Statutory holidays in Canada, 2026 and 2027

Canada has no single list of stat holidays. Each province and territory sets its own in its employment standards law, and the Canada Labour Code sets one for federally regulated jobs. The lists run from six holidays in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador to 11 in B.C. and the three territories. Pick where you work to see your dates, the next holiday and what you're owed.

• 14Separate holiday lists: 13 provinces and territories, plus federal
• 4Holidays on every list
• 6 to 11Stat holidays per jurisdiction
• March 28Easter Sunday 2027, so Good Friday is March 26

Which holidays count where

Four holidays are on all 14 lists: New Year's Day, Canada Day, Labour Day and Christmas Day. Newfoundland and Labrador calls July 1 Memorial Day.² Good Friday is on 13; in Quebec, your employer picks Good Friday or Easter Monday.³ After that, the lists split. The dot means the day is on that jurisdiction's list of paid statutory, general or public holidays.^{1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16}

● Stat holiday. ◐ Quebec's Good Friday or Easter Monday, chosen by the employer; Remembrance Day in Manitoba and Nova Scotia, which separate laws govern. ○ Optional in Alberta: an employer can choose to recognize it.⁶ The highlighted column follows your pick in the tool.

Every holiday date for 2026 and 2027

We computed each date from the rule in law or on the official list, and checked the results against the tables B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Yukon and New Brunswick publish.^{5,6,7,8,17,18,19} Victoria Day is the Monday before May 25 under the federal Holidays Act, and Canada Day moves to July 2 when July 1 is a Sunday.²⁰ Easter falls on April 5 in 2026 and March 28 in 2027.

Our calculation. Nunavut Day is July 9.²¹ The N.W.T. made June 21 a statutory holiday in 2001.²² Newfoundland and Labrador's regulations say five of its holidays are observed on dates the provincial cabinet proclaims under the Shops Closing Act; we show the calendar dates.²³

When a holiday lands on a weekend

In 2026, Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, and National Indigenous Peoples Day, a holiday in Yukon and the N.W.T., fell on Sunday, June 21. In 2027, Christmas is a Saturday and Boxing Day a Sunday. What you get for a weekend holiday depends on the law that covers your job.

Alberta and Saskatchewan are the outliers: an Alberta worker who doesn't normally work Saturdays gets nothing extra for Christmas 2027, and Saskatchewan doesn't move a Saturday holiday, though its holiday pay of 5% of recent wages is owed either way.^6,7,28

Holiday pay basics, province by province

Part-time workers get stat holidays too. Ontario says full-time, part-time and term employees qualify no matter how recently they were hired,¹ Alberta applies the same pay calculations to full-time, part-time and casual staff,⁶ and Quebec's CNESST says even someone hired a few days earlier gets the paid day.³ The formula changes from place to place, and several provinces add a qualifying period.

Minimums under each law, summarized from the official pages cited in the tool and the "Who qualifies" column. Yukon's numbers come from its general holiday pay fact sheet.³⁰ A contract or collective agreement can give you more.

Bank holidays and federal offices follow other lists

A "stat holiday" is a day your employment law gives you off with pay. Banks, the mail and government offices run on separate calendars, so a day can be a holiday for one and a workday for another.

• Payments and banks. Payments Canada's systems close on 10 days in 2026: the 10 federal general holidays, with Boxing Day moved to Monday, Dec. 28. Its 2027 schedule moves the Christmas closure to Monday, Dec. 27, and Boxing Day to Tuesday, Dec. 28. Family Day, Easter Monday and the August Civic Holiday aren't on its list.³² The Bank of Canada also marks Dec. 28, 2026, for Boxing Day; its schedule had no 2027 dates when we checked on Nov. 3.³³ Bank staff are federally regulated, so the Canada Labour Code list applies to them.⁴
• Mail. Canada Post closes on national, provincial and territorial holidays, including Easter Monday and the August civic holidays, but still collects and delivers mail on Family Day, Louis Riel Day and Islander Day.³⁴
• Taxes. The CRA's 2026 list adds Easter Monday and the Civic Holiday (outside Quebec). A payment due on a weekend or one of those days is on time if the CRA gets it the next business day.³⁵
• Federal public servants. Their designated paid holidays add Easter Monday and a provincial or civic holiday where they work, and a holiday that falls on a day of rest moves to the next scheduled workday.³⁶
• Provincial staff. Newfoundland and Labrador's public servants get 14 designated holidays, including St. Patrick's Day and Orangemen's Day.³⁷ Private-sector workers there get the six in the Labour Standards Act.¹³

Days people ask about that aren't stat holidays

• Easter Monday. Not on any list except Quebec's, where the employer can pick it instead of Good Friday. It's optional in Alberta.^3,6
• The first Monday in August in Ontario. Ontario employers don't have to give it.¹ It is a stat holiday in B.C., Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, the N.W.T. and Nunavut, under different names.^5,7,10,15,16 Alberta's Heritage Day is optional, and Manitoba says Terry Fox Day isn't a general holiday.^6,8
• Boxing Day outside Ontario and federal jobs. Ontario's list and the federal list are the only two with Dec. 26. B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon and the N.W.T. name Boxing Day among the days that aren't holidays under their laws, and Alberta lists it as optional.^{5,6,8,14,28,31} New Brunswick and Nova Scotia still close most stores that day under their retail rules.^17,19
• Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Neither is on any of the 14 lists; Saskatchewan's page names Christmas Eve as not a public holiday.²⁸
• Remembrance Day in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Nova Scotia. It isn't on those four lists, though Manitoba's separate Remembrance Day law closes most industries on Nov. 11.^1,3,27,38 See our Remembrance Day guide for the rule in each province.

