São Tomé and Príncipe public holidays 2027
São Tomé and Príncipe has 8 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 255 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Ano Novo |
Nationwide |
| 3 Feb | Wednesday | Martyrs' Day
Dia dos Mártires |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Dia do trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| 12 Jul | Monday | Independence Day
Dia da Independência |
Nationwide |
| 6 Sep | Monday | Armed Forces Day
Dia das Forças Armadas |
Nationwide |
| 30 Sep | Thursday | Agricultural Reform Day
Dia da Reforma Agrária |
Nationwide |
| 21 Dec | Tuesday | São Tomé Day
Dia de São Tomé |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Natal |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April
May 1 holiday
June
July 1 holiday
August
September 2 holidays
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 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 6 | 255 | 2,040 |
What the numbers say about São Tomé and Príncipe in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in São Tomé and Príncipe. 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: 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 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 62 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 255working days, so 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 8, São Tomé and Príncipe sits below the middle of the range, around the 12th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 3 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). There are also 2 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 2027.