2027 calendar with Canadian statutory holidays

Federal holidays versus your province's holidays

Canada has no single list of holidays that binds every employer. The Canada Labour Code (section 166) names ten general holidays, and they apply to federally regulated workplaces: banks, airlines, railways, telecoms, radio and TV, interprovincial trucking and federal Crown corporations. Everyone else follows the employment-standards law of their own province or territory, and those lists differ.

Most of the ten move with the calendar. Victoria Day is the Monday before May 25 (May 24 in 2027), Labour Day the first Monday of September (September 6) and Thanksgiving the second Monday of October (October 11). Good Friday follows Easter, which is early in 2027 (March 28), so Good Friday is March 26. Canada Day, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30) and Remembrance Day all land on a Thursday in 2027, which makes three long weekends for anyone who can take the Friday.

Where provinces part company: most keep a holiday on the third Monday of February under different names (Family Day in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and B.C., Louis Riel Day in Manitoba, Heritage Day in Nova Scotia, Islander Day on Prince Edward Island), all of them Monday, February 15 in 2027. Quebec has the Journée nationale des patriotes on May 24 instead of Victoria Day and the Fête nationale on June 24; Yukon and the Northwest Territories add National Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, June 21); Nunavut adds Nunavut Day (Friday, July 9). Boxing Day is a statutory holiday only in Ontario, and September 30 only in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the three territories. Pick a province and the grid, the long weekends and the PDF switch to its own list. Each provincial day comes from that province's employment-standards act: where the act states a rule rather than a date, such as Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000, s. 1(1) (“Family Day, being the third Monday in February”), the 2027 date is worked out from that rule, and the table above prints the act, section and rule beside it.

Christmas and Boxing Day on a weekend

In 2027 Christmas Day is a Saturday and Boxing Day a Sunday. The calendar shades the holidays on their real dates, December 25 and 26. When a general holiday falls on a day you would not have worked, federal and provincial laws generally give a paid day off on a nearby working day instead, and many employers will close on Monday, December 27 and Tuesday, December 28. Which day you get is set by the law that covers you and your employer, so those two weekdays are not shaded here.

Printing on US Letter

This page starts on US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), landscape, with weeks starting on Sunday, as Canadian wall calendars and printers do. Download the PDF and, in the print dialog, choose Actual size or Scale 100%. The year grid stays about 0.45 in (11 to 12 mm) from every edge, more than the 0.12 to 0.25 in a home inkjet or laser cannot reach, so nothing is clipped. For a fridge calendar choose A month per page in portrait, where each day cell carries the holiday's name and you can add your own photo to each month without it leaving your device.

The address keeps your choices, so a link can open a ready-made version: ?region=BC marks British Columbia's days, ?region=ON&lw=1 Ontario's with every long weekend outlined, ?layout=month&orient=portrait opens the monthly version and ?paper=a4&start=mon switches to A4 with Monday-first weeks.

Honest limits

Only statutory days are marked: no school breaks, no civic holidays a city declares, and no observances that are not days off, such as Mother's Day or Halloween. The first Monday of August is marked only where an act makes it a holiday: B.C. Day, Saskatchewan Day, New Brunswick Day, and the first Monday in August in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Ontario's Civic Holiday, Alberta's Heritage Day and Nova Scotia's Natal Day are days off for many workers but not general holidays, so they stay unmarked, as does Easter Monday (except as Quebec's alternative to Good Friday). Newfoundland and Labrador's extra provincial-government holidays, such as St. Patrick's Day, are for its public servants and are not marked. The sources were read once, on 2026-10-13 and 2026-10-14; if a government changes its list after that, this page will lag until it is updated. The main 2027 calendar maker has the same tool for other countries, and the US federal holidays page lists the American days for cross-border planning.

How a long weekend is counted

A long weekend here is any run of three or more days off in a row made only of Saturdays, Sundays and the public holidays this calendar marks for your country (and region, if you pick one). Nothing else counts: a day the source does not list is a working day, no “observed” day is added that the source does not state, and a holiday marked for part of a day only (Queensland’s Christmas Eve, from 6 pm) does not join a run. In England and Wales, Good Friday (26 March 2027) and Easter Monday (29 March) make one four-day run; the other 2027 bank holidays are Mondays, giving three-day weekends, and the substitute days for Christmas make Saturday 25 to Tuesday 28 December four days.

Bridge days are suggestions, not holidays. A bridge day is an ordinary working day between a holiday and a weekend. Take Friday 7 May 2027 off in Germany, after Ascension Day (Christi Himmelfahrt) on Thursday 6 May, and you are off Thursday to Sunday: four days for one day of leave. Two days of leave are listed when they give five or more days off, and three only when they join two weekends — Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 December in England and Wales turn into ten days, Saturday 25 December to Monday 3 January 2028 (the New Year substitute day). A bridge day is never coloured on the grid or in the PDF. Tick Mark long weekends (or add lw=1 to the link) to draw a dashed outline round every run on the sheet and in each PDF layout; month pages also print each run under that month’s holidays.