Cyprus public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Greek Independence Day falls on Saturday 25 March and is not moved; Cyprus National Day falls on Saturday 1 April and is not moved; Cyprus Independence Day falls on Sunday 1 October and is not moved; Ohi Day falls on Saturday 28 October and is not moved, because Cyprus has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2026.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 9 weekdays in Cyprus, one fewer than in 2027.

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 2028

15 dates are counted as non-working in Cyprus in 2028; 9 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 20 working days in February, 1 holiday
• Mar 23 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 18 working days in April, 4 holidays
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October, 2 holidays
• Nov 22 working days in November
• Dec 19 working days in December, 2 holidays

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 3 days Saturday 26 February 2028 to Monday 28 February 2028
• 4 days Friday 14 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
• 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 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