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Ecuador : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months

  • Currency: Dollar (USD)
  • Internet domain: .ec - Telephone code: +593 - International dialing code: 00- GMT offset (ECT): -5 (DST: no)
  • Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
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    Wednesday march 6, 2024Mid-term holiday (beginning) (Sierra & Amazonia)School holidays
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    Monday march 11, 2024Mid-term holiday (end) (Sierra & Amazonia)School holidays
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    Friday march 29, 2024Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Friday april 12, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Monday april 29, 2024Beginning of school year (coastal regions)School holidays
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    Friday may 3, 2024Labor DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Friday may 24, 2024Battle of Pichincha CelebrationSecular holiday
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    Friday june 7, 2024End of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)School holidays
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    Sunday june 16, 2024Fathers' Daycards/flowers
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    Friday july 26, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday august 7, 2024Mid-term holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Friday august 9, 2024Independence DayNational Day
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    Saturday august 10, 2024Independence DayNational Day
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    Monday august 12, 2024Mid-term holiday (end)School holidays
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    Monday september 2, 2024Beginning of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)School holidays
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    Mid-term holiday (beginning) (Sierra & Amazonia)

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    Wednesday march 6, 2024
    School holidays :

    Mid-term holiday (end) (Sierra & Amazonia)

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    Monday march 11, 2024
    School holidays :

    Good Friday

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    Friday march 29, 2024
    Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.

    Regional holiday

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    Friday april 12, 2024
    Secular holiday : Foundation of Cuenca in Cuenca only

    Beginning of school year (coastal regions)

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    Monday april 29, 2024
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    Labor Day

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    Friday may 3, 2024
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    Mothers' Day

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    Sunday may 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    Battle of Pichincha Celebration

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    Friday may 24, 2024
    Secular holiday : Celebrates the Spanish defeat in 1822

    End of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)

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    Friday june 7, 2024
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    Fathers' Day

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    Sunday june 16, 2024
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    Regional holiday

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    Friday july 26, 2024
    Secular holiday : Foundation Day - The foundation of Guayaquil was a process of the Spanish conquest in the coastal region of Ecuador. After several transfers and conflicts with native inhabitants of pre-Columbian cultures, the city of Santiago de Guayaquil was finally founded. The conquest took place between 1534 and 1547. in Guayaquil only

    Mid-term holiday (beginning)

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    Wednesday august 7, 2024
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    Independence Day

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    Friday august 9, 2024
    Secular holiday : Celebrates the first uprising against Spanish rule in 1809

    Independence Day

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    Saturday august 10, 2024
    Secular holiday : Celebrates the first uprising against Spanish rule in 1809

    Mid-term holiday (end)

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    Monday august 12, 2024
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    Beginning of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)

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    Monday september 2, 2024
    School holidays : Applies to Quito