Holidays in Puerto Rico

All official public holidays in Puerto Rico are determined by the State. However, there is an innumerable cultural holidays celebrated at each town and in the island; such as the Patron Feasts. This article tries to list all the majorly known holidays nation-wide.

Table of contents

1 Public Holidays with a set Date 2 Public Holidays without a set Date 3 Religious Holidays with a set Date 4 Religious Holidays without a set Date 5 Others

Public Holidays with a set Date

Date	English name	Local name (in Spanish)	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	Año Nuevo
July 4	Independence Day	4 de Julio Día de la Independencia Día de la Independencia de Estados Unidos
July 25	Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	25 de Julio Conmemoración del ELA Conmemoración del Estado Libre Asociado
November 11	Veteran's Day	Día del Veterano Día de la Recordación	Official national celebration held at the Puerto Rico National Cemetary.
December 25	Christmas	Día de Navidad Navidad Nacimiento del niñito Jesús Día del niño Jesús	Delivery day of Santa Claus. Traditionally, Santa Claus will leave the Christmas presents under the Christmas tree. However, children in Puerto Rico do NOT leave cookies nor milk for Santa.

Public Holidays without a set Date

First Monday in January	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr	Nacimiento de Martin Luther King, Jr. Conmemoración del Natalicio de Martin Luther King, Jr
Third Monday in February	Washington's Birthday	Día de Washington Natalicio de Washington
First Monday in September	Labor Day	Día del Trabajo
Second Monday in October	Columbus Day	Descubrimiento de América
Fourth Thursday in November	Thanksgiving Day	Acción de Gracias Día de Acción de Gracias Día del Pavo

Religious Holidays with a set Date

January 5	Three Wise Men Eve	Víspera de los Tres Reyes Magos	Traditionally, children leave a box with grass for the Three Wise Men camels and a glass of water for the Three Wise Men.
January 6	Three Wise Men	Día de los Tres Reyes Magos	Traditionally, children will find that the camels ate the grass and the Three Wise Men drank the water left for them by the kids the day before.
December 24	Christmas Eve	Nochebuena Día de Nochebuena
December 31	New Year's Eve	Año Viejo Fin de Año

Religious Holidays without a set Date

First day of Lent	Ash Wednesday	Miércoles de Ceniza
Palm Sunday through Easter	Holy Week	Semana Santa	Most schools, colleges, and universities give the complete week as a recess to students.
Sunday before Easter Sunday	Palm Sunday	Domingo de Ramos
Friday before Easter	Good Friday	Viernes Santo
The Date of Easter	Easter	Domingo de la Resurrección

Others

February 14	Valentine's Day	San Valentin Día de San Valentin
Second Sunday in May	Mother's Day	Día de las Madres
Third Sunday in June	Father's Day	Día de los Padres
October 31	Halloween	Halloween Día de las Brujas