Is today a public holiday in Argentina?

Ley 27.399, Régimen Laboral LCT & Sistema de Pagos BCRA

In the Argentine Republic, statutory public holidays and long weekends are established under Ley N° 27.399 (Ley de Establecimiento de Feriados y Fines de Semanas Largos), administered by the Ministerio del Interior. Labor rights, workplace rest, and overtime remuneration are regulated under Title VI of the Ley de Contrato de Trabajo (LCT N° 20.744).

Under national statutes, the Argentine calendar is structured into three primary legal categories: Feriados Inamovibles (fixed national holidays), Feriados Trasladables (movable national holidays), and Días No Laborables (optional non-working days).

Feriados Nacionales vs. Días No Laborables (Articles 166 & 167 LCT)

Argentine employment law establishes a fundamental legal division between an official national holiday and an optional non-working day:

• Feriados Nacionales (Article 166 LCT): Mandatory rest days governed by the legal rules of Sunday rest. Employers must grant paid leave. If an employee is required to work, the employer must pay standard compensation plus a 100% statutory wage surcharge (salario doble). For monthly salaried personnel, unworked holiday pay is calculated using the statutory vacation divisor (monthly salary divided by 25 under Article 155), yielding a higher daily rate than ordinary working days.
• Días No Laborables (Article 167 LCT): In designated non-working days—most notably Jueves Santo (Maundy Thursday)—work is optional for private-sector employers, but mandatory for banks, insurance companies, and public administrations. If a private employer decides to operate, employees receive their standard single daily wage without any overtime supplement. If the employer elects not to open, the employee is still paid their normal daily wage.
• Religious Non-Working Days: Under Articles 2 through 4 of Ley 27.399, observing Jewish workers (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach) and Islamic workers (Islamic New Year, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha) are legally entitled to paid non-working days on their respective feast days.

The Shifting Mechanism for Feriados Trasladables (Article 6)

Under Article 6 of Ley N° 27.399, specific historic commemorations are designated as movable (trasladables) to promote domestic tourism without reducing statutory rest days:

• Midweek Rule (Tuesday or Wednesday): If a movable holiday falls on a Tuesday or Wednesday, it is transferred to the preceding Monday.
• End-of-Week Rule (Thursday or Friday): If a movable holiday falls on a Thursday or Friday, it is transferred to the following Monday.
• Holidays Covered: Paso a la Inmortalidad del General Martín Miguel de Güemes (17 June), Paso a la Inmortalidad del General José de San Martín (17 August), Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (12 October), and Día de la Soberanía Nacional (20 November).

Conversely, Feriados Inamovibles—such as Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia (24 March), Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de Malvinas (2 April), Día de la Revolución de Mayo (25 May), and Día de la Independencia (9 July)—remain strictly anchored to their calendar dates regardless of the day of the week.

Feriados Turísticos (Feriados Puente) & Fines de Semana Largos

Under Article 7 of Ley N° 27.399, the National Executive Power (Poder Ejecutivo Nacional - PEN) is legally empowered to designate up to three days per calendar year as tourism holidays or non-working days (feriados con fines turísticos). These dates must coincide with a Monday or Friday to bridge an immovable mid-week holiday with the weekend, published in the Official Gazette at least 50 days before the start of the calendar year. Under Article 8, when decreed as holidays, they carry full Article 166 LCT double-pay rights. Discover optimal vacation bridge combinations using our 2026 PTO Maximizer.

Banking Clearing Rails: BCRA, COELSA & Transferencias 3.0 (24/7)

Financial infrastructure across the Republic is supervised by the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) through Communications "A" regulatory circulars:

• Bank Closures (Feriados Bancarios): Commercial banks close for in-person branch counter operations on all national holidays, non-working banking days, and on 6 November (Día del Bancario) pursuant to CCT 18/75. Interbank electronic clearing through COELSA (Compensadora Electrónica S.A.) pauses for traditional batch debit, credit, and paper cheque truncation until the next operational business day. Calculate financial settlement dates using our Working Days Calculator.
• Instant Digital Payments (Transferencias 3.0 / CBU & CVU): Real-time interbank electronic transfers operate 24/7/365. Instant payments via home banking, mobile apps, digital wallets (Mercado Pago, MODO, Ualá), and interoperable QR codes clear immediately within seconds, even during national long weekends or bank holidays.

Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos (BYMA Trading Calendar)

The Argentine securities and derivatives market, Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos (BYMA), suspends all equity, sovereign bond, and futures trading sessions on all statutory national holidays and banking holidays decreed by the BCRA. Crucially, BYMA closes on all officially declared feriados con fines turísticos, aligning domestic market liquidity with the commercial banking system.

Argentina Payment Rails, Exchange Cutoffs & Statutory Pay Matrix (2026–2027)

When a statutory public holiday or in-lieu bank holiday occurs in Argentina, commercial banking counters, central bank real-time gross settlement (RTGS) rails, and retail instant payment systems follow distinct operational rules:

Key 2026 vs. 2027 Holiday Date Shifts & Bridge-Day Planning in Argentina

Because fixed calendar holidays shift one weekday forward between 2026 and 2027 (and movable lunar or liturgical holidays shift by 10 to 15 days), HR teams, payroll processors, and employees in Argentina should account for the following 2026–2027 date comparisons and leave-bridge opportunities: