Current Date And Time In Guadeloupe
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
06:51:50 AST
Here's the live public holiday calendar for Guadeloupe — recently observed dates plus upcoming ones, kept current automatically rather than a fixed yearly list. Guadeloupe observes 1 official public holidays mandated by national law (including Fête Nationale (Bastille Day)). Some holidays fall on a fixed calendar date every year — an Independence or Republic Day, for instance. Others, governed by the Easter calculation, the Islamic lunar calendar, or an "nth weekday of the month" rule, shift from year to year, so each year carries its own actual date rather than an assumed repeat. Jump straight to the live calendar below, or read on for how the dates are worked out.
Why This Matters: Public holidays in Guadeloupe directly affect on-the-ground staffing and call-centre coverage planning. This calendar is a standard reference point for supply chain managers timing operations around local closures working with partners, offices or operations in Guadeloupe.
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Live public holiday calendar for Guadeloupe, embedded directly from Google's official public calendar — always shows Google's current data.
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Statutory public holidays mandated by national government law in Guadeloupe. 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 Guadeloupe'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.
| Holiday Name | Date / Observance | Category / Type | Closure Impact | Official Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fête Nationale (Bastille Day) French national day celebrated in Guadeloupe. | July 14 | National Public Holiday | Full Official Closure | www.regionguadeloupe.fr → |
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. Guadeloupe'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 North America vary widely in which calendar systems their holidays follow, Guadeloupe included — that variation is exactly why the calendar above computes each year's date individually rather than repeating one.
Under Guadeloupe'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 Guadeloupe in the table above, currently sourced from Guadeloupe's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Fête Nationale (Bastille Day) on July 14. 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.
Guadeloupe isn't divided into separate states or provinces the way some larger federated nations are, so its public holiday calendar applies uniformly nationwide — the dates shown above hold the same way across the whole country, without a regional layer to account for.