Is there a collection on Labour Day Monday?

Yes. The City maintains all its collections — garbage, recycling, food waste, green waste, bulky items — on every statutory holiday of the year except December 25 and January 1. Put your bins out as usual.

And on Thanksgiving, Easter, June 24 or July 1?

Same rule: collections run as usual everywhere in Montréal, with no shift. The only holidays that change anything are Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

What happens on December 25 and January 1?

In most boroughs the collection on those two days is moved — up to December 24 and 31, or back to December 26 and January 2 — and the rule varies by borough and by material. The City publishes the list in December; enter your address to see what your sector writes in the open data.

Are écocentres open on public holidays?

No. The municipal écocentres are closed on statutory holidays, on top of their Monday closure. Curbside collections, on the other hand, do run.

Waste collection on public holidays in Montréal: Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas…

Collections run on every public holiday except December 25 and January 1. Enter your address to see what your sector publishes for those two dates.

Next holiday season's exceptions aren't published yet: the City loads them into Info-Collectes in December. The rest of the year the rule is simple — collections run on every public holiday.

The answer fits in one sentence, and it is the City’s own: “Household garbage, bulky item, recycling, food waste, green waste and dead leaf collections are maintained everywhere.” It holds for every statutory holiday of the year — Easter, National Patriots’ Day, June 24, July 1, Labour Day, Thanksgiving. If your collection falls on a Monday holiday, put your bins out as usual. The City’s public-holidays page repeats it, holiday by holiday.

The only two exceptions are December 25 and January 1. On those days most boroughs move the collection — up to December 24 and 31, or back to December 26 and January 2 — and not all the same way, nor for every material. The City publishes those changes each December, borough by borough, on the same page. A few sectors also write them into the Secteurs Info-collectes open dataset; that is what the table below gathers, and what the address lookup shows for your sector.

Two footnotes. Écocentres, unlike collections, are closed on statutory holidays. And the rule is about statutory holidays, not a borough’s one-off notices — the open data is not a live feed.

Public holidays in the next 12 months

Per the City's public-holidays page. A Monday holiday changes nothing about your collection day.

Date	Holiday	Collections
Monday, October 12, 2026	Thanksgiving	As usual, everywhere
Friday, December 25, 2026	Christmas Day	Moved in most boroughs — details below
Friday, January 1, 2027	New Year’s Day	Moved in most boroughs — details below
Friday, March 26, 2027	Good Friday	As usual, everywhere
Monday, March 29, 2027	Easter Monday	As usual, everywhere
Monday, May 24, 2027	National Patriots’ Day	As usual, everywhere
Thursday, June 24, 2027	Fête nationale du Québec	As usual, everywhere
Thursday, July 1, 2027	Canada Day	As usual, everywhere
Monday, September 6, 2027	Labour Day	As usual, everywhere

Sectors, across all collections, publishing a December 25 / January 1 exception: 9 of 545
Boroughs where at least one sector publishes one: 7 of 19
Collections concerned in the dataset: Household garbage · Recyclables · Food residues · Organics
Last published season: 2025 holiday season

December 25 and January 1, sector by sector

By borough, from the sectors' exception text in the City's open dataset. Only a handful of sectors write their exceptions there — the City's page lists many more. Enter your address above for what your sector publishes.

Borough	What the sector publishes
L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève	Recyclables: moved to Friday, December 26, 2025 and Friday, January 2, 20262025 data
LaSalle3 collection sectors	Household garbage: Collection will not take place on Fridays December 25, 2026 and January 1, 2027. The collections have been rescheduled for WEDNESDAYS December 23 and December 30, 2026. · Recyclables: moved to Monday, December 28, 2026 and Monday, January 4, 2027 · Food residues: Collection will not take place on Fridays December 25, 2026 and January 1, 2027. The collections have been rescheduled for WEDNESDAYS December 23 and December 30, 2026.Dates vary between sectors within the borough.
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal	Organics: moved to Friday, December 26, 2025 and Friday, January 2, 20262025 data
Outremont	Food residues: moved to Friday, December 26, 2025 and Friday, January 2, 20262025 data
Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie	Household garbage: moved to Friday, December 26, 2025 and Friday, January 2, 20262025 data
Saint-Léonard	Household garbage: moved up to Wednesday, December 24, 2025 and Wednesday, December 31, 20252025 data
Verdun	Recyclables: moved to Tuesday, December 26, 2023 and Tuesday, January 2, 20242023 data

Frequently asked questions

Is there a collection on Labour Day Monday?: Yes. The City maintains all its collections — garbage, recycling, food waste, green waste, bulky items — on every statutory holiday of the year except December 25 and January 1. Put your bins out as usual.
And on Thanksgiving, Easter, June 24 or July 1?: Same rule: collections run as usual everywhere in Montréal, with no shift. The only holidays that change anything are Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
What happens on December 25 and January 1?: In most boroughs the collection on those two days is moved — up to December 24 and 31, or back to December 26 and January 2 — and the rule varies by borough and by material. The City publishes the list in December; enter your address to see what your sector writes in the open data.
Are écocentres open on public holidays?: No. The municipal écocentres are closed on statutory holidays, on top of their Monday closure. Curbside collections, on the other hand, do run.