Public holidays 2027

Public holidays in Costa Rica 2027

Costa Rica has 11 nationwide public holidays in 2027, 6 of them on a working day. None of its public holidays is regional.

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Costa Rica 2027 at a glance

Nationwide public holidays: 11
Of those, on a working day: 6
Of those, on a weekend: 5
Regional only: 0
Longest break: 4 days (25 March to 28 March)
Bridge days: 0
Most nationwide holidays in: March (2)

The weekend is taken as Saturday and Sunday for the working-day count, the long weekends and the bridge days.

All public holidays in Costa Rica, 2027

Public holidays in Costa Rica in 2027, by date
Date	Day	Holiday	Local name	Applies to
1 January	Friday	New Year's Day	Año Nuevo	Nationwide
25 March	Thursday	Maundy Thursday	Jueves Santo	Nationwide
26 March	Friday	Good Friday	Viernes Santo	Nationwide
11 April	Sundayweekend	Juan Santamaría Day	Día de Juan Santamaría	Nationwide
1 May	Saturdayweekend	Labour Day	Día Internacional del Trabajo	Nationwide
25 July	Sundayweekend	Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica	Anexión del Partido de Nicoya a Costa Rica	Nationwide
2 August	Monday	Feast of Our Lady of the Angels	Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles	Nationwide
15 August	Sundayweekend	Mother's Day	Día de la Madre	Nationwide
15 September	Wednesday	Independence Day	Día de la Independencia	Nationwide
1 December	Wednesday	Army Abolition Day	Día de la Abolición del Ejército	Nationwide
25 December	Saturdayweekend	Christmas Day	Navidad	Nationwide

Source: Nager.Date, checked on 3 November 2026. Regions are ISO 3166-2 codes.

Long weekends and bridge days in Costa Rica

A long weekend is three or more days off in a row made by a nationwide holiday and the weekend. A bridge day is a working day with a day off on both sides: one leave day there joins a holiday to the weekend, or two holidays to each other.

Long weekends (3)

Friday 1 January to Sunday 3 January 2027: 3 days off, with New Year's Day.
Thursday 25 March to Sunday 28 March 2027: 4 days off, with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday.
Saturday 31 July to Monday 2 August 2027: 3 days off, with Feast of Our Lady of the Angels.

Bridge days (0)

No working day in 2027 sits between two days off, so there is no bridge day by this rule.

Regional holidays are left out of both lists: they depend on where the employee works.

Regional holidays

Every public holiday in Costa Rica applies nationwide, so one list covers all employees there.

Add Costa Rica to your calendar

Download the 2027 calendar (.ics), or paste its address into Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar to subscribe. It holds one all-day event per public holiday and marks none of them as busy.

https://hoursquare.com/public-holidays/costa-rica/2027.ics

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