Public holidays worldwide in May 2027
126 different nationwide public holidays (counted by date and name) fall in May 2027 across the countries in our data. The busiest date is Saturday, 1 May 2027, when 154 countries have a public holiday. Holidays that apply only in some regions are not included here; open a country page for those.
| Date | Holiday | Countries |
|---|---|---|
| 1 May Sat | Labour Day 108 countries | Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica and 78 more |
| 1 May Sat | International Workers' Day 12 countries | Bulgaria, Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Martinique, Slovakia, Sweden, Tanzania, Ukraine, Uruguay |
| 1 May Sat | May Day 9 countries | Eritrea, Finland, Ghana, Iceland, Monaco, Poland, Saint Lucia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Åland Islands |
| 1 May Sat | Workers' Day 5 countries | Eswatini, Lesotho, Mali, Namibia, South Africa |
| 1 May Sat | Worker's Day 3 countries | Malta, Mozambique, Zimbabwe |
| 1 May Sat | Holy Saturday 2 countries | Bulgaria, Georgia |
| 1 May Sat | Constitution Day 1 country | Marshall Islands |
| 1 May Sat | Day of the Convocation of the Constitutional Assembly of the Republic of Latvia 1 country | Latvia |
| 1 May Sat | Early May Bank Holiday 1 country | Guernsey |
| 1 May Sat | Indian Arrival Day 1 country | Grenada |
| 1 May Sat | International Workers Day 1 country | Italy |
| 1 May Sat | International Working Day 1 country | Lithuania |
| 1 May Sat | Kazakhstan People's Unity Day 1 country | Kazakhstan |
| 1 May Sat | Labour Day (Moldova) 1 country | Moldova |
| 1 May Sat | Labour and Agriculture Day 1 country | Haiti |
| 1 May Sat | Labour day 1 country | Hungary |
| 1 May Sat | May Day / International Workers' Day 1 country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 1 May Sat | May Day Bank Holiday 1 country | Gibraltar |
| 1 May Sat | National Holiday 1 country | Austria |
| 1 May Sat | Saint Joseph the Worker 1 country | Vatican City |
| 1 May Sat | Spring Day 1 country | Estonia |
| 2 May Sun | Easter Sunday 12 countries | Albania, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine |
| 2 May Sun | Labour Day 2 countries | Montenegro, Slovenia |
| 2 May Sun | May Day / International Workers' Day 1 country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 3 May Mon | Easter Monday 9 countries | Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia |
| 3 May Mon | Labour Day 8 countries | Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Malawi, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Serbia, South Korea, Zambia |
| 3 May Mon | Early May Bank Holiday 3 countries | Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom |
| 3 May Mon | May Day 2 countries | Albania, Ireland |
| 3 May Mon | Constitution Day 1 country | Poland |
| 3 May Mon | Constitution Memorial Day 1 country | Japan |
| 3 May Mon | Emancipation Day 1 country | Cayman Islands |
| 3 May Mon | The Day of the Cross 1 country | El Salvador |
| 3 May Mon | Workers' Day 1 country | Nigeria |
| 4 May Tue | Cassinga Day 1 country | Namibia |
| 4 May Tue | Day of the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia 1 country | Latvia |
| 4 May Tue | Greenery Day 1 country | Japan |
| 5 May Wed | Children's Day 2 countries | Japan, South Korea |
| 5 May Wed | Arrival Day 1 country | Guyana |
| 5 May Wed | Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day 1 country | Ethiopia |
| 5 May Wed | Senior Citizens Day 1 country | Palau |
| 6 May Thu | Ascension Day 49 countries | Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Congo, Curaçao, Denmark, Eswatini, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Germany, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar and 19 more |
| 6 May Thu | Martyr's Day 1 country | Gabon |
| 6 May Thu | Saint George's Day 1 country | Bulgaria |
| 7 May Fri | Defender of the Fatherland Day 1 country | Kazakhstan |
| 7 May Fri | Soldiers' Day 1 country | El Salvador |
| 8 May Sat | Victory Day 9 countries | French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna |
| 8 May Sat | Day of victory over fascism 1 country | Slovakia |
| 8 May Sat | Liberation Day 1 country | Czechia |
| 8 May Sat | Victory day over Nazism in World War II 1 country | Ukraine |
| 8 May Sat | Victory in Europe Day 1 country | France |
| 9 May Sun | Liberation Day 2 countries | Guernsey, Jersey |
| 9 May Sun | Victory Day 2 countries | Belarus, Russia |
| 9 May Sun | Day of Victory over Fascism 1 country | Georgia |
| 9 May Sun | Europe Day 1 country | Luxembourg |
| 9 May Sun | Great Patriotic War Against Fascism Victory Day 1 country | Kazakhstan |
| 9 May Sun | Mother's Day 1 country | Latvia |
| 9 May Sun | Victory and Commemoration Day 1 country | Moldova |
| 9 May Sun | Victory and Peace Day 1 country | Armenia |
| 10 May Mon | Mother's Day 3 countries | El Salvador, Samoa, Tokelau |
| 10 May Mon | King's Official Birthday 2 countries | Pitcairn Islands, Tuvalu |
| 10 May Mon | Ascension Day 1 country | Colombia |
| 10 May Mon | Constitution Day 1 country | Micronesia |
