Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day
March 21 Good Friday
March 24 Easter Monday
May 5 Labour Day
May 12 Whit Monday
July 7 Caricom Day
August 4 Carnival Monday
August 5 Carnival Tuesday
November 1 Independence Day
December 9 National Heroes Day
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 26 Boxing day

Weekend Saturday, Sunday

You should know:

There are Carnival Events which may make it difficult to work during the week preceding Carnival. Barbuda has a smaller carnival in June, the "Caribana". There is a Jazz Festival, usually in late May and a Hot Air Balloon festival at the end of October.