Public holidays in Chile, 2026

How Chile public holidays work in 2026

Chile recognises about seventeen feriados legales under Law 19.973 of 2004 and subsequent amendments, alongside dates fixed by separate statutes. The list includes New Year's Day, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Labour Day on 1 May, Navy Day on 21 May commemorating the 1879 Battle of Iquique, Saint Peter and Saint Paul on 29 June, Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July (patroness of the armed forces), Assumption on 15 August, Independence Day on 18 September and Glories of the Army on 19 September together forming the Fiestas Patrias, Day of the Encounter of Two Worlds on 12 October, Day of the Evangelical Churches, All Saints' Day, Immaculate Conception, Christmas Day and Plebiscite Day where applicable.

Working days in Chile

The Código del Trabajo article 22 sets the standard private-sector week at 44 hours over five or six days, reduced from 45 by Law 21.561 of 2023 phased in through 2028. The standard private-sector office and banking week is Monday to Friday with Sunday as the statutory weekly rest day under article 35. The Civil Procedure Code (Código de Procedimiento Civil) article 66 rolls procedural deadlines falling on a feriado to the next día hábil. Settlement of Chilean peso transactions runs on the Banco Central de Chile's LBTR RTGS system and the ComBanc clearing house, which observe the seventeen-day national holiday list.

For people planning cross-border meetings, the practical move is to overlay Chile's calendar with the calendars of the other countries on your team. A week that looks completely clear from your end might be a national holiday on theirs. The compare tool above pairs two country calendars and highlights the overlapping closures, so you can spot the weeks where almost no one is at their desk before you put a launch on the board.