Austria public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved, because Austria has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 12 weekdays in Austria, three more than in 2027.

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 2028

13 dates are counted as non-working in Austria in 2028; 12 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule
• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

3 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2028. 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 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 20 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 18 working days in December, 3 holidays

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 3 days Saturday 15 April 2028 to Monday 17 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Saturday 3 June 2028 to Monday 5 June 2028
• 3 days Friday 8 December 2028 to Sunday 10 December 2028
• 4 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Tuesday 26 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 30 December 2028 to Monday 1 January 2029

Best days to take leave in 2028

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