📅 Live Holiday Calendar — Cabo Verde

Live public holiday calendar for Cabo Verde, embedded directly from Google's official public calendar — always shows Google's current data.

◀ Showing upcoming holidays — use the back arrow in the calendar's toolbar to see earlier dates this year.

ℹ Calendar supplied and maintained by Google. See the full travel profile for emergency numbers, electrical standards and more.

🏛️ Official Statutory National Holidays — Cabo Verde

Statutory public holidays mandated by national government law in Cabo Verde. These fixed dates reflect official non-working days. For dynamic, movable religious observances (e.g., Eid, Easter), refer to the live calendar embed above.

⚠ These entries are sourced from Cabo Verde's official government portal but have not yet been individually cross-checked against a specific confirming page — treat the dates below as a helpful starting point, not a final confirmed record.

🧳 Upcoming Long Weekends in Cabo Verde

Statutory holidays landing on a Monday, Friday, Tuesday or Thursday create a long-weekend opportunity — here's what's coming up.

📖 How Public Holidays Work in Cabo Verde

Not every holiday repeats on the same date each year. Fixed-date holidays — a national or founding day, typically — recur exactly, while a country's movable holidays are governed by a separate calendar system and land on a different date every year. Cabo Verde's calendar can include holidays governed by an Easter-based calculation, the Hijri lunar calendar used for Islamic observances, or a lunisolar calendar — each running independently of the standard Gregorian civic calendar. Countries across Africa vary widely in which calendar systems their holidays follow, Cabo Verde included — that variation is exactly why the calendar above computes each year's date individually rather than repeating one.

Under Cabo Verde's labor law, fixed-date national public holidays carry mandatory non-working status for public administration, financial institutions, and commercial enterprises — 1 such holiday is documented for Cabo Verde in the table above, currently sourced from Cabo Verde's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Dia da Independência Nacional on July 5. Official gazette announcements are published by government authorities to confirm these mandated closures.

It's also worth distinguishing a public holiday from an observance. A public holiday is a government-mandated day off — offices, banks and schools close. An observance marks something culturally or religiously significant without requiring anyone to close for it. This page tracks public holidays only, since those are the dates that actually change a day's schedule.

Cabo Verde is also divided into states and provinces, and countries structured this way often layer a regional founding day, a local patron festival or a province-specific holiday on top of the national calendar — observed in one state but not nationwide. The calendar above covers Cabo Verde's national holidays; see the Cabo Verde states & provinces directory for population and government data on each one.