Public holidays 2026 in British Virgin Islands
There are 15 public holidays in 2026.
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| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Local name | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday | New Year's Day | |||
| Monday | Lavity Stoutt's Birthday | The Anniversary of the Birth of Hamilton Lavity Stoutt | ||
| Friday | Good Friday | |||
| Monday | Easter Monday | |||
| Monday | Pentecost Monday | Whit Monday | ||
| Friday | Sovereign's Birthday | |||
| Monday | Virgin Islands Day | |||
| Monday | Emancipation Monday | |||
| Tuesday | Emancipation Tuesday | |||
| Wednesday | Emancipation Wednesday | |||
| Monday | Heroes and Foreparents Day | |||
| Monday | The Great March of 1949 and Restoration Day | |||
| Friday | Christmas Day | |||
| Saturday | Boxing Day | |||
| Monday | Boxing Day (observed) |
Days marked "observed" are substitute days off when a holiday falls on a weekend. Holidays based on a lunar calendar can shift by a day once the official announcement is made.
Long weekends 2026
12 times a public holiday lies close to a weekend – with a little leave it becomes a long weekend:
| Take leave | Off | Days of leave | Days off | Ratio | Occasion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Jan | 1 Jan – 4 Jan 2026 | 1 | 4 | 4 | New Year's Day |
| Tue 3 Mar, Wed 4 Mar, Thu 5 Mar, Fri 6 Mar | 28 Feb – 8 Mar 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Lavity Stoutt's Birthday |
| Mon 30 Mar, Tue 31 Mar, Wed 1 Apr, Thu 2 Apr | 28 Mar – 6 Apr 2026 | 4 | 10 | 2.5 | Good Friday, Easter Monday |
| Tue 7 Apr, Wed 8 Apr, Thu 9 Apr, Fri 10 Apr | 3 Apr – 12 Apr 2026 | 4 | 10 | 2.5 | Good Friday, Easter Monday |
| Tue 26 May, Wed 27 May, Thu 28 May, Fri 29 May | 23 May – 31 May 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Pentecost Monday |
| Mon 8 Jun, Tue 9 Jun, Wed 10 Jun, Thu 11 Jun | 6 Jun – 14 Jun 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Sovereign's Birthday |
| Tue 7 Jul, Wed 8 Jul, Thu 9 Jul, Fri 10 Jul | 4 Jul – 12 Jul 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Virgin Islands Day |
| Thu 6 Aug, Fri 7 Aug | 1 Aug – 9 Aug 2026 | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | Emancipation Monday, Emancipation Tuesday, Emancipation Wednesday |
| Tue 20 Oct, Wed 21 Oct, Thu 22 Oct, Fri 23 Oct | 17 Oct – 25 Oct 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Heroes and Foreparents Day |
| Tue 24 Nov, Wed 25 Nov, Thu 26 Nov, Fri 27 Nov | 21 Nov – 29 Nov 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | The Great March of 1949 and Restoration Day |
| Mon 21 Dec, Tue 22 Dec, Wed 23 Dec, Thu 24 Dec | 19 Dec – 28 Dec 2026 | 4 | 10 | 2.5 | Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Boxing Day (observed) |
| Tue 29 Dec, Wed 30 Dec, Thu 31 Dec | 25 Dec – 3 Jan 2027 | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Boxing Day (observed), New Year's Day |
Counted are gaps of up to four working days between a public holiday and the weekend or another public holiday. "Ratio" = days off per day of leave. Weekends follow the local working week.
Dates are generated from the open-source library python-holidays and automatically cross-checked against Nager.Date and the public Google Calendar holiday calendars; every holiday on a working day must be confirmed by a second source. Official announcements take precedence, especially for holidays that depend on the moon or are declared at short notice.
Sources
- Data: python-holidays 0.105 (MIT licence), country code VG (retrieved Sep 27, 2026)
- Cross-check: Nager.Date public holiday API (MIT licence) (retrieved Sep 27, 2026)
- Cross-check: Google Calendar public holiday calendar (en.vg) (retrieved Sep 27, 2026)
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Other years
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