Suriname public holidays 2027
Suriname has 19 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Three Kings Day | Nationwide |
| 17 Jan | Sunday rest day | World Religion Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Feb | Saturday rest day | Chinese New Year | Nationwide |
| 25 Feb | Thursday | Day of the Revolution | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day | Nationwide |
| 5 Jun | Saturday rest day | Indian Arrival Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Thursday | Keti Koti | Nationwide |
| 8 Aug | Sunday rest day | Javanese Arrival Day | Nationwide |
| 9 Aug | Monday | Indigenous People's Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Oct | Sunday rest day | Day of the Maroons | Nationwide |
| 20 Oct | Wednesday | Chinese Arrival day | Nationwide |
| 25 Nov | Thursday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | Boxing Day | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 3 holidays
February 2 holidays
March 3 holidays
April
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 1 holiday
August 2 holidays
September
October 2 holidays
November 1 holiday
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Suriname in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Suriname. 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.
9 holidays land on a rest day this year: World Religion Day (17 Jan), Chinese New Year (6 Feb), Easter Sunday (28 Mar), Labour Day (1 May), Indian Arrival Day (5 Jun), Javanese Arrival Day (8 Aug), Day of the Maroons (10 Oct), Christmas Day (25 Dec), Boxing 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 59 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 248working days, so 2027gives you 3 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 19, Suriname sits above the middle of the range, around the 95th 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 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). There are also 4 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.
6 holidays change date compared with 2026: World Religion Day, Chinese New Year, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.