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Honduras bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, 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.

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26 Mar 2012 (La Tribuna-Tegucigalpa) A bill has been introduced in Honduras' parliament which would create another new annual non-working public holiday in Honduras on October 29 to commemorate the Day of Chinese Culture (Día de la Cultura China). • 14 Mar 2012 (La Prensa Libre-Tegucigalpa) The President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, has once again approved the declaration of the entire upcoming Holy Week (April 2-8, 2012) as public holidays for Honduras' public sector employees. • 08 Mar 2012 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) Honduras' Legislative Assembly (Congreso Nacional) has indicated that it will approve last month's presidential request that February 3 be declared a new annual non-working public holiday in Honduras to coincide with the Aniversario del Hallazgo de la Virgen de Suyapa (the anniversary of the discovery of the Vigin of Suyapa, Honduras' patron saint). • 04 Feb 2012 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) The President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, has announced that he would ask the Legislative Assembly (Congreso Nacional) to declare February 3 as a new annual non-working public holiday in Honduras to coincide with the Día de la Virgen de Suyapa, Honduras' patron saint. • 30 Sep 2011 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) The government of Honduras has officially announced that all 3 of the upcoming October public holidays will either occur on or be moved to the nearest Monday. • 14 Sep 2011 (La Tribuna-Tegucigalpa) Honduras' Secretary of State of the Interior (Secretario de Estado en los Despachos del Interior y Población), Áfrico Madrid, has issued a statement ruling-out the declaration of an additional non-working bridge public holiday on Friday, September 16, 2011. • 05 Jun 2011 (La Prensa-Tegucigalpa) Late last night, the government of Honduras reversed its earlier decision to cancel the upcoming, annual, weeklong holidays for schools and the educational system. • 03 Jun 2011 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) Honduras' Minister of Education, Alejandro Ventura, has announced that the government of Honduras had decided to cancel the upcoming, annual, weeklong holidays for schools and the educational system. • 17 Apr 2011 (La Tribuna-Tegucigalpa) The Honduran Banks Association (Asociación Hondureña de Instituciones Bancarias-Ahiba) has announced that banks in Honduras would exceptionally be closed on Holy Wednesday, April 20, 2011. • 12 Apr 2011 (El Heraldo-Tegucigalpa) The government of Honduras has officialized the declaration of a week-long, Holy Week, public holidays for Honduras' public sector. • 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). • Honduras International Codes HN and HND (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .hn (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Honduras information and news: 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 (Honduras maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Honduras), and Wikipedia (includes Honduras commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

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 2012 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 worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.