Trinidad and Tobago public holidays 2027
Trinidad and Tobago has 12 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 254 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 |
| 30 Mar | Tuesday | Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day | Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| 30 May | Sunday rest day | Indian Arrival Day | Nationwide |
| 19 Jun | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Aug | Sunday rest day | Emancipation Day | Nationwide |
| 31 Aug | Tuesday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 24 Sep | Friday | Republic Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 3 holidays
April
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 2 holidays
September 1 holiday
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 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Trinidad and Tobago in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Trinidad and Tobago. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Indian Arrival Day (30 May), Labour Day (19 Jun), Emancipation Day (1 Aug), 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and May the shortest with 20. 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 252working 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, Trinidad and Tobago sits right in the middle of the range, around the 53rd 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 5 days, from 26 March to 30 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday, Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation 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.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Corpus Christi. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.