Holiday calendar in Mexico for 2024

As soon as the new year begins, we will tell you what the holiday calendar in Mexico is for 2024 so that you can have better organization and planning.

It’s amazing that this year, like every six years, the country will celebrate a change of executive power, so Mexicans will have another day of mandatory rest.

The difference now is that this day will not be December 1, but October 1, 2024, due to the reform of the General Law on Electoral Institutions and Procedures (LGIPE), which came into force on January 1, 2023.

Holidays 2024 in Mexico

Holy Week 2023

Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are observed on March 28 and 29, 2024 in Mexico, but they are not considered mandatory rest days under Federal Labor Law. This does not mean that some companies and organizations in the private and public sectors provide these days to employees. Just keep in mind that neither are May 5 (Battle of Puebla), October 12 (Columbus Day), November 2 (Day of the Dead) and December 12 (Virgin of Guadalupe Day).

Several reasons to holiday in Mexico

Every year on February 5, Mexico celebrates the anniversary of the Mexican Constitution. The origin is due to the fact that it was on this day, but in 1917, that the current version of the Political Constitution was promulgated, which came into force in May of the same year. The document was signed in Queretaro regarding the appointment of General Venustiano Carranza as president of the country.

Benito Juarez’s birthday is dedicated to the president, who was born on March 21, 1806 in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca. Also known as Benemerito de las Americas, his fight against the French invasion became “a watershed of great change in Mexican history through the Constitution of 1857 and the War of Reform,” according to the Mexican government. .

Independence Day recalls the War of Independence, which began in the early morning of September 16, 1810, when the priest Miguel Hidalgo gave the Cry of Dolores (by ringing church bells), and ended on September 27, 1827, with the triumphal entry of the Trigarante Army under the command of Agustin de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero. Mexico City.

Finally, Mexican Revolution Day commemorates when Francisco I. Madero proclaimed the Plan of San Luis on November 20, 1910, which encouraged Mexicans to take up arms against the government of Porfirio Díaz, who remained in power for 36 years.