Planning for next year’s vacation already? Below are the Regular Holidays, Special (Non-Working) Days, and Special Holiday (For All Schools) for the Year 2012 based on Proclamation No. 295 as released by Malacañang on November 24, 2011.
For those who are looking forward to some long weekends, based on this list - the longest of these long weekends is five days — from April 5 (Maundy Thursday) to April 9 (Araw ng Kagitingan).
List of Regular and Special Philippine Holidays 2012
- January 1 (Sunday) – New Year’s Day
- January 23 (Monday) – Chinese New Year
- February 25 (Saturday) – EDSA Revolution Anniversary
- April 5 (Thursday) – Maundy Thursday
- April 6 (Friday) – Good Friday
- April 9 (Monday) – Araw ng Kagitingan
- May 1 (Tuesday) – Labor Day
- June 12 (Tuesday) – Independence Day
- August 21 (Tuesday) – Ninoy Aquino Day
- August 27 (Monday) – National Heroes Day
- November 1 (Thursday) – All Saints Day
- November 2 (Friday) – Additional special (non-working) day
- November 30 (Friday) – Bonifacio Day
- December 25 (Tuesday) – Christmas Day
- December 30 (Sunday) – Rizal Day
- December 31 (Monday) – Last Day of the Year
The first special non-working holiday will be on Jan. 23 (Monday) for the celebration of Chinese New Year. I think this is the first time the Chinese New Year is declared as non-working holiday.
The EDSA Revolution Anniversary was declared a special holiday for all schools.
Accordingly, November 2 may be declared as a special (non-working) day without detriment to public interest.
For our Muslim brothers:
“Proclamations declaring national holidays for the observance of Eid’l Fitr and Eidul Adha shall hereafter be issued after the approximate dates of the Islamic holidays have been determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations,” the proclamation said.
