Public holidays in Uruguay

The following are public holidays in Uruguay.

Date	English name	Spanish name	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	Año Nuevo
January 6	Children's Day	Día de los Niños (Día de Reyes)
moveable in late February or early March	Carnival	Carnaval
moveable in late March or early April	Tourism Week (in place of Christian Holy week)	Semana de Turismo (formerly Semana Santa)
April 19	Landing of the 33 Patriots Day	Desembarco de los 33 Orientales
May 1	International Workers' Day	Día de los Trabajadores
May 18	Battle of Las Piedras	Batalla de las Piedras
June 19	Birthday of José Gervasio Artigas and Never Again Day	Natalicio de Artigas y Día del Nunca Más
July 18	Constitution Day	Jura de la Constitución	To commemorate the promulgation of the First Constitution of Uruguay in 1830
August 25	Independence Day	Día de la Independencia	From the Empire of Brazil in 1825
October 12	Day of the race (Columbus Day)	Día de la Raza
November 2	Deceased ones day	Día de los Difuntos
December 25	Day of the Family ( Christmas )	Día de la Familia (Navidad)

Only 5 of these holidays (January 1, May 1, July 18, August 25 and December 25) imply a mandatory paid leave for workers. Most of the other days are only observed by schools and some public sector offices.

Moveable holidays

According to Uruguayan Law 16,805 with modifications of Law 17,414, the holidays declared by law, subject to the commemoration of them, follow the following scheme (whose conmemoration as “moveable holidays”):

• If coincide on Saturday, Sunday or Monday will be observed in those days.
• If occur on Tuesday or Wednesday, will be observed on Monday immediately preceding.
• If occur on Thursday or Friday shall be observed on the Monday immediately following

This will not occur with Carnival and Tourism Week, and corresponding to January 1st and 6th, May 1st, June 19th, July 18th, August 25th, November 2nd and December 25th, which will continue watching on the day of the week that may occur, whatever the same.