Overview
- The date is an inamovible national holiday under Law 27.399, reaffirmed by the Interior Ministry.
- Buses run with reduced frequency, the subway and Premetro use Sunday hours (first trains at 8 and last until about 22 depending on the line), and all train lines follow Sunday/holiday timetables.
- Banks keep branches closed but ATMs, home banking, digital wallets, cards and transfer payments remain available.
- In Buenos Aires, metered parking is suspended, parking is allowed where weekday bans apply from 7 to 21, and weekend toll patterns include peak flows from 11–15 toward the province and 17–21 toward the city.
- Supermarkets operate normally, schools and public offices are closed, trash collection runs as usual, many families assemble the Christmas tree, and the feast traces to Pope Pius IX’s 1854 proclamation; Christmas falls on a Thursday this year and does not form a long weekend.