Austria public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and is not moved; Saint Stephen's Day falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Austria has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Austria, one fewer than in 2025.

Austria has no statutory substitute days: a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday, so the following Monday stays a working day in these counts. Good Friday, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are bank holidays, and many employers close on 24 and 31 December; they are listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

13 dates are counted as non-working in Austria in 2026; 10 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

3 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. They are not counted as non-working days here.

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 18 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 21 working days in December, 3 holidays

Long weekends in 2026

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 3 days Saturday 4 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 23 May 2026 to Monday 25 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 24 October 2026 to Monday 26 October 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

Try any budget from 1 to 30 days in the leave planner

Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Austria

Austria has thirteen public holidays, set by the Arbeitsruhegesetz, the law on weekly and public-holiday rest. They are New Year's Day, Epiphany (6 January), Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Assumption Day (15 August), National Day (26 October), All Saints' Day (1 November), the Immaculate Conception (8 December), Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day (26 December). The Easter-linked holidays are Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday and Corpus Christi, which falls on the Thursday sixty days after Easter. The rest have fixed dates. The same thirteen apply in all nine federal states.

Employees have a legal right to the day off, with pay, on these days. Anyone who must work receives a supplement on top of the normal pay. That makes the Austrian list the most firmly protected one among the countries on this page, and every day on it is counted.

Austria does not move holidays that fall on a weekend. If a holiday lands on a Saturday or a Sunday the working week stays as it is, and no weekday is given in exchange. Counts on this site therefore subtract a holiday only when it lands from Monday to Friday. The extra bridge days that people often take, such as the Friday after Ascension Day, are annual leave and not holidays.

Other days are listed but not counted. Good Friday is a bank holiday, not a public holiday: it was a day off for members of the Protestant churches until 2019, when the special rule was repealed, and it is now an ordinary working day for nearly everyone. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are also bank holidays, and many employers close on 24 and 31 December, but they carry no statutory entitlement and so are not counted here.

Local or provincial days, such as the feast days of provincial patron saints, are not national public holidays. Some collective agreements give them as days off, and you should check your own agreement.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10008541&Paragraf=7
• https://www.wien.gv.at/amtshelfer/feiertage/

How the counts are made