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Jamaica

Accurate, up-to-date public holidays, bank holidays, and observances in Jamaica for 2025 ready to be integrated into your application.

The island country of Jamaica is located in the Caribbean Sea. In 1494, Christopher Columbus claimed the island for Spain until 1655. When Great Britain overtook the island it was renamed to Jamaica, and set up plantations and began exporting sugar. With the end of slavery in 1838, the British used indentured labor workers on the plantations to continue exporting sugar. On August 6, 1962 Jamaica became independent from Great Britain and was founded as a country. Jamaica is famous for diving and snorkeling along their coral reefs and is the birthplace of reggae music and the Rastafarian religion.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
January 1st Wednesday New Year's Day
March 5th Wednesday Ash Wednesday
March 20th Thursday March Equinox
April 18th Friday Good Friday Long weekend.
April 20th Sunday Easter
April 21st Monday Easter Monday Long weekend.
May 1st Thursday Labor Day
May 11th Sunday Mother's Day
June 15th Sunday Father's Day
June 21st Saturday June Solstice
August 1st Friday Empancipation Day Long weekend.
August 6th Wednesday Independence Day
September 22nd Monday September Equinox Long weekend.
October 16th Thursday National Heroes' Day
December 21st Sunday December Solstice
December 24th Wednesday Christmas Eve
December 25th Thursday Christmas Day
December 26th Friday Boxing Day Long weekend.
December 31st Wednesday New Year's Eve
Public holidays (national, legal, government, civic, etc) are denoted in bold.
Holiday data for far-reaching years is subject to change due to laws and government decrees.
Long weekends are based on non-working days and not Saturday and Sunday explicitly.

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To retrieve this list of holidays, simply make a GET request to /v1/holidays:
GET /v1/holidays
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$ curl -G -d country="JM" -d year="2025" -d pretty
-d key="__YOUR_API_KEY__" "https://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays"
import "github.com/joshtronic/go-holidayapi"
hapi := holidayapi.NewV1("__YOUR_API_KEY__")
holidays, err := hapi.Holidays(map[string]interface{}{
  "country": "JM",
  "year": "2025",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'JM',
  year: '2025',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'JM',
  'year' => '2025',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "JM"
$Body.year = "2025"
$Url = "https://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays"
$Result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Url -Body $Body
$Result.holidays
import holidayapi
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = holidayapi.v1(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'JM',
  'year': '2025',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'JM',
  'year': '2025',
})