Sri Lanka Calendar 2027 with Public, Bank and Mercantile Holidays

The grid is built from one list: the 25 dates in Gazette Extraordinary No. 2493/05, published on 16 June 2026 as an Order under Section 04 of the Holidays Act No. 29 of 1971. That gazette declares each date a Public and a Bank holiday for 2027. It carries two marks only, one for Public and one for Bank, and every row has both. This page reads the same data file as the public holidays calendar, so the two never disagree.

Three colours. Amber marks the 12 Full Moon Poya days. Rose marks the 8 days the Central Bank's 2027 list codes as Mercantile, which is the class that matters for shops and offices under the Shop and Office Employees Act. Blue marks the rest, which are Public and Bank only: Maha Shivarathri, Good Friday, Deepawali and two of the three Islamic feasts. The gazette has no mercantile column, so the rose set is the Central Bank's classification, not a gazette mark. No separate Department of Labour notice for 2027 was found when this page was checked.

Weeks start on Monday and Saturday and Sunday are shaded, so a holiday that joins a weekend is easy to spot. Hover or focus a coloured day to read its name. The list under each month prints the date, the gazette's English name and the Public, Bank and Mercantile flags as P, B and M. Pick a single month to see the Sinhala and Tamil names as printed on the Central Bank's Sinhala and Tamil pages.

Islamic dates. The gazette prints Id-Ul-Fitre (10 March), Id-Ul-Allah (17 May) and Milad-Un-Nabi (15 August) as fixed dates with no qualifier. Because these feasts follow the sighting of the moon, the observed day can move by one. That note is ours, and it is labelled as ours on the page. Nothing here is a projection of our own; where the gazette and the Central Bank list differ in spelling, the gazette spelling is used for English and the Central Bank text for Sinhala and Tamil.

Computed figures. The weekend count, the long weekends and the bridge days in the examples below are computed from the gazette weekdays and the Gregorian calendar. The gazette does not print them. A long weekend here means three or more consecutive days off with no leave taken; a bridge day is the one working day that joins a Tuesday or Thursday holiday to the weekend.

The PDF. The A4 file is rendered from the same grids by a script in the repository, one quarter per page, so it carries the same dates as this page. If the file is missing for any reason the button changes to Print or save as PDF, which prints the on-page grids with a print stylesheet. The .ics download emits one all-day event per holiday following RFC 5545, with the Sinhala and Tamil names and the gazette citation in the description.

Searching in Sinhala or Tamil? This is the 2027 නිවාඩු දින, 2027 පෝය දින and 2027 රජයේ නිවාඩු calendar (2027 rajaye niwadu), and the 2027 விடுமுறை நாட்கள், 2027 அரசு விடுமுறை நாட்கள் and 2027 பொங்கல் விடுமுறை நாட்கள் list. Thai Pongal 2027 is Friday 15 January. The school term calendar is set separately by the Ministry of Education and is not on this page.

Each example is computed from the gazette rows above. You can check any of them against the grid by hand.

• Gazette Extraordinary No. 2493/05 of 16 June 2026: Public and Bank Holidays for the Year 2027 (English PDF, Department of Government Printing)
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka: Bank Holidays for 2027 (Bank, Public and Mercantile codes)
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka: 2027 holidays in Sinhala
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka: 2027 holidays in Tamil
• Holidays Act No. 29 of 1971

The 2027 rows were compared with the gazette on 2026-11-05. The gazette link is a Department of Government Printing file proxy whose key carries a timestamp, so it is re-checked at each review. The Central Bank's Sinhala page misprints Maha Shivarathri as 6 February; the gazette and the English page say 6 March, which is what this calendar shows.