A March that carries three
Twelve months of 2027, South African public holidays marked
The 2027 year on one sheet, South Africa's twelve public holidays marked along with the two Mondays the Act adds. PDF at exact page size, plus PNG, SVG, XLSX, DOCX and ICS.
The rest of the run
The other country
Without holidays
- Days marked
- 12 public holidays
- March 2027
- Three of the twelve, plus an added Monday
- Mondays added
- 22 March and 27 December
- At a weekend
- Four of the twelve
March carries three of the twelve
Human Rights Day is a Sunday in 2027, on 21 March, so Monday 22 March becomes a public holiday as well. Good Friday follows on the 26th and Family Day on Monday the 29th. Those two are the only days on the list not tied to fixed dates; they are set from the Easter date, which in 2027 is 28 March. No other month in the year carries as many.
December shows both halves of the rule inside one weekend. Christmas Day is a Saturday, 25 December, and stays a Saturday: the Public Holidays Act 36 of 1994 has no Saturday rule. Day of Goodwill is the Sunday, 26 December, and the Act makes the Monday following a public holiday too, so 27 December is marked. Two consecutive weekend days, two different outcomes.
Four of the twelve meet a weekend altogether: the two Sundays that add Mondays, Christmas Day on its Saturday, and Workers’ Day on Saturday 1 May, which adds nothing either. February, July, October and November carry no public holiday.
A public holiday can be moved or added by proclamation; the sheet draws the pattern set by the Act and not any such announcement. It is the national list, computed from the statute, and not a description of what a particular employer closes for.
Printing it
The PDF carries a real page box, so A4 prints at 210 × 297 mm and Letter at 8.5 × 11 inches. Print at 100% rather than fit to page. A5 and A3 are on the paper control as well, portrait or landscape, with the week starting Sunday or Monday.
Marks are black, not coloured, so a mono print keeps them. A twelve-month sheet marks the days without naming them; a single month prints the names beneath the grid.