Czechia public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• Independent Czech State Restoration Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Independent Czechoslovak State Day falls on Saturday 28 October and is not moved; Christmas Eve falls on Sunday 24 December and is not moved, because Czechia 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 10 weekdays in Czechia, one more than in 2027.

Czechia 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.

Public holidays in 2028

13 dates are counted as non-working in Czechia in 2028 (14 holidays, because 1 falls on the same day as another); 10 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule

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 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 19 working days in July, 2 holidays
• Aug 23 working days in August
• Sep 20 working days in September, 1 holiday
• Oct 22 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 19 working days in December, 3 holidays

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 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 6 May 2028 to Monday 8 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 17 November 2028 to Sunday 19 November 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 Czechia

Czechia, also known in English as the Czech Republic, observes thirteen public holidays. They are set out in Act No. 245/2000 Coll. on public holidays, other holidays, important days and days of rest, which sorts them into two groups with the same practical effect: both are days of rest on which employees are normally not required to work.

The first group, called state holidays, has seven dates. They are 1 January (the Restoration Day of the independent Czech State), 8 May (Victory Day), 5 July (the Day of Saints Cyril and Methodius), 6 July (the Day of Jan Hus), 28 September (Czech Statehood Day), 28 October (the Day of the Independent Czechoslovak State) and 17 November (the Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy). The second group, called other holidays, repeats 1 January as New Year's Day and adds six dates of its own: Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Christmas Eve and the two Christmas days of 25 and 26 December. Since the two 1 January entries are the same calendar day, the total of thirteen is a count of dates, not of titles. Good Friday is a late arrival, having become a day of rest in 2016.

Only Good Friday and Easter Monday move, following Easter. In 2026 they fall on 3 and 6 April.

The act contains no rule that transfers a holiday falling on a weekend, and Czech practice does not invent one. In 2026 two of the thirteen days land on a weekend, 5 July on a Sunday and 26 December on a Saturday, and they are lost as days off. No Monday is added in lieu. The other eleven, including 24 December on a Thursday, reduce the working days of the year.

Easter Sunday is not on the list, since it is always a Sunday, and neither is Whit Sunday. Memorial days that the act does not designate as days of rest are not counted. Shop closing days are set by a different law and do not alter these totals.

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.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2000-245

How the counts are made