| 24 Sep | Friday | Manit Day | Nationwide |
| 17 Nov | Wednesday | Presidents' Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Dec | Friday | Gospel Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Friday | New Year's Eve | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 1 holiday
June
July 1 holiday
August
September 2 holidays
October
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Marshall Islands in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Marshall Islands. 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Constitution Day (1 May), 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and September the shortest with 20. A gap of 2 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working days, so 2027gives you 1 more working day.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, Marshall Islands sits below the middle of the range, around the 38th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 7 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). See every long weekend in 2027.
5 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Fishermen's Day, Labour Day, Manit Day, Gospel Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.