The Philippines sets its holiday calendar by presidential proclamation, one year at a time. The 2027 list — Proclamation No. 1427, signed on September 8, 2026 — names ten regular holidays and eight special non-working days; the dates of two more regular holidays, Eid'l Fitr and Eid'l Adha, are still pending. For a visitor the list matters less for the days off than for what happens around them: the long weekends are when flights, ferries and beach rooms fill, and when offices you may need are shut.
Confirmed: 10 regular holidays, 8 special non-working days and 1 special working day — Proclamation No. 1427, signed September 8, 2026 · The full list below
Pending: the 2027 dates of Eid'l Fitr and Eid'l Adha, which come by separate proclamations
Local holidays: declared place by place, sometimes only days ahead
We update this box when the remaining proclamations are issued.
All festival and holiday dates, with their status, in one calendar →
When are the long weekends in the Philippines in 2027? The confirmed holidays, together with the ordinary weekends beside them, make seven stretches of three or more days off: January 1–3, Holy Week (March 25–28), April 9–11, August 28–30, October 30–November 2, December 24–26 and December 30–January 2. They are planning windows, not extra holidays. Holy Week and the two year-end stretches are the heaviest travel periods, and the Eid holidays may add more once their dates are proclaimed.
The 2027 holiday list
Dates and classifications are as set by the proclamation. A regular holiday and a special non-working day are both days off for government offices; the difference between them is the pay rule for people who work, which the labor department sets. A special working day is an ordinary working day.
| 2027 | Holiday | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Fri Jan 1 | New Year's Day | Regular holiday |
| Sat Feb 6 | Chinese New Year — Binondo's celebration | Special non-working day |
| Thu Feb 25 | EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary | Special working day — not a day off |
| Thu Mar 25 | Maundy Thursday — Holy Week guide | Regular holiday |
| Fri Mar 26 | Good Friday | Regular holiday |
| Sat Mar 27 | Black Saturday | Special non-working day |
| Fri Apr 9 | Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) | Regular holiday |
| Sat May 1 | Labor Day | Regular holiday |
| Sat Jun 12 | Independence Day | Regular holiday |
| Sat Aug 21 | Ninoy Aquino Day | Special non-working day |
| Mon Aug 30 | National Heroes Day (last Monday of August) | Regular holiday |
| Mon Nov 1 | All Saints' Day | Special non-working day |
| Tue Nov 2 | All Souls' Day | Special non-working day |
| Tue Nov 30 | Bonifacio Day | Regular holiday |
| Wed Dec 8 | Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary | Special non-working day |
| Fri Dec 24 | Christmas Eve | Special non-working day |
| Sat Dec 25 | Christmas Day | Regular holiday |
| Thu Dec 30 | Rizal Day | Regular holiday |
| Fri Dec 31 | Last Day of the Year | Special non-working day |
| Date pending | Eid'l Fitr (the end of Ramadan) | Regular holiday — 2027 date not yet proclaimed |
| Date pending | Eid'l Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) | Regular holiday — 2027 date not yet proclaimed |
Eid'l Fitr and Eid'l Adha: Both are recognized regular holidays in the Philippines. Their official 2027 observance dates will be established through separate presidential proclamations.
Source: Official Gazette — Proclamation No. 1427 (PDF), "Declaring the Regular Holidays and Special (Non-Working) Days for the Year 2027", signed September 8, 2026 (the Gazette's entry). Section 2 of the proclamation leaves the two Eid dates to later proclamations, on the recommendation of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos.
Long weekends for travel planning
These are not additional holidays. They are the stretches of three or more days off that the confirmed holidays make when they fall beside an ordinary Saturday or Sunday, for someone on a Monday-to-Friday week — useful for planning a trip, and a warning of when everyone else is traveling too.
- January 1–3 (Friday–Sunday): New Year's Day on the Friday, then an ordinary weekend.
- March 25–28 (Thursday–Sunday): Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are regular holidays and Black Saturday a special non-working day; Easter Sunday is an ordinary Sunday — what closes and where the crowds go during Holy Week.
- April 9–11 (Friday–Sunday): Araw ng Kagitingan on the Friday, then an ordinary weekend.
- August 28–30 (Saturday–Monday): an ordinary weekend, then National Heroes Day on the Monday.
- October 30–November 2 (Saturday–Tuesday): an ordinary weekend, then All Saints' Day on Monday and All Souls' Day on Tuesday — the days families travel home to visit cemeteries.
- December 24–26 (Friday–Sunday): Christmas Eve on Friday and Christmas Day on Saturday, then an ordinary Sunday.
- December 30–January 2 (Thursday–Sunday): Rizal Day on Thursday and the last day of the year on Friday, running into the New Year weekend — January 1, 2028 is a Saturday.
Five holidays fall on a Saturday and add no extra day off to a Monday-to-Friday week: Chinese New Year (February 6), Labor Day (May 1), Independence Day (June 12), Ninoy Aquino Day (August 21) and Christmas Day. Bonifacio Day is a Tuesday (November 30), with an ordinary working Monday before it, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a Wednesday (December 8).
Local holidays are declared separately
Cities and provinces also get their own special non-working days — for a founding anniversary, a fiesta or a festival — each by its own proclamation, and these can come late. In 2026 the national government declared January 9 a special non-working day in the City of Manila for the Feast of the Jesus Nazareno three days ahead (Proclamation No. 1126, January 6, 2026); a 2024 proclamation made January 10, 2025 a special day in Koronadal for its founding anniversary and the Hinugyaw Festival (Proclamation No. 758). A local holiday closes government offices in that place only. If a festival is the reason for your trip, check the city's announcements in the weeks before.
The festivals between the holidays
Most of the country's big festivals are not national holidays. Our dated guides, in calendar order:
- January 9: the Feast of the Black Nazarene and the Traslación in Manila.
- January 17: Sinulog in Cebu, with Ati-Atihan in Kalibo (January 7–17) and Dinagyang in Iloilo (January 22–24) — the festival circuit links the three.
- February 6: Chinese New Year in Binondo.
- February into early March: Panagbenga, Baguio's flower festival.
- March 21–28: Holy Week.
- December: the Christmas season — our Christmas guide covers the 2026 dates, and Simbang Gabi runs December 16–24 every year.
How holidays change travel
- Flights and ferries. Holiday periods are the peaks of domestic travel: during its 2026 Holy Week travel period the Philippine Coast Guard monitored about 3.4 million maritime passengers. The legs just before a long weekend and on its last day go first — book those before the rest of the trip. Not every sailing runs on the holiday itself: one ferry line's 2026 schedule, as reproduced on a ferry-schedule site, cancelled most of its Good Friday sailings and brought them back on Black Saturday.
- Trains in Manila. In 2026 LRT-1, LRT-2 and MRT-3 stopped from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday for their annual maintenance. Each year's schedule is announced in March.
- Hotels. Beach destinations fill on long weekends — our guides to Bantayan, Calaguas, Gigantes and Vigan all warn of Holy Week crowds. Our planner's rule of thumb for peak weeks is to start four months or more ahead.
- Government offices. They close on regular holidays and special non-working days. That includes Bureau of Immigration offices, so if you need a visa extension, count the working days around a long weekend before your stay runs out.
- Banks and malls. In 2026 most bank branches and Metro Manila's big mall chains closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, while ATMs and online banking kept running. Other holidays are lighter — check the place you need.
- Prices. Expect higher fares and room rates around the peaks. This page prints no figure for them, because they change by route and by date — price your own dates.