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Cuba: Essential Destination Advice

Cuba is a unique and very special destination. However, the service levels can be different from what we experience in the UK and it is very important that clients approach their visit to the Caribbean recognising this fact. Our staff will be more than happy to answer your questions on this matter.

When are public holidays in Cuba?

Festivals and local celebrations can rate as local public holidays as well as the Cuban national holidays. Carnival is celebrated in Havana and Santiago in July, but other towns may hold their carnivals in January or February. Please note celebrations can be cancelled or altered according to local restrictions in place at the time.

*January 1,2	Anniversary of the Revolution
January 28	Birth of Jose Marti
February 24	Start of the 1895 Revolution
March 13	Commemoration of the attack on the Presidential Palace
April 4	Young Communists’ Day
April 19	Victory of the Bay of Pigs
*May 1	Workers’ Day
May 17	Country Workers’ Day
*July 25,26,27	Commemoration of the storming of the Moncada Barracks
July 30	Commemoration of the Martyrs of the Revolution
September 28	Anniversary of the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution
October 8	Che Guevara’s Anniversary
*October 10	Start of the War of Independence
November 27	Student Martyrs Day
December 2	Landing of the ‘Granma’ yacht
December 7	Death of Antonio Maceo

* = Denotes full public holidays.