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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Guam

The list of Guam bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2009, 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 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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17 Dec 2008 (Pacific Daily News-Chamorro) Guam's Governor, Felix Camacho, has announced that Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas, will be a government of Guam holiday (aka. GovGuam Holiday). • 02 Nov 2008 (Pacific Daily News) The Government of Guam (aka. GovGuam) has confirmed that Guam's public sector employees will have a day in lieu public holiday tomorrow, Monday, November 3, 2008, to compensate the fact that, in 2008, the All Souls' Day public holiday falls on a Sunday. • 19 Sep 2008 (Pacific Daily News) The Guam Election Commission (GEC) has asked Governor Felix Camacho and lawmakers to make the upcoming November 4 U.S. General Election a local government holiday (aka. GovGuam holiday). • 26 Apr 2008 (Pacific Daily News) Lawmakers, yesterday, overrode the veto of Governor Felix Camacho hence adding the the third Monday of January as a new "GovGuam holiday" (public holiday limited to civil servants) in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. • 20 Dec 2007 (KUAM News) Governor Felix Camacho signed Executive Order 2007-21 declaring Monday, December 24, 2007, a one-off bridge public holiday for the Government of Guam. Many private sector businesses are expected to follow the government. • 04 Dec 2007 (Marianas Variety) Next Friday, December 7, Guam government employees will have the day off in observance of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Our Lady of Camarin Day, or Santa Marian Kamalen, the patron saint of Guam and the Northern Marianas, whose celebration will occur on Saturday December 8. • 03 Jan 2005 (30th Guam Legislature) The house bill "An Act To Amend §1000 Of Chapter 10 Of Title 1, Guam Code Annotated, Relative To Following The Practice Of The Federal Government For Federal Holidays Falling On Saturdays And Sundays" was signed into law by the Governor of Guam, late last week. • 22 Dec 2004 (30th Guam Legislature) The Guam Legislature has passed Public Law 27-153 which amends §1000 Of Chapter 10 Of Title 1, Guam Code Annotated, and purports to put and end to the public sector practice of taking the day off the day before or after a public holiday that falls on a weekend. • 15 Dec 2004 (GuamPDN + PINA Nius) Governor Felix Camacho will sign an executive order declaring Friday December 24, 2004, and Friday Dececember 31, 2004, GovGuam holidays for this year only, as both Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a weekend this year. • 16 Dec 2002 (Guam Legislative Secretary) Guam Legislative Bill No. 343, "An Act To Repeal And Reenact Section 1000, Repeal Section 1001 Of Title 1 And To Add Section 4109.5 Of Title 4 Of The Guam Code Annotated Relative To The Reduction Of The Number Of Government Of Guam Holidays", became law over the past weekend, without the Governor's signature. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Guam public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: The official public holidays in Guam are regulated by articles 1000, 1011, and 1025 of the Guam Labor Code of 2000. • GovGuam Holidays: Basing itself on Public Law 27-153, the government of Guam, up to and including 2008, continues to follow the practice of giving civil servants a day in lieu (called GovGuam Holiday) for any public holiday that occurs on a weekend. This despite the passage of laws in 2002 and 2004, which specifically were meant to stop this practice. • Presidents' Day is listed in many sources as a public holiday in Guam, but in fact it is not even a GovGuam holiday, let alone a general public holiday. • Labor Day (in September) is not listed in the official laws that enumerate the official public holidays of Guam, but it is nonetheless observe as such. • The private sector and banks do not follow the practice of giving a day in lieu for public holiday that fall on a weekend. It used to be the case, according to former Government Code § 201, but this was repealed by P.L. 26- 157:7 as a cost-cutting measure. • Elections held in November every two or four years are subject to being declared a public holiday by the Governor of Guam. • Bank Holidays: as banks in Guam are almost all US banks, usually based in Hawai, they will usually close on the dates of most US public holidays. For example, Martin Luther King's Birthday is not a public holiday in Guam, but all the banks we surveyed close on this day. The same is generally true of most other US public holidays. • Santa Marian Kamalen: On Dec 2, 2002, a cost saving measure for the Government of Guam was enacted Public Law 26-157 which trims the number of govt of Guam holidays from 16 to 10. Eliminated were Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Presidents Day, Discovery Day, Good Friday and The Feast of the Immaculate Conception Our Lady of Camarin Day as holidays in Guam. In face of pressure from constituents, including legislator's mothers and family and an impending typhoon "Ponsonga", lawmakers on Dec 3, 2002 voted to recall Unpingco's bill from the session voting file and changed the name of the holiday "Remembrance Day" back to Our Lady of Camarin Day. On Dec 8 2002, on the Lady of Camarin anniversary, one of the most devastating typhoon Ponsonga [a Korean word for a little flower] landed on Guam . • Guam International Codes GU and GUM (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .gu (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Guam information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Guam maps, demographics and economic statistics), and Wikipedia (includes Guam commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Guam, 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 2009 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Guam, 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 Guam, before planning any trip to Guam. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.