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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Costa Rica, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
Includes subnational coverage · 5 subdivisions covered.
The next public holiday in Costa Rica is
Black Person
In 9 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time America/Costa_Rica
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Costa Rica public holidays in 2026
12 national closures in 2026, of 19 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Verified |
| 2 April 2026 | Maundy Thursday expected | Verified |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 11 April 2026 | Juan Santamaría Day expected | Verified |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day expected | Verified |
| 25 July 2026 | Annexation expected | Verified |
| 2 August 2026 | Our Lady expected | Verified |
| 15 August 2026 | Mother's Day expected | Verified |
| 31 August 2026 | Black Person expected | Verified |
| 15 September 2026 | Independence Day expected | Verified |
| 1 December 2026 | Abolition expected | Verified |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
The shape of Costa Rica’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
12 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Costa Rica, 2026
7 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. National closures only, computed on a Monday–Friday week — an assumption, not something the corpus records for this jurisdiction.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 2 Apr – 5 Apr | 4 days | Maundy Thursday, Good Friday | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 29 Aug – 31 Aug | 3 days | Black Person | no leave needed |
| 12 Sep – 15 Sep | 4 days | Independence Day | take Mon 14 Sep |
| 28 Nov – 1 Dec | 4 days | Abolition | take Mon 30 Nov |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day | no leave needed |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Costa Rica, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory closures | 12 | 12 verified | 2026-08-03 | |
| Religious observances | 6 | 6 verified | 2026-08-03 | |
| Optional and restricted days | 5 | 3 verified · 2 compiled | — | |
| Observed but open | 2 | 2 compiled | 2026-08-21 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 19 | 15 verified · 4 compiled | 2026-08-21 | |
| School terms and breaks | 24 | — | — | 4 calendars |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 5 | — | — | |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 6 | — | — | |
| Elections | 21 | — | — | |
| Announcements | 4 | — | — |
Not held for Costa Rica: Statutory weekly rest, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Exchange closures. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
8 named documents, issued by 8 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Event calendars (salsavida.com, bodyandsoulinternational.com) citing the Limón Carnival Commission Event calendars citing the Puntarenas Carnival organizers La Nación / TicoTimes / Teletica reporting the Zapote Festival Commission Municipalidad de Cartago Municipalidad de Nicoya Santuario Nacional Santo Cristo de Esquipulas Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (SCIJ/SINALEVI), Procuraduría General de la República internal
How Costa Rica keeps time
| Observances | 19 across the national calendar and 5 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 15 verified · 0 corroborated · 4 compiled, from 10 named sources |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-21 |
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15 of 19 dated closures were read from the instrument itself; the rest come from independent secondary sources or published compilations. Across 10 named sources, and every row says which.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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