Public holidays and weekends in North America today

When do the most countries in North America have a public holiday?

In 2026 the map shows the most countries on a public holiday on these days:

• New Year's Day on 1 January and Christmas Day on 25 December in all 28 countries
• Good Friday on 3 April in 26 countries, all but Mexico and the United States
• Labor Day on 1 May in 15 countries

Of the countries with one calendar for the whole country, the most public holidays on working days in 2026 are in the Virgin Islands (23), the fewest in Cuba and Mexico (7).

How the map counts a day

All 28 countries on the map rest on Saturday and Sunday.

Each country is on its own date: today there, by the clock in its capital. A day picked on the strip shows that date in every country.

Every country takes the colour its own calendar gives the day: at work, on its weekend or on a public holiday. A public holiday on a weekend day takes the holiday's colour, as in the country's calendar. Days off for one group only, such as civil servants, and shortened working days are working days on the map. So is a Saturday or Sunday officially made a working day.

In 2026 the holiday colour appears somewhere on 128 of the 365 days, and on 1 January in 28 countries, more than on any other. On the other 237 days no country has a public holiday on a working day.

A country too small to draw at this scale is a dot.

To count the working days between two dates in one country, use the working days calculator on workdays.space.