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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Honduras

The list of Honduras bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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25 Oct 2008 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) It was announced late last night that Honduras' President, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, had given instructions to the Minister of the Civil Service, Víctor Meza, to change the date when the public sector will observe this year's Army Day holiday, from Monday, October 27, to Monday, November 10, 2008. • 16 Sep 2008 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) Basing itself on the legislative decree 50-2003, Honduras' secretaría de Gobernación y Justicia has issued a directive moving the date of observance of 2 upcoming public holidays to the next Monday. • 21 Dec 2007 (El Heraldo) The General Secretary of the Honduras Ministry of Administration and Justice, Florencia García, announced last night that executive decree 72-2007 had been issued creating two, one-off, bridge holidays for civil servants: Monday, December 24, and Monday, December 31, 2007. • 03 Oct 2007 (Proceso Digital) Late in the evening of October 2, the Honduras Minister of the Interior, announced that the government had decided to move the date of the October 3 and October 12 public holidays, to October 8 and October 15, respectively. • 27 Dec 2006 It was restated that, as per the decreto legislativo 50-2003, passed by the Congreso Nacional, the only 2 days of public holidays for civil servants, in Honduras, are December 25 and January 1. Government services will be functioning on all other dates. • 02 Oct 2006 Morozán Day and Día de la Raza: for 2006, it was confirmed that many businesses and banks would move these holidays to the following Monday, October 9 and October 16, respectively. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Honduras public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Law of Record: Public holidays in Honduras are governed by the Article 339 of the 1959 Labour Code (Decreto núm. 189 del 15 de julio de 1959) which replaced the Decreto Legislativo n° 96 de 4 de marzo de 1949, sobre días inhábiles o feriados and the Decreto Legislativo n° 7 de 11 de marzo de 1958, sobre días feriados. The dispositions of the 1959 Labour Code were amended by the 1987 Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo, which in turn was amended in 1998 by Decree 288-98 which cancelled the public holidays of April 14, September 17, October 3 and 12, to focus the nation's vital forces on repairing the damages done by hurricane Mitch. The amendment was later repealed in 2001 by Decree 199-2001 which re-instated these 4 public holidays. • Weekend Public Holidays: Article 339 of the Honduran Labour Code specifies that public holidays that fall on a week-end remain on that date (ie. no day in lieu is given). • Mid-Week Public Holidays: the Honduran government has a habit of officially moving some public holidays to the following Monday, but historical records show that which public holidays get moved to the following Monday is somewhat arbitrary, changes every year, and is usually only announced in the 10-15 days prior to the holiday. We would therefore recommend that you avoid trying to do business on any Monday that follows one of the above public holidays dates. • Semana Santa (week before Easter): Under President Ricardo Maduro (2002-2006) it bacame habitual for civil servants to get the first 3 days of Easter week off, to enable them to have 9 consecutive days off. This has been continued by the following government, with compensation for these 3 extra days off coming in the form of either 3 working Saturdays (2007), or the canceletion of 3 public holidays for civil servants (2008). • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Central Bank of Honduras (Honduras central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Honduras, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Honduras, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Honduras, before planning any trip to Honduras. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.