What people are saying

We read Reddit threads in r/ontario, r/alberta, r/britishcolumbia and r/PersonalFinanceCanada. Most of the confusion is about the August long weekend, Sept. 30 and holidays that land on a day off.

• "It’s a civic holiday, not a statutory holiday, like Canada Day or Labour Day."

  Commenter on r/ontario, Aug. 1, 2022³⁹

  Correct for Ontario. The province's guide says employers don't have to give the first Monday in August.¹

• "Growing up it was always called a bank holiday. Banks and other civic/federal institutions are closed but most stores and restaurants will work normal hours."

  Commenter on r/ontario, Aug. 1, 2022³⁹

  Partly. Canada Post closes and the CRA treats it as a holiday, but Payments Canada's systems run that day.^32,34,35

• "Heritage Day is not a statutory holiday like Canada day is. It's up to employers what they do with that day, legally speaking."

  Commenter on r/alberta, Aug. 12, 2024⁴⁰

  Correct. Alberta lists Heritage Day as an optional holiday.⁶

• "Nothing. If its your regular day off, its just a day off"

  Commenter on r/alberta, Oct. 29, 2023, replying to a worker on a four-day schedule⁴¹

  That matches Alberta's rule, which is stricter than most provinces': no holiday pay and no day in lieu if you don't work.⁶

• "It’s for all eligible BC employees now, not just government employees. It’s also up to the employer to give you a day off in lieu, you don’t automatically get Monday off even if you work M-F"

  Commenter on r/britishcolumbia, Sept. 13, 2023, about Sept. 30 that year, a Saturday⁴²

  B.C. says a stat on your day off earns an average day's pay; the law doesn't move the day to Monday.²⁵

• "Boss said we are a “federally regulated industry” so the BC stat day doesn’t count for us…"

  Commenter on r/britishcolumbia, Sept. 13, 2023⁴²

  The Canada Labour Code has listed Sept. 30 as a general holiday for federally regulated employers since 2021, so those workers get it under federal law.⁴

Claims we checked

Holiday-list sites often copy one national table. These are the errors we found while building this page.

• False
  Sept. 30 is a holiday for federally regulated workplaces only.

  StatutoryHolidays.com's 2026 list says "National, federally regulated workplaces only."⁴³ B.C., Manitoba, P.E.I., Yukon, the N.W.T. and Nunavut all list it in their own laws.^{5,8,12,14,15,16}

• False
  The Civic Holiday is a stat holiday in Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Nunavut.

  Same site, same table.⁴³ Ontario employers don't have to give it, Alberta's Heritage Day is optional and Manitoba says Terry Fox Day isn't a general holiday. The list also leaves out the N.W.T., where the first Monday in August is statutory.^1,6,8,15 The table also marks Victoria Day and Thanksgiving as national except Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador; neither is on New Brunswick's or P.E.I.'s list.^10,12

• False
  Sept. 30 is optional in Nunavut.

  Canada-holidays.ca marks it "(Optional)" on its Nunavut page.⁴⁴ Nunavut's Labour Standards Act lists it as a general holiday.¹⁶ The territory's own labour standards fact sheet still showed the older list of 10 holidays, without Sept. 30, when we checked in October 2026, and the CFIB's guide repeats that list.^45,46

• False
  Easter Monday is a holiday in Nunavut.

  Office Holidays lists Easter Monday as a regional holiday in Nunavut.⁴⁷ The Labour Standards Act doesn't include it.¹⁶ It's on the Government of Nunavut's list for its own employees.⁴⁸

Questions people ask

How we did this

We took each holiday list from the jurisdiction's own employment standards page or statute, and the federal list from the Canada Labour Code and Employment and Social Development Canada. Where an official page and the law disagree, we followed the law and said so, as with Nunavut's fact sheet. Bank, mail and tax-office closures come from Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada, Canada Post and the CRA. We gathered the sources on Oct. 7, 2026, and checked every one again on Nov. 3, 2026.

The tool computes every date from the legal rule: fixed dates, the n-th Monday of a month, the Monday before May 25, and Easter by the Gregorian calculation. We tested the Python and JavaScript versions against the official 2025 to 2028 tables and against each other for every jurisdiction from 2000 to 2060. The countdown runs on each jurisdiction's own clock, not your phone's settings, and applies the March and November clock changes only where they still happen (see our daylight saving time guide). This page is general information, not legal advice; for your own case, call your employment standards office.

Update log

• Nov. 3, 2026, 10:28 a.m. ETFirst published. Holiday lists, pay rules and closure schedules checked against each source on Nov. 3, 2026.