Cyprus public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Dormition of the Mother of God falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; Day After Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Cyprus has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 12 weekdays in Cyprus, two fewer than in 2025.

Cyprus 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. These counts include the days on both official 2026 lists, the Central Bank's bank holidays and the public holidays of the Securities and Exchange Commission; a private employer's days off depend on the collective agreement or the contract. Easter Tuesday (banks only), Christmas Eve (public bodies) and Holy Saturday are listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

15 dates are counted as non-working in Cyprus in 2026; 12 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 19 working days in February, 1 holiday
• Mar 21 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 19 working days in April, 4 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• 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 20 working days in October, 2 holidays
• Nov 21 working days in November
• Dec 22 working days in December, 2 holidays

Long weekends in 2026

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

• 3 days Saturday 21 February 2026 to Monday 23 February 2026
• 4 days Friday 10 April 2026 to Monday 13 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 30 May 2026 to Monday 1 June 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 Cyprus

Cyprus mixes Greek Orthodox feasts with national anniversaries of its own, and this page counts fifteen public holidays: the days that appear on both official 2026 lists it relies on, the bank holidays of the Central Bank and the public holidays of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Fourteen of them can fall on a weekday; the fifteenth, Easter Sunday, is always a Sunday.

The fixed dates are New Year's Day (1 January), Epiphany (6 January), Greek Independence Day (25 March), Cyprus National Day (1 April, the anniversary of the start of the 1955 EOKA struggle), Labour Day (1 May), the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August), Cyprus Independence Day (1 October), Ohi Day (28 October), Christmas Day and the day after it (25 and 26 December). The movable dates are Green Monday, which opens Lent, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday and Kataklysmos, the Festival of the Flood, which Cypriots keep on the Monday after Orthodox Pentecost.

Easter is reckoned by the Orthodox Church from the Julian calendar. For 2026 the Central Bank of Cyprus put Green Monday on 23 February, Good Friday on 10 April, Easter Monday on 13 April and Whit Monday, the day of Kataklysmos, on 1 June. The official lists for later years are not published yet, so those years are calculated from the same pattern and labelled as calculated.

No law that these pages could find lists the holidays a private employer must give. For a private employer, which of these days are paid days off depends on the collective agreement of the sector or on the employment contract. Check your contract if you work in the private sector.

Three days sit just outside the count. Easter Tuesday is on the bank list only, and Christmas Eve only on the list of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Holy Saturday is kept by some employers and shops. They are listed among the days observed by some, and anyone who has them off should take away a working day for each.

No holiday is moved to a weekday when it falls at the weekend. The bank holiday list for 2026 simply notes that 15 August and 26 December fall on a Saturday, and the following Monday stays an ordinary working day. A weekend in the wrong place therefore lowers the number of weekday holidays for that year, which the year pages show.

Village and town feast days and school-only holidays are not included, and the counts are the same in every district.

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.centralbank.cy/images/media/pdf/Bank-Holidays-English-2026.pdf
• https://www.cysec.gov.cy/en-GB/cysec/about-us/public-holidays/

How the counts are made