Current Date And Time In Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
07:57:13 AST
Capital: Kingstown
Currency: East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Timezone: UTC -04:00 (AST)
Population: 100,857
Use this page to check Saint Vincent And The Grenadines's national public holidays: a continuously updated calendar covering both past and upcoming dates. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines observes 1 official public holidays mandated by national law (including Independence 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 Saint Vincent And The Grenadines directly affect cross-border trade timing and payment settlement windows. This calendar is a standard reference point for corporate travel planners arranging international trips working with partners, offices or operations in Saint Vincent And The Grenadines.
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Live public holiday calendar for Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, 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 Saint Vincent And The Grenadines. 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 Saint Vincent And The Grenadines'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independence Day Commemorates independence granted in 1979. | October 27 | National Holiday | Full National Closure | www.gov.vc → |
Statutory holidays landing on a Monday, Friday, Tuesday or Thursday create a long-weekend opportunity — here's what's coming up.
| Holiday | Date | Opportunity |
|---|---|---|
| Independence Day | Tue, Oct 27, 2026 | Take the Monday before off for a 4-day weekend |
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. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines's calendar can include holidays governed by the Easter computus that many Christian-majority countries use, the Hijri lunar calendar behind Islamic observances such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, or a lunisolar cycle behind holidays like Lunar New Year. As a country in North America, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines sits in a region where both kinds of calendar are common — which is exactly why the live calendar above lists each year's actual computed date rather than assuming a repeat.
Under Saint Vincent And The Grenadines'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 Saint Vincent And The Grenadines in the table above, currently sourced from Saint Vincent And The Grenadines's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Independence Day on October 27. Official gazette announcements are published by government authorities to confirm these mandated closures.
Worth separating, too: a true public holiday is a legally mandated non-working day — banks, schools and government offices close by law or long-standing custom. An observance is different — culturally or religiously notable, but without a mandated closure (Valentine's Day and Earth Day are common examples worldwide). This page focuses specifically on public holidays, the ones that actually affect scheduling.
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines 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.