| 10 May Mon | Father's Day 1 country | El Salvador |
| 10 May Mon | Gospel Day 1 country | Tuvalu |
| 11 May Tue | Commemoration Day 1 country | Belarus |
| 12 May Wed | Saint Andrew the First-Called Day 1 country | Georgia |
| 13 May Thu | Buddha's Birthday 2 countries | Hong Kong, South Korea |
| 14 May Fri | King Sihamoni's Birthday 1 country | Cambodia |
| 14 May Fri | National Unification Day 1 country | Liberia |
| 14 May Fri | Paraguayan Independence 1 country | Paraguay |
| 14 May Fri | President Kamuzu Banda's Birthday 1 country | Malawi |
| 15 May Sat | Day of Customs and Traditions 1 country | Burkina Faso |
| 15 May Sat | Paraguayan Independence 1 country | Paraguay |
| 16 May Sun | Pentecost 21 countries | Austria, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, French Polynesia, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sint Maarten, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Åland Islands |
| 16 May Sun | Eid al-Adha First Day (Tentative Date) 1 country | Türkiye |
| 16 May Sun | SPLA Day 1 country | South Sudan |
| 16 May Sun | Tabaski (Roughly Date) 1 country | Mali |
| 17 May Mon | Whit Monday 46 countries | Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, British Virgin Islands, Central African Republic, Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Faroe Islands, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Martinique, Monaco and 16 more |
| 17 May Mon | Constitution Day 3 countries | Nauru, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen |
| 17 May Mon | Discovery Day 1 country | Cayman Islands |
| 17 May Mon | Eid al-Adha Second Day (Tentative Date) 1 country | Türkiye |
| 17 May Mon | Hari Raya Haji 1 country | Singapore |
| 17 May Mon | Liberation Day 1 country | DR Congo |
| 18 May Tue | Battle of Las Piedras 1 country | Uruguay |
| 18 May Tue | Eid al-Adha Third Day (Tentative Date) 1 country | Türkiye |
| 18 May Tue | Flag and Universities Day 1 country | Haiti |
| 19 May Wed | Atatürk Commemoration & Youth Day 1 country | Türkiye |
| 19 May Wed | Eid al-Adha Fourth Day (Tentative Date) 1 country | Türkiye |
| 20 May Thu | National Day 1 country | Cameroon |
| 20 May Thu | Vesak Day 1 country | Singapore |
| 21 May Fri | Independence Day 1 country | Montenegro |
| 21 May Fri | Navy Day 1 country | Chile |
| 21 May Fri | Saint Helena Day 1 country | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
| 22 May Sat | Abolition Day 1 country | Martinique |
| 22 May Sat | Bălţi Day 1 country | Moldova |
| 22 May Sat | Independence Day 1 country | Montenegro |
| 23 May Sun | Labour Day 1 country | Jamaica |
| 24 May Mon | Saints Cyril and Methodius Day 2 countries | Bulgaria, North Macedonia |
| 24 May Mon | Independence Day 1 country | Eritrea |
| 24 May Mon | Royal Ploughing Ceremony 1 country | Cambodia |
| 24 May Mon | The Battle of Pichincha 1 country | Ecuador |
| 24 May Mon | Victoria Day 1 country | Canada |
| 25 May Tue | Africa Day 6 countries | Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zimbabwe |
| 25 May Tue | Africa Day/ Heroes' Day 1 country | Lesotho |
| 25 May Tue | African Freedom Day 1 country | Zambia |
| 25 May Tue | May Revolution 1 country | Argentina |
| 26 May Wed | Independence Day 2 countries | Georgia, Guyana |
| 26 May Wed | Memorial Day 1 country | Northern Mariana Islands |
| 27 May Thu | Corpus Christi 16 countries | Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Haiti, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago |
| 27 May Thu | Abolition Day 1 country | Guadeloupe |
| 27 May Thu | Army Day 1 country | Nicaragua |
| 27 May Thu | Children's Day 1 country | Nigeria |
| 28 May Fri | Abolition Day 1 country | Saint Martin |
| 28 May Fri | Bermuda Day 1 country | Bermuda |
| 28 May Fri | Downfall of the Derg 1 country | Ethiopia |
| 28 May Fri | Genocide Remembrance Day 1 country | Namibia |
| 28 May Fri | Mother's Day 1 country | Dominican Republic |
| 28 May Fri | Republic Day 1 country | Armenia |
| 30 May Sun | Indian Arrival Day 1 country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 30 May Sun | National Day 1 country | Croatia |
| 31 May Mon | Spring Bank Holiday 5 countries | Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom |
| 31 May Mon | Memorial Day 3 countries | Puerto Rico, United States, United States Virgin Islands |
| 31 May Mon | Anguilla Day 1 country | Anguilla |
| 31 May Mon | Corpus Christi 1 country | Colombia |
| 31 May Mon | JAGS McCartney Day 1 country | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 31 May Mon | King's Birthday 1 country | Turks and Caicos Islands |
Frequently asked questions
Which date has the most public holidays in May 2027?
Saturday, 1 May 2027, when 154 countries have a public holiday.
How many different public holidays are there in May 2027?
126 distinct date and holiday combinations across all countries in our data.
Are regional holidays included?
No. This page lists only holidays that apply in the whole country. Regional holidays are shown on each country's page.