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7 public holidays
Mexico has 7 public holiday dates recorded for 2026. 7 of the listed dates are treated as non-working days and reduce the working-day count; 0 of those fall at a weekend. For the effect on working days see Mexico business days 2026.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Deducted from working days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | Thursday | Año Nuevo | Yes |
| 2026-02-02 | Monday | Día de la Constitución | Yes |
| 2026-03-16 | Monday | Natalicio de Benito Juárez | Yes |
| 2026-05-01 | Friday | Día del Trabajo | Yes |
| 2026-09-16 | Wednesday | Día de la Independencia | Yes |
| 2026-11-16 | Monday | Día de la Revolución | Yes |
| 2026-12-25 | Friday | Navidad | Yes |
Article 74 of the Federal Labour Law enumerates the mandatory rest days workers must be paid for: New Year, the first Monday of February (commemorating Constitution Day on the 5th), the third Monday of March (Benito Juárez's birthday, from the 21st), Labour Day, Independence Day (16 September — the celebration itself, 15 September's "grito", is not a legal holiday), the third Monday of November (commemorating the Revolution of the 20th), Christmas, plus the inauguration day on 1 October every six years (moved from 1 December by the 2024 reform) and election days set by electoral law. Cinco de Mayo — the best-known Mexican date abroad — is not a federal rest day at all.
The structural twist: three fixed dates were deliberately moved to Mondays by successive reforms, so Mexican holidays cluster into long weekends ("puentes") and the working-day loss is capped while the leisure blocks are large. The other twist is that Day of the Dead (1–2 November) is not a legal holiday at all despite being the country's signature cultural event — schools and some offices near-miss it while the Pachuca-Querétaro belt closes down. And December 12, the Virgin of Guadalupe, is technically a workable day yet the Basilica district of Mexico City behaves like a holiday in every sense that affects traffic, deliveries and meeting attendance.
Deducted days are national public holidays (the days the dataset records as applying to the whole country). Holidays observed only in part of the country, or only in particular sectors, are listed with “Regional or sector-specific only” and are not deducted from the business-day counts.