Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha public holidays 2027
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha has 8 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day | SH-TA |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday | Nationwide |
| 21 May | Friday | Saint Helena Day | Nationwide |
| 14 Aug | Saturday rest day | Anniversary Day | SH-TA |
| 30 Aug | Monday | August Bank Holiday | SH-HL, SH-AC |
| 19 Nov | Friday | King's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 27 Dec | Monday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 28 Dec | Tuesday | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
The 3 regional dates above are observed only in part of the country and are left out of every national total on this page.
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 2 holidays
June
July
August
September
October
November 1 holiday
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 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and May the shortest with 19. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 254working days, so 2027gives you 1 fewer working day.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 8, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha sits below the middle of the range, around the 12th 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 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). See every long weekend in 2027.
6 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, King's Birthday, Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.