Estonia public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Second Day of Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Estonia has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 9 weekdays in Estonia, one fewer than in 2025.

Estonia 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. The working day before Independence Day, Victory Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Day is three hours shorter; these counts treat it as a full working day.

Public holidays in 2026

12 dates are counted as non-working in Estonia in 2026; 9 of them fall on a weekday.

Shorter working days

4 days are shorter working days in 2026. They count as full working days here.

• Monday 23 February 2026: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours)
• Monday 22 June 2026: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours)
• Wednesday 23 December 2026: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours)
• Thursday 31 December 2026: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours)

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 19 working days in February, 1 holiday
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 20 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 20 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November
• 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 Friday 3 April 2026 to Sunday 5 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 4 days Thursday 24 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 Estonia

Estonia's holidays are set out in the Public Holidays and Days of National Importance Act (Pühade ja tähtpäevade seadus). Section 1 makes 24 February, Independence Day, the national day and a day of rest. Section 2 then lists the public holidays and days of rest: 1 January, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, 1 May (May Day), Pentecost, 23 June (Victory Day), 24 June (Midsummer Day), 20 August (Day of Restoration of Independence), 24 December (Christmas Eve), 25 December and 26 December. With Independence Day that is twelve days, all counted here.

Only three are tied to Easter or Pentecost, and two of those, Easter Sunday and Pentecost, are Sundays. This is why Estonia has no Easter Monday: the Act does not include it. Good Friday is the only moving holiday that can fall on a weekday. Christmas Eve joined the list in 2005 and is a full public holiday.

The Act has a second list, in section 3, of days of national importance such as Epiphany, Estonian Literature Day, Mother Tongue Day, Mothers' Day, Fathers' Day and All Souls' Day. These are days to mark, not days off, and they are never listed or counted.

The Act contains no rule that moves a holiday which falls on a Saturday or Sunday. Estonia therefore has no substitute days: Independence Day is a Wednesday in 2027 but a Tuesday in 2026, and whichever weekday it is, that is the day off. Christmas Day falls on a Friday in 2026 and a Saturday in 2027, and 26 December is a Saturday and then a Sunday, with no Monday in exchange. May Day 2027 is a Saturday. The count of holidays on weekdays is nine in 2026 and seven in 2027.

The working day before certain holidays is shorter. Section 53 of the Employment Contracts Act (töölepingu seadus) requires the employer to cut by three hours the working day before New Year's Day, Independence Day, Victory Day and Christmas Eve, which in 2026 means 23 February, 22 June, 23 December and 31 December. The site lists them in a separate table of shorter working days and treats them as ordinary working days in its counts. Someone with a reduced day on all four has about twelve fewer working hours in a year than the totals imply.

Good Friday is 3 April in 2026 and 26 March in 2027. Pentecost is 24 May in 2026 and 16 May in 2027.

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.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/527122022003/consolide
• https://www.riigiteataja.ee/et/akt/TLS

How the counts are made