Paraguay public holidays 2027
Paraguay has 12 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 254 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Mar | Monday | Heroes' day
Dia de los héroes |
Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Thursday | Maundy Thursday
Jueves Santo |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Día de los Trabajadores |
Nationwide |
| 14 May | Friday | Paraguayan Independence
Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 15 May | Saturday rest day | Paraguayan Independence
Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 12 Jun | Saturday rest day | Chaco Armistice
Dia de la Paz del Chaco |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Founding of Asunción
Fundación de Asunción |
Nationwide |
| 29 Sep | Wednesday | Boqueron Battle Victory Day
Victoria de Boquerón |
Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Wednesday | Virgin of Caacupe
Virgen de Caacupé |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Día de Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 3 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 1 holiday
September 1 holiday
October
November
December 2 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 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Paraguay in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Paraguay. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Labour Day (1 May), Paraguayan Independence (15 May), Chaco Armistice (12 Jun), Founding of Asunción (15 Aug), 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 May 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working days, so 2027gives you 3 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 12, Paraguay 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 25 March to 28 March (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday). See every long weekend in 2027.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Paraguayan Independence. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.