2014 Philippine Holidays

Fellow travel bugs, time to plan your 2014 trips! Malacanang has come out with the list of declared holidays for 2014. There are several long weekends so, start planning while airlines are coming out with promotional fares.

Under Proclamation No. 655, the regular and special non-working holidays for next year include:

1. January 1 (Wednesday) - New Year's Day
2. January 31 (Friday) - Chinese New Year
3. February 25 (Tuesday) - People Power Anniversary
4. April 9 (Wednesday) - Araw ng Kagitingan
5. April 17 (Thursday) - Maundy Thursday
6. April 18 (Friday) - Good Friday
7. April 19 (Saturday) - Black Saturday
8. May 1 (Thursday) - Labor Day
9. June 12 (Thursday) - Independence Day
10. August 21 (Thursday) - Ninoy Aquino Day
11. August 25 (Monday) - National Heroes Day
12. November 1 (Saturday) - All Saints Day
13. November 30 (Sunday) - Bonifacio Day
14. December 24 (Wednesday) - Christmas Eve
15. December 25 (Thursday) - Christmas Day
16. December 26 (Friday) - Day after Christmas
17. December 30 (Tuesday) - Rizal Day
18. December 31 (Wednesday) - New Year's Eve

In addition to the above holidays, the proclamations declaring national holidays for Eid'l Fitr and Eid'l Adha will be issued after the dates are determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar.

(Source: Interaksyon.com)