| NATIONAL HOLIDAYS |
| Non-working days: |
| 01 January | - | New Year's Day |
| 06 January | - | Epiphany (Dominican children receive their gifts on this day, not on Christmas Day). This is a movable day (*). |
| 21 January | - | Day of Our Lady of Altagracia (Dominican patroness) |
| 26 January | - | Duarte's Birthday (first of the three founding fathers). This is a movable day (*). |
| 27 February | - | Independence Day |
| Variable | - | Holy Week and Easter Sunday after (between 22 March and 25 April). These days are non-working days in the education sector, in other sectors they are weekdays, except on Good Friday. |
| 01 May | - | International Labour Day. This is a movable day (*). |
| Last Sunday of May | - | Mother's Day |
| Variable | - | Corpus Christi, 60 days after Easter Sunday, a thursday in May or June. |
| Last Sunday of July | - | Father's Day |
| 16 August | - | Restauration Day |
| 24 September | - | Day of Our Lady of Las Mercedes (island's patroness) |
| 06 November | - | Constitution Day. This is a movable day (*). |
| 24 December | - | Christmas Eve. A working day till noon. |
| 25 December | - | Christmas Day. Note that Christmas Day is not a big deal for most Dominicans, even if it is a national holiday. The real Dominican Nativity celebration takes place on Christmas Eve, when families get together to share a late-night dinner of too many foods and too much to drink - similar to the American Thanksgiving Dinner. |
| 31 December | - | New Year's Eve. A working day till noon. |
| All the sundays of the year |
