What are the holidays that we will have in the year 2023? And the XXL weekends for long weekends? All the details below
For iProfessional
01/01/2023 – 11:35 a.m.
January It is the first month of the year and therefore it is when Argentines are most aware of the official calendar, since it reveals all the holidays that will be in 2023.
Many choose this month to take their vacations and they are not wrong, since unlike the other months of the year, in January there are not so many holidays that can overlap with the days off from work. Furthermore, the month will not bring long weekends either, except for some workers.
Below we will tell you which are the holidays and non-working days of the whole year, as well as which will be the long weekends of 2023.
Holidays in January 2023
As we mentioned, January 2023 will be short on holidays.
He only has one holiday and it is the January 1, for the New Year of the Christian calendar, which is the one that also appears as New Year in the official Calendar of the Ministry of the Interior of the Nation.
Furthermore, the January 1 falls on a Sunday, so it will only be an immovable national holiday for those who normally provide tasks on Sundays. This means that in the event that your employer decides that you must work on that date, it will be up to you to pay them double for the day.
Apart from that, for the other workers in Argentina it will be the beginning of a year with many holidays and opportunities for rest or tourist getaways.
All holidays in 2023
All 2023 holidays are already defined for the Official Calendar
2023 will have 19 holidays between the immovable and the transferable. Moreover, the National Congress has just approved a project to transform August 17 -National Holiday for the Day of the Passage to the Immortality of General San Martín- into an immovable one, since it was moved several days in 2023 to create an end long week
Specifically, in 2023 the national holidays will be the following:
- January 1: New Year;
- February 20th: Carnival,
- February 21st: Carnival,
- March 24th: National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice;
- april 2: Veteran’s Day and those of the Fallen in the Malvinas War;
- April 7: Holy Friday
- May 1: Labor Day;
- 25 of May: May Revolution Day;
- June 17: Passage to the Immortality of General Don Martín Miguel de Güemes;
- June 20th: Passage to the Immortality of General Don Manuel Belgrano;
- July 9th: Independence Day;
- 17 of August: Passage to the Immortality of General Don José de San Martín;
- October 12 °: Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity
- November 20: National Sovereignty Day.
- December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
- December 25th: Christmas.
On these dates the holiday is for all the inhabitants of the Argentine territory equally. And in the event that an employer decides not to give the day as a rest to the employees, he must pay them double for that date, having.
What will be the holidays for tourist purposes in 2023
Others will be added to these 16 national holidays 3 days that are holidays for tourist purposes. These are the three days per year that, according to Law No. 27,399, the National Executive Power has the power to set in order to generate long weekends and thus promote tourism within the country.
Therefore, each of the days chosen as holidays for tourism purposes must coincide with Monday or Friday, so that long weekends are generated for the majority of workers in the country (it is worth noting that not all of them work Monday to Friday only).
In the case of 2023, the Executive already determined the following three dates as holidays for tourism purposes:
- friday may 26 (bridge with the holiday of Thursday May 25, Day of the May Revolution),
- Monday June 19 (bridge with the holiday of Tuesday June 20, Step to the Immortality of General Manuel Belgrano)
- friday october 13 (Long weekend, four days, due to the transfer from Thursday, October 12 -Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity- to Monday, October 16).
The measure has already been published in the Official Gazette with the signatures of the Chief of Staff, Juan Manzur, and the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro.
In this way, with 16 national holidays and 3 for tourist purposes, a total of 19 holidays will be completed in the official calendar of 2023.
Long weekends in 2023
What will be the long weekends in 2023
2023 will bring a total of 11 long weekendsof which 3 of them will have four rest days and one even five.
Long weekends this year will be as follows:
- Of Saturday 18 to Tuesday 21 Februaryfor the two Carnival holidays
- of friday March 24 to Sunday March 26because the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice falls on Friday
- Of April 7 to 9 for Easter
- Of Saturday April 29 to Monday May 1International Workers’ Day
- Of Thursday May 25 -May Revolution Day- to Sunday 29 of the same month
- Of June 17 -Path to the Immortality of General Don Martín Miguel de Güemes- to Tuesday 20 of the same month (Step to Immortality of Gral. Manuel Belgrano)
- Of Saturday August 19 to Monday 21, Passage to the Immortality of Gral. José de San Martín
- Of friday october 13 (holiday for tourist purposes) to Monday 16, for which the Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity was moved
- Of Saturday November 18 to Monday 20, National Sovereignty Day
- Of friday december 8 (holiday for the Immaculate Conception of Mary) to the sunday 10 of the same month
- Of Saturday December 23 to Monday 25 at Christmas.
Of course, in addition to these days indicated in the calendar, 2023 will have non-working days. In this case it will be 10, but some of them apply only to certain religious communities in particular.
Unlike what happens with holidays, if the employer decides to work on those days, they should not pay double shifts to employees.
