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Emancipation Day

August 2027
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🏪 What's open

  • Banks Closed
  • Government offices Closed
  • Schools Closed
  • Shops Varies
  • Restaurants Varies
  • Public transit Reduced
  • Stock market Closed
  • Post office Closed

🛋️ Long weekend potential

3-Day Block
SAT 31 Weekend
SUN 01 Weekend
MON 02 Holiday

3-day weekend (July 31 – August 2)

📣 Traveler notes

Grenada is a Caribbean island known as the 'Spice Isle' for its production of nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, and cocoa. The archipelago consists of three large islands and several smaller ones located between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.

  • The primary population is concentrated in the southwest of the main island.

About this holiday

Emancipation Day commemorates the freedom of enslaved African descendants, a historical milestone observed in several former European colonies across the West Indies and parts of the United States.