New Caledonia public holidays 2026
New Caledonia has 13 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 8 May | Friday | Victory Day | Nationwide |
| 14 May | Thursday | Ascension Day | Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Whit Monday | Nationwide |
| 14 Jul | Tuesday | French National Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Saturday rest day | Assumption Day | Nationwide |
| 24 Sep | Thursday | New Caledonia Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Sunday rest day | All Saints' Day | Nationwide |
| 11 Nov | Wednesday | Armistice Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Thursday | New Year's Eve | Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March
April 1 holiday
May 4 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September 1 holiday
October
November 2 holidays
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 136 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about New Caledonia in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in New Caledonia. 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: Assumption Day (15 Aug), All Saints' Day (1 Nov). 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and May the shortest with 17. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 60 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 13, New Caledonia sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 3 April to 5 April (Good Friday). There are also 4 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 2026.