El Salvador Public holidays
El Salvador has 22 public holidays on the calendar held here, in force from 1 Jan 2026. Last checked against the official source on 28 Oct 2026.
Official source: Código de Trabajo, D.L. No. 15 de 23-jun-1972 (D.O. No. 142, Tomo 236, 31-jul-1972), Art. 190; D.L. No. 339 · Last checked 2026-10-28 · source fingerprint
National paid holidays (asuetos remunerados) applicable to private-sector workers throughout the Republic, calendar year 2026.
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| Current value | 22 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Código de Trabajo, D.L. No. 15 de 23-jun-1972 (D.O. No. 142, Tomo 236, 31-jul-1972), Art. 190; D.L. No. 339 de 14-abr-2016 (asueto nacional 10 de mayo, Día de la Madre, sectores público y privado); D.L. No. 208 de 28-nov-2012 (asueto 17 de junio, Día del Padre) |
| Last verified | 2026-10-28 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Statutory basis verified from primary texts: Art. 190 CT lists 1-ene; jueves, viernes y sábado de Semana Santa; 1-may; 6-ago; 15-sep; 2-nov; 25-dic. The 10-may asueto is NOT in Art. 190 — it comes from D.L. No. 339/2016 Art. 1 ('asueto nacional remunerado para el sector público y privado', derogating D.L. 205/1983 which covered only the public sector; primary PDF loaded from jurisprudencia.gob.sv). The 17-jun asueto comes from D.L. No. 208/2012 (public+private; confirmed on the official MTPS site, mtps.gob.sv/2019/06/14). Semana Santa 2026 computed from Easter Sunday 5-abr-2026: 2, 3, 4 April. NO observance-shift rules exist — asuetos fall on the calendar date (10-may-2026 is a Sunday and is not moved). Deliberately excluded: 3 and 5 August (asueto only within the city of San Salvador, Art. 190 final para.), the 'principal local festivity day' of each other municipality (patron-saint days, local by definition), and public-employee-only vacation blocks under the Ley de Asuetos, Vacaciones y Licencias de los Empleados Públicos. Work on an asueto is paid at ordinary salary +100% surcharge (Art. 192 CT). Watch for one-off asueto decrees (precedent: 18-jun-2024 rain-emergency asueto). List cross-checked against 2026 press calendars (El Diario de Hoy/elsalvador.com) with full agreement. Access quirks: csj.gob.sv returns 403 to non-browser fetches; the CT text used is the Asamblea's Índice Legislativo consolidation mirrored on lalibertadoeste.gob.sv (official .gob.sv, May-2025 upload). CT citation note: the CT's own closing formula reads DADO (Asamblea) 23-jun-1972 and Casa Presidencial sanction 30-jun-1972; the DADO date is used here (matching this dataset's convention for D.L. 296/1992 and D.L. 957/2011). NATLEX cites the 30-jun sanction date — both refer to the same D.L. No. 15, D.O. No. 142, Tomo 236, 31-jul-1972. 2027 EXTENSION (2026-07-30): the 11 national asuetos of Codigo de Trabajo art. 190 as amended, including Mother's Day (10 May, D.L. 339/2016) and Father's Day (17 June, D.L. 208/2012). El Salvador has NO transfer rule: art. 194 provides only that a worker whose asueto coincides with the weekly rest day receives basic salary, with no extra or moved day, so Holy Saturday, Labour Day and Christmas - all Saturdays in 2027 - stay on their dates. NOT INCLUDED because they are not national: 3 and 5 August, which art. 190's final paragraph makes asuetos in the city of San Salvador only (and whose post-2023 administrative footprint is unsettled after the districts reform), and the principal day of each locality's own festival elsewhere in the country. Note separately that public employees receive 1-6 August and 24 December-2 January as licencia charged to vacation under their own statute, which is the origin of the widespread belief in a national 'first week of August' holiday; it does not bind private employers. Ad-hoc bridge asuetos are decreed by the Asamblea from time to time and none exists for 2027. RECONFIRMED 2026-10-28: reconfirm: no one-off nationwide asueto was found after 2026-07-30. Diario Oficial Tomo Nº 452, Número 177 (24 Sep 2026, HTTP 200, PDF) publishes Decreto No. 669, whose operative articles reform Código de Trabajo article 197 (Art. 1), article 200 (Art. 2) and article 202 (Art. 3) on the aguinaldo; article 190 asuetos are not amended. Art. 4 makes the decree enter into force on publication. Asamblea Legislativa search for palabra « asueto » with fecha de emisión 2026-07-31 to 2026-10-28 returned « Su búsqueda no produjo resultados ». The 2026 decree index (https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/leyes-y-decretos/decretos-por-anios/2026/0; leaf certificate CN=*.asamblea.gob.sv, verify error 21 incomplete chain) has no title containing asueto. Decreto 681 of 07/10/2026, missing from that index page but returned by the emission-date search, is « REFORMAS A LAS DISPOSICIONES ESPECIALES Y TRANSITORIAS PARA COMBATIR LA INFLACIÓN EN LOS PRECIOS DE LOS INSUMOS AGROPECUARIOS », not an asueto. Commemorative-day decrees 567 (07/05/2026) and 599 (10/06/2026) predate the last confirmation. https://latamref.dev/sv/public-holidays (HTTP 200) shows 22 days held, in force 2026-01-01 through 2026-12-31, but does not enumerate the 22 {date, name} objects, so the value is unchanged-list. jurisprudencia.gob.sv returned HTTP 520. MTPS search did not surface a post-July 2026 asueto.
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