If you’re thinking of coming to Buenos Aires, it’s essential for you to know the public holiday calendar to organize your trip. With the objective of promoting tourism, Argentina often moves some holidays to their closest Monday or Friday, creating the so called “Long weekends”. There are few exceptions: Labor Day (May 1st), Revolution Day (May 25th), Independence Day (July 9th), Christmas (December 25th) and New Year (December 31st and January 1st). The rest are adapted to have longer breaks.
On holidays, the amount of people in the city declines. Especially, Downtown where most of the offices are located. ¿Where do porteños go? Many chose to stay at home with their families or to go out to parks of coffees (depending on the season). Those who had the time to plan a trip, traditionally move to the Atlantic Coast, seaside resorts located 300-400km south of Buenos Aires. Some of the most popular are San Bernardo, Villa Gessell, Pinamar y Mar del Plata.
This year we have had only two holidays (New Year on January 1st and Memory Day on March 24th) and there’s another one coming (Easter, from April 1st to April 4th). Hostel Colonial gives you the full public holiday, so you can plan your trip in the best way.
April 1st: Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday).
April 2nd: Holy Friday (Good Friday) and Malvinas Veteran and Fallen Day.
April 3rd: Holy Saturday.
April 4th: Easter.
May 1st: Labor Day.
May 25th: Revolution Day and First Argentine Government. This year we also commemorate our Bicentennial.
June 21st: Death of General Manuel Belgrano (originally on June 20th).
July 9th: Independence Day.
August 16th: Death of General José de San Martín (originally on August 17th).
October 11th: Encounter of Two Cultures –former Race Day- (originally on October 12th).
December 8th: Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
December 25th: Christmas.
December 31st: New Years Eve.
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