Trinidad and Tobago public holidays
Public holidays — 'close holidays in banks and public offices' (s. 2) — set out in the Schedule to the Public Holidays and Festivals Act, Chap. 19:05, ss. 3 and 4, for calendar year 2026. Two of the fourteen (Eid-ul-Fitr and Divali) are movable and take effect only when the President appoints the date by Notification published in the Gazette.
| Current value | 14 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Public Holidays and Festivals Act, Chap. 19:05, Schedule (sections 3 and 4), consolidated text — Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs; as amended by Legal Notice No. 68 of 2024 (Public Holidays and Festivals (Amendment to Schedule) Order, 2024, dated 18 April 2024); Eid-ul-Fitr 2026 date fixed by Legal Notice No. 25 of 2026 (Notification by President Christine Carla Kangaloo, dated 4 February 2026, Legal Supplement Part B, Vol. 65, No. 13, 5 February 2026) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-23 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
FOURTEEN statutory public holidays, not seventeen. TRAP 1 — CARNIVAL IS NOT A PUBLIC HOLIDAY. Carnival Monday and Tuesday (16 and 17 February 2026) are a PUBLIC FESTIVAL declared under s. 5 of the same Act, regulated by the Carnival Regulations, 2026 (Legal Notice No. 19 of 2026) and the Carnival (Prohibition of Glass Bottles) Regulations, 2026 (L.N. No. 20 of 2026); the dates are confirmed in the Traffic Restriction (Temporary Provisions) (Carnival) Order, 2026 (L.N. No. 31 of 2026). They do not appear in the Schedule and are not close holidays in banks and public offices, although most private employers close. Nearly every commercial holiday calendar and API wrongly lists them (and sometimes Easter Sunday) as public holidays, inflating the count to 16 or 17. TRAP 2 — SUNDAY-ONLY ROLL-FORWARD. Section 3(2) moves a holiday to the next non-holiday day only where it falls on a SUNDAY (or where two holidays collide). SATURDAY holidays are NOT rolled forward: in 2026 Indian Arrival Day (30 May), African Emancipation Day (1 August) and Boxing Day (26 December) all fall on a Saturday and are lost. The Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London publishes a 2026 list showing Boxing Day 'observed' on Monday 28 December — that is the UK substitute-day rule applied to a UK mission, not TT law; that list also mixes in UK bank holidays and omits the two Saturday TT holidays. No 2026 holiday falls on a Sunday, so s. 3(2) is not engaged this year. TRAP 3 — NAME CHANGE. L.N. 68 of 2024 replaced 'Emancipation Day—1st August' with 'African Emancipation Day—1st August'; the old label persists in most third-party data. TRAP 4 — DIVALI IS NOT YET FIXED. The Schedule gives Eid-ul-Fitr and Divali as 'date to be appointed' by Presidential Notification; the Eid notification for 2026 issued on 4 February 2026 (Friday 20 March 2026), but no Divali notification had been gazetted as at 23 July 2026 (checked Legal Notices Nos. 1-45 of 2026). Almanacs put Divali 2026 on Sunday 8 November 2026 — DO NOT SERVE AS FACT; if the President appoints a Sunday, s. 3(2) would push the holiday to Monday 9 November 2026. Re-check the e-Gazette Legal Notices from about mid-October 2026. The consolidated Act PDF hosted by Legal Affairs is marked 'UNOFFICIAL VERSION, UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016', so the Schedule must always be read together with later amending Orders from printery.gov.tt/e-gazette/. Entries with a null date carry a structured pending_window (YYYY-MM) so the settlement-date endpoint can REFUSE that window rather than silently treat an unappointed statutory holiday as a business day (added 2026-07-27).
Get it programmatically
curl https://latamref.dev/v1/tt/public-holidays
# Free.
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