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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for El Salvador

The list of El Salvador 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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04 Sep 2008 (Diario Oficial-San Salvador) Earlier this week, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed Legislative Decree 704 of 1 September 2008, giving the public sector teachers a special holiday on the day after the September 15 Independence Day. • 20 Dec 2007 (Diario Oficial de El Salvador) Legislative decree 519 of December 20, 2007, makes Friday, May 2, 2008, a one-off bridge public holiday for all civil servants in El Salvador. This additional public holiday will be compensated by Saturday, April 26, 2008, being a regular working day. • 01 May 2007 (elsalvador.com) El Salvador's assembly has been asked to revise the public sector's public holidays law by enshrining the concept of bridge holidays begun on a case-by-case basis this year. • 20 Apr 2007 (El Diario de Hoy) The El Salvador Legislative Assembly approved a bill which gives civil servants Monday April 30, 2007, as a bridge public holiday, and extends their weekend for 4 days, from Saturday April 28, 2007 to the public holiday of Tuesday May 1, 2007. • 22 Feb 2007 (International Herald Tribune + The Associated Press) The government declared three days of mourning, following the grisly killings of Eduardo D'Abuisson and two other little-known Salvadoran politicians. • 31 Dec 2006 (Diario Oficial-San Salvador) El Salvador, through the Decreto Legislativo 177 de 20 Diciembre 2006, has declared January 16, 2007, Día de la Paz as a fully-paid public holiday, for both the private and public sectors. • 04 Apr 1999 (Diario Oficial-San Salvador) El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed the Decreto Legislativo 629 of May 27, 1999, declaring both May 31 and June 1, 1999, as public sector holidays on the occasion of the presidential passation of power. • 27 Apr 1996 (La Nación-San Salvador) El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, by a vote of 50 to 34, approved the "Reformas a la Ley de Asuetos, Vacaciones y Licencias de los Empleados Públicos", an amendment to the Labour Code that removes 3 public sector holidays from El Salvador's official list of public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the El Salvador 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 list and dates of official public holidays in Bolivia are regulated by the Decreto Legislativo No. 685, de fecha 20 de octubre del año 1993 (Diario Oficial No. 223, Tomo 321, de fecha 1 de diciembre 1993) as amended by the Decreto No. 177 of December 7, 2006 (Diario Oficial. - San Salvador, 20 de Diciembre de 2006). • Día Nacional de la Paz was a one-off public holiday in 1992 and then it was declared an annual public holiday through Legislative Decrees 177 and 196 of December 2006, but only for 2007. • Día de la República: was declared to be celebrated every year on February 18, by Decree 537 (Declaran el 18 de Febrero de cada año “Día de la República") but it is not a public holiday. • El Salvador International Codes SV and SLV (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .sv (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of El Salvador information and news: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (El Salvador central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (El Salvador maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in El Salvador), and Wikipedia (includes El Salvador commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

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