📅 Live Holiday Calendar — Venezuela

Live public holiday calendar for Venezuela, 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 — Venezuela

Statutory public holidays mandated by national government law in Venezuela. 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 Venezuela'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 Venezuela

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 Venezuela

Two calendar mechanics sit behind most public holiday lists: a fixed-date system for civic anniversaries, which repeat annually, and a second, older calendar system behind a country's religious or lunar-based observances, which don't. Venezuela'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. Venezuela, like much of South America, likely carries at least one holiday from each category on its calendar — one reason the list above shows a specific date per year instead of a single recurring one.

Under Venezuela'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 Venezuela in the table above, currently sourced from Venezuela's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Día de la Independencia on July 5. 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.

Venezuela 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 Venezuela's national holidays; see the Venezuela states & provinces directory for population and government data on each one.