2012 Philippine Holiday Calendar

Lots of long weekends to come this 2012!
Time to plan vacations and take advantage of promo fares and travel packages.  Yeah!

Here's the list of holidays in the Philippines for 2012 as declared under Presidential Proclamation 295:

Regular Holidays

New Year’s Day – January 1 (Sunday)
Maundy Thursday- April 5
Good Friday – April 6
Araw ng Kagitingan – April 9 (Monday)
Labor Day -May 1 (Tuesday)
Independence Day – June 12 (Tuesday)
National Heroes Day – August 27 (Last Monday of August)
Bonifacio Day – November 30 (Friday)
Christmas Day – December 25 (Tuesday)
Rizal Day – December 30

Special (Non-Working) Days

Chinese New Year – January 23 (Monday)
Ninoy Aquino Day – August 21 (Tuesday)
All Saints Day – November 1 (Thursday)
Additional special (non-working) day – November 2 (Friday)
Last Day of the Year- December 31 (Monday

Special Holiday (for all schools)

EDSA Revolution Anniversary – February 25 (Saturday)

Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha
(Tentative dates only for now, official dates to be announced later)

Eid-al-Fitr – August 20 (Monday)
Eid-al-Adha – October 26 (Friday)

Given all the holidays above, the following are the Long Weekends we can all look forward to:

• January 21-23, 2012 (Chinese New Year)
• April 5-9, 2012 (Holy Week and Araw ng Kagitingan)
• April 28-29 (April 30) May 1, 2012 (Labor Day)
• August 18-21, 2012 (Eid-al-Fitr and Ninoy Aquino Day)
• August 25-27, 2012 (National Heroes Day)
• October 26-28, 2012 (Eid-al-Adha)
• November 1-4 (All Saints’ Day)
• November 30-Dec 2 (Bonifacio Day)
• December 29-Jan 1 (New Year)