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The 2027 public holiday report

The 44 countries covered here observe 529 national public holidays between them in 2027, an average of 12.0 each. Colombia has the most with 19; Vietnam the fewest with 7. Between them, 173 of those holidays land on a Saturday or Sunday without being moved, which is 173 days off that exist on paper and not in practice.

529
Public holidays in 2027
12.0
Average per country
173
Lost to weekends
8
Countries changing from 2026

1. Who gets the most public holidays in 2027

The top and bottom of the table, ranked on national public holidays only, counted once each even where the day off is moved.

National public holidays per country in 2027, ranked. All 44 countries.
RankCountryHolidaysOn a weekendLong weekendsWorking days
1 Colombia19313245
2 Indonesia1883251
3 Chile1779251
4 Argentina1648249
5 Japan1607245
6 Bangladesh1564248
7 China1565252
8 Malaysia1563252
9 Greece1464253
10 Poland1465253
11 South Africa1446251
12 Thailand1424249
13 Austria1344252
14 Egypt1355249
15 Finland1373255
16 Italy1364254
17 Philippines1354253
18 Portugal1353253
19 Sweden1382256
20 Kenya1235252
21 Nigeria1256252
22 Norway1253255
23 South Korea1274252
24 France1144254
25 New Zealand1108250
26 Singapore1135253
27 Switzerland1163256
28 Ukraine1117251
29 United States11010250
30 Australia1034254
31 Belgium1034254
32 Brazil1033254
33 Canada1025253
34 Denmark1043255
35 India1051256
36 Ireland1027253
37 Spain1034254
38 Germany943256
39 Netherlands923254
40 Turkey926248
41 United Arab Emirates844252
42 United Kingdom806253
43 Mexico724256
44 Vietnam724254

2. Who comes off worst from the calendar

A holiday on a Saturday, in a country that does not grant a substitute weekday, is a day off that never happens. In 2027 that costs Indonesia the most: 8 of its 18 holidays fall on a weekend, so it effectively observes 10. The countries losing the most days this way:

Countries with a substitute day rule do not appear here, because their weekend holidays are moved to a weekday and counted on the day taken. That is why a rule that looks like bureaucratic detail is worth more to a worker than an extra holiday on paper.

3. Where a day of leave is worth the most

A bridge day is one working day between a public holiday and a weekend. Take it and the two join up. Across the 12 countries with planning pages:

4. The dates the world shares in 2027

Some dates are close to universal and some are not nearly as universal as they look. The dates observed in the most countries in 2027:

5. What changed from 2026

Eight countries observe a different number of national public holidays in 2027 than in 2026. Most of these are calendar mechanics rather than policy: a lunar date crossing a year boundary, or a substitute day appearing because a fixed holiday moved onto a weekend.

Method, and how to cite this

Every figure here is computed from the same dataset that renders the country pages, so nothing on this page can disagree with them. National public holidays only; regional days are excluded. A holiday moved off a weekend is counted once, on the day observed, which is why these totals match official government counts and are lower than on sites that list both dates. Working day counts assume a Monday to Friday week and do not subtract holidays that fall on a weekend. The full rules are on the methodology page, and every correction applied to the source data is in the corrections log.

Countries whose 2027 calendar is not yet official are included and labelled as such on their own pages; six of the 44 are in that position for 2027, so their figures may shift when the authority publishes.

The underlying data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Download it at /data/year/2027.json or read the API documentation.

Other years: the 2025 report, the 2026 report. The country by country tables behind all of them start at the country index.

Suggested citation: HolidayGrid, The 2027 public holiday report, holidaygrid.net/report/2027, CC BY 4.0.