Panama public holidays 2027
Panama has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 9 Jan | Saturday rest day | Martyrs' Day
Día de los Mártires |
Nationwide |
| 8 Feb | Monday | Carnival Monday
Lunes de Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 9 Feb | Tuesday | Carnival Tuesday
Martes de Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Día del Trabajo |
Nationwide |
| 3 Nov | Wednesday | Separation Day
Separación de Panamá de Colombia |
Nationwide |
| 4 Nov | Thursday | Flag Day
Día de los Símbolos Patrios |
Nationwide |
| 5 Nov | Friday | Consolidation of the Separation Day
Consolidación de la Separación de Panamá de Colombia |
Nationwide |
| 10 Nov | Wednesday | Shout in Villa de los Santos
Primer Grito de Independencia de la Villa de Los Santos |
Nationwide |
| 29 Nov | Monday | Independence Day
Independencia de Panamá de España |
Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Wednesday | Mother's Day
Día de las Madres |
Nationwide |
| 20 Dec | Monday | National Day of Mourning
Día de Duelo Nacional |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February 2 holidays
March 1 holiday
April
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September
October
November 5 holidays
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 144 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| 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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 136 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Panama in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Panama. 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.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: Martyrs' Day (9 Jan), Labour 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and November 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, Q4 is the leanest at 59 working days (October, November, December).
2026 had 248working days, so 2027gives you 2 more 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 14, Panama sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th 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 5 days, from 3 November to 7 November (Separation Day, Flag Day, Consolidation of the Separation Day). See every long weekend in 2027.
5 holidays change date compared with 2026: Carnival Monday, Carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, Independence Day, National Day of Mourning. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.