Get Official Public Holidays in Colombia for a Given Year
Source:R/get_colombia_holidays.R
get_colombia_holidays.RdRetrieves the list of official public holidays in Colombia for a specific year using the Nager.Date public holidays API. This function returns a tibble containing the date of the holiday, the name in the local language (Spanish), and the English name. It is useful for academic, planning, and data analysis purposes. The information is retrieved directly from the Nager.Date API and reflects the current status of holidays for the requested year. The field names returned are consistent with the API structure.
Source
Data obtained from the Nager.Date API: https://date.nager.at/
Value
A tibble with the following columns:
date: Date of the holiday (classDate)local_name: Holiday name in the local language (Spanish)name: Holiday name in English
Examples
get_colombia_holidays(2024)
#> # A tibble: 18 × 3
#> date local_name name
#> <date> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024-01-01 Año Nuevo New Year's Day
#> 2 2024-01-08 Día de los Reyes Magos Epiphany
#> 3 2024-03-25 Día de San José Saint Joseph's Day
#> 4 2024-03-28 Jueves Santo Maundy Thursday
#> 5 2024-03-29 Viernes Santo Good Friday
#> 6 2024-05-01 Primero de Mayo Labour Day
#> 7 2024-05-13 Ascensión del señor Ascension Day
#> 8 2024-06-03 Corpus Christi Corpus Christi
#> 9 2024-06-10 Sagrado Corazón Sacred Heart
#> 10 2024-07-01 San Pedro y San Pablo Saint Peter and Saint…
#> 11 2024-07-20 Declaracion de la Independencia de Colombia Declaration of Indepe…
#> 12 2024-08-07 Batalla de Boyacá Battle of Boyacá
#> 13 2024-08-19 La Asunción Assumption of Mary
#> 14 2024-10-14 Día de la Raza Columbus Day
#> 15 2024-11-04 Dia de los Santos All Saints’ Day
#> 16 2024-11-11 Independencia de Cartagena Independence of Carta…
#> 17 2024-12-08 La Inmaculada Concepción Immaculate Conception
#> 18 2024-12-25 Navidad Christmas Day
get_colombia_holidays(2025)
#> # A tibble: 18 × 3
#> date local_name name
#> <date> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2025-01-01 Año Nuevo New Year's Day
#> 2 2025-01-06 Día de los Reyes Magos Epiphany
#> 3 2025-03-24 Día de San José Saint Joseph's Day
#> 4 2025-04-17 Jueves Santo Maundy Thursday
#> 5 2025-04-18 Viernes Santo Good Friday
#> 6 2025-05-01 Primero de Mayo Labour Day
#> 7 2025-06-02 Ascensión del señor Ascension Day
#> 8 2025-06-23 Corpus Christi Corpus Christi
#> 9 2025-06-30 San Pedro y San Pablo Saint Peter and Saint…
#> 10 2025-06-30 Sagrado Corazón Sacred Heart
#> 11 2025-07-20 Declaracion de la Independencia de Colombia Declaration of Indepe…
#> 12 2025-08-07 Batalla de Boyacá Battle of Boyacá
#> 13 2025-08-18 La Asunción Assumption of Mary
#> 14 2025-10-13 Día de la Raza Columbus Day
#> 15 2025-11-03 Dia de los Santos All Saints’ Day
#> 16 2025-11-17 Independencia de Cartagena Independence of Carta…
#> 17 2025-12-08 La Inmaculada Concepción Immaculate Conception
#> 18 2025-12-25 Navidad Christmas Day