Canada has 7 national public holidays in 2028, and 255 business days across the year. Each date below is fixed — use the calculator to count a range of your own.
Business days
National holidays only — state and regional ones are not included.
| Date | Weekday | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| 3 January | Monday | New Year’s Day |
| 14 April | Friday | Good Friday |
| 1 July | Saturday | Canada Day |
| 4 September | Monday | Labour Day |
| 30 September | Saturday | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation |
| 13 November | Monday | Remembrance Day |
| 25 December | Monday | Christmas Day |
Out of 366 calendar days, 255 are business days once weekends and national holidays come out. That figure counts both ends of the year and ignores any leave your employer grants beyond the law.
Canada moves most of them to the next weekday when they land on a weekend. The exceptions, simply lost on a Saturday or Sunday, are Canada Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 2 are lost that way in 2028, leaving 5 that remove a working day.
No holiday falls on a Tuesday or a Thursday in 2028, so there is no obvious bridge day to take. The holidays sit on Mondays, Fridays and weekends, which spreads the long weekends more evenly than usual.
255, counting both 1 January and 31 December, with weekends and the 7 national holidays removed. State, provincial and local holidays are not included — they apply to part of the country, and counting some but not others would give a wrong answer that looks precise.
No. Only holidays that apply to the whole country are counted here. If your region has its own, subtract them yourself or use the calculator above with a range that skips them.
Public holidays change by law, not by formula — a parliament can create, move or abolish one. These dates reflect the law as it stands. Movable ones such as Easter are computed for the year, not copied from a table.
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