Rwanda public holidays 2027
Rwanda has 13 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 |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Feb | Monday | National Heroes' Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 7 Apr | Wednesday | Tutsi Genocide Memorial Day | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Thursday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 4 Jul | Sunday rest day | Liberation Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Aug | Friday | Umuganura Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Assumption Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February 1 holiday
March 2 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July 2 holidays
August 2 holidays
September
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 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Rwanda in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Rwanda. 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.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (2 Jan), Labour Day (1 May), Liberation Day (4 Jul), Assumption Day (15 Aug), Christmas Day (25 Dec), St. Stephen's Day (26 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 252working 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 13, Rwanda sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th 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 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). 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.
4 holidays change date compared with 2026: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Umuganura Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.