All jurisdictions · Americas
Colombia
Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Colombia, 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 · 9 subdivisions covered.
The next public holiday in Colombia is
Race
In 15 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time America/Bogota
Work with Colombia’s calendar
- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Colombia’s closures removed and every excluded day named.
- Find the next business day Add or subtract N working days from a date, skipping weekends and closures — for filing and settlement dates.
- Discover long weekends Every run of consecutive days off in a year, and the bridge days worth taking. Pick Colombia from the list.
- Compare with your other markets Colombia beside the rest — the weeks that work everywhere, and which dates are still estimates.
Colombia public holidays in 2026
18 national closures in 2026, of 25 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 | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 12 January 2026 | Epiphany (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 23 March 2026 | St Joseph's Day (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 2 April 2026 | Maundy Thursday | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 18 May 2026 | Ascension (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 8 June 2026 | Corpus Christi (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 15 June 2026 | Sacred Heart (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 29 June 2026 | SS Peter | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 20 July 2026 | Independence Day | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 7 August 2026 | Battle | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 17 August 2026 | Assumption (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 12 October 2026 | Race | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 2 November 2026 | All Saints' Day (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 16 November 2026 | Independence (substitute day) | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 8 December 2026 | Immaculate Conception | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day | Tier 1 · Authority-sourced |
The shape of Colombia’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
18 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Colombia, 2026
17 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on a Monday–Friday week. The corpus holds Sunday as this jurisdiction’s statutory weekly rest — corroborated — but a labour code names the day it guarantees, not the days custom adds, so it is cited above rather than computed from.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 10 Jan – 12 Jan | 3 days | Epiphany (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 21 Mar – 23 Mar | 3 days | St Joseph's Day (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 2 Apr – 5 Apr | 4 days | Maundy Thursday, Good Friday | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 16 May – 18 May | 3 days | Ascension (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 6 Jun – 8 Jun | 3 days | Corpus Christi (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 13 Jun – 15 Jun | 3 days | Sacred Heart (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 27 Jun – 29 Jun | 3 days | SS Peter | no leave needed |
| 18 Jul – 20 Jul | 3 days | Independence Day | no leave needed |
| 7 Aug – 9 Aug | 3 days | Battle | no leave needed |
| 15 Aug – 17 Aug | 3 days | Assumption (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 10 Oct – 12 Oct | 3 days | Race | no leave needed |
| 31 Oct – 2 Nov | 3 days | All Saints' Day (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 14 Nov – 16 Nov | 3 days | Independence (substitute day) | no leave needed |
| 5 Dec – 8 Dec | 4 days | Immaculate Conception | take Mon 7 Dec |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day | no leave needed |
Next in each subdivision
2 subdivisions of Colombia keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the Calendar API.
| Subdivision | Next | Observance |
|---|---|---|
| Barranquilla | 8 February 2027 | Barranquilla Carnival |
| Distrito Capital de Bogotá | 6 August 2027 | Bogotá Foundation Day |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Colombia, 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 weekly rest | 1 | corroborated | — | 1 named source, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 20 | 18 verified · 2 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Religious observances | 15 | 12 verified · 3 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Optional and restricted days | 5 | 5 compiled | — | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 25 | 18 verified · 7 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 9 | — | — | |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XBOG (66) |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 5 | — | — | |
| Elections | 30 | — | — |
Not held for Colombia: Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, School terms and breaks, School terms and breaks. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
3 named documents, issued by 3 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Alcaldías and public bodies (Alcaldía de Barranquilla, Alcaldía de Bogotá, Alcaldía de Medellín, Alcaldía de Popayán, Alcaldía de Cartagena) Gestor Normativo, Departamento Administrativo de la Función Pública (Colombia) internal
How Colombia keeps time
| Observances | 25 across the national calendar and 6 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 18 Tier 1 · 7 Tier 4, from 7 named sources |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XBOG |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-03 |
The Colombia dossier
Not sure what you get? Read the New Zealand dossier or Saint Helena — complete documents, free, no account.
18 of 25 observances were read from the instrument itself; the others rest on an official document, on several independent sources, or on a published calendar reference. Across 7 named sources, and every row says which tier it holds.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
Loading contents…
Interested in Colombia?
Get your free Developer account — no credit card required. One country at national scope, unlimited calls, and it does not expire.
Start with Colombia
Assurance labels and subdivision inheritance on every date, through the Calendar API or the console. The free tier covers one country at national level — enough to judge the data before you pay for it.
Global Operating Calendar
Colombia beside every other market you work in — the weeks that work everywhere, where office hours overlap, and which dates are estimates rather than facts.
The same dossier exists for all 241 jurisdictions, priced by depth rather than by which country it is — browse the dossiers.
We do not promise a calendar that never changes. Dates move: authorities declare holidays at short notice and publish corrections of their own. Every record here shows what stands behind it, and when a date changes we correct it, publish it, and tell the people it affects.