Sint Maarten public holidays 2026
Sint Maarten has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Nieuwjaarsdag |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Goede vrijdag |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Pasen |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 27 Apr | Monday | King's Day
Koningsdag |
Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Thursday | Carnival Day
Karnaval |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Dag van de Arbeid |
Nationwide |
| 14 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Hemelvaartsdag |
Nationwide |
| 24 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pinksteren |
Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Wednesday | Emancipation Day | Nationwide |
| 12 Oct | Monday | Constitution Day | Nationwide |
| 11 Nov | Wednesday | Sint Maarten Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Kerstmis |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Tweede kerstdag |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March
April 5 holidays
May 3 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August
September
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 144 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Sint Maarten in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Sint Maarten. 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: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Pentecost (24 May), 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and April the shortest with 18. A gap of 4 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 59 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Sint Maarten sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 3 April to 6 April (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). 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 2026.