Planning for your trip next year? Here's the list of Official Regular and Special Holidays in the Philippines in 2016 as per Proclamation No. 1105, s. 2015 signed by the President.
The following regular holidays and special holidays for the year 2016 shall be observed in the Philippines:
Regular Holidays:
New Year’s Day | 1 | January (Friday) |
Maundy Thursday | 24 | March |
Good Friday | 25 | March |
Araw ng Kagitingan | 9 | April (Saturday) |
Labor Day | 1 | May (Sunday) |
Independence Day | 12 | June (Sunday) |
National Heroes Day | 29 | August (Last Monday of August) |
Bonifacio Day | 30 | November (Wednesday) |
Christmas Day | 25 | December (Sunday) |
Rizal Day | 30 | December (Friday) |
Special (Non-Working) Days
Chinese New Year | 8 | February (Monday) |
EDSA People Power Revolution | 25 | February |
Black Saturday | 26 | March |
Ninoy Aquino Day | 21 | August (Sunday) |
All Saints Day | 1 | November (Tuesday) |
Additional special (non-working) days | 2 | January (Saturday) |
– | 31 | October (Monday) |
– | 24 | December (Saturday) |
– | 31 | December (Saturday) |
"The proclamations declaring national holidays for the observance of Eid’l Fitr and Eidul Adha shall hereafter be issued after the approximate dates of the Islamic holidays have been determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations, whichever is possible or convenient. To this end, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) shall inform the Office of the President of the actual dates on which these holidays shall respectively fall."
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