South Sudan public holidays 2027
South Sudan has 12 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 | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 27 Mar | Saturday rest day | Holy Saturday | Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | SPLA Day | Nationwide |
| 9 Jul | Friday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 30 Jul | Friday | Martyrs' Day | Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Christmas Eve | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Second Day of Christmas |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 4 holidays
April
May 2 holidays
June
July 2 holidays
August
September
October
November
December 3 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 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| 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 South Sudan in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in South Sudan. 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: Holy Saturday (27 Mar), Easter Sunday (28 Mar), Labour Day (1 May), SPLA Day (16 May), 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and July 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 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 253working 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 12, South Sudan sits right in the middle of the range, around the 53rd 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 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). See every long weekend in 2027.
4 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.