When is All Saints’ Day?
In 2026, All Saints’ Day falls on Monday, November 2, 2026. It is classified here as a Monegasque public holiday.
History of All Saints’ Day
All Saints’ Day is Monaco’s legal holiday for the Catholic feast honouring all saints. Its ecclesiastical date is November 1, but the operative paid-holiday date moves to Monday when November 1 falls on Sunday. The official 2026 circular therefore lists Sunday, November 1 and explicitly reports the holiday to Monday, November 2. The guide’s date logic follows that legal calendar rather than incorrectly leaving the paid closure on Sunday.
The feast is closely associated with remembrance of the dead and visits to Monaco Cemetery, although the church commemorates All Souls on November 2. Families may clean graves, place flowers and attend Mass or cemetery prayers. The municipal cemetery maintains public opening hours and provides tools for locating graves. When the legal Monday coincides with All Souls, as in 2026, the two religious meanings meet on the paid day without becoming two separate leave entitlements.
Monaco’s Law No. 800 makes the legal holidays in Law No. 798 compulsory paid non-working days for employees, subject to the law’s stated exceptions. Payment is also protected when the date meets an employee’s weekly rest day or a day normally not worked. The annual Labour Directorate circular supplies the operative calendar and reports a fixed holiday falling on Sunday to Monday; it does not create a general Saturday-to-Monday transfer.
How All Saints’ Day is observed
A legal paid holiday for November 1; when the feast falls on Sunday, Monaco’s annual circular reports the paid holiday to Monday.
Traditions of All Saints’ Day
Cemetery visits
Families visit Monaco Cemetery to tend graves, leave flowers and remember relatives during the All Saints and All Souls period.
Mass and prayer
Catholic churches celebrate All Saints, while prayers for the dead continue into All Souls’ Day on the following calendar date.
Grave preparation
Monaco households may clean family memorials and arrange chrysanthemums or other flowers before the cemetery visits around early November.
Dates and observance rules are checked against the official Monaco official paid-holidays circular. Private-sector arrangements and essential services may follow separate schedules.
History sources: Journal de Monaco: 2026 paid public-holiday calendar, Legimonaco: Law No. 800 on legal public holidays, Mairie de Monaco: municipal cemetery information, Encyclopaedia Britannica: the Christian liturgical year.
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