Mexico public holidays 2027
Mexico has 9 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 1 Feb | Monday | Constitution Day
Día de la Constitución |
Nationwide |
| 15 Mar | Monday | Benito Juárez's birthday
Natalicio de Benito Juárez |
Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Thursday | Maundy Thursday
Jueves Santo |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Friday | Labour Day
Día del Trabajo |
Nationwide |
| 16 Sep | Thursday | Independence Day
Día de la Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 15 Nov | Monday | Revolution Day
Día de la Revolución |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
May
June
July
August
September 1 holiday
October
November 1 holiday
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 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Mexico in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Mexico. 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 59 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 252working 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 9, Mexico sits below the middle of the range, around the 17th 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 4 days, from 25 March to 28 March (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday). There is also one bridge day: 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.
6 holidays change date compared with 2026: Constitution Day, Benito Juárez's birthday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Labour Day, Revolution Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.