Nicaragua public holidays 2026
Nicaragua has 12 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Feb | Sunday rest day | Air Force Day | Nationwide |
| 2 Apr | Thursday | Holy Thursday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 27 May | Wednesday | Army Day | Nationwide |
| 19 Jul | Sunday rest day | Liberation Day | Nationwide |
| 14 Sep | Monday | Battle of San Jacinto | Nationwide |
| 15 Sep | Tuesday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 12 Oct | Monday | Indigenous Resistance Day | Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Thursday | New Year's Eve | Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April 1 holiday
May 2 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August
September 2 holidays
October 1 holiday
November
December 3 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 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Nicaragua in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Nicaragua. 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: Air Force Day (1 Feb), Liberation Day (19 Jul). 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.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and May 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, Q2 is the leanest at 62 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 12, Nicaragua sits right in the middle of the range, around the 53rd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 4 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 12 September to 15 September (Battle of San Jacinto, Independence 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 2026.