Estonia public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Midsummer Day falls on Saturday 24 June and is not moved; Independence Restoration Day falls on Sunday 20 August and is not moved; Christmas Eve falls on Sunday 24 December and is not moved, because Estonia 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 6 weekdays in Estonia, one fewer than in 2027.

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 2028

12 dates are counted as non-working in Estonia in 2028; 6 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule

Shorter working days

4 days are shorter working days in 2028. They count as full working days here.

• Wednesday 23 February 2028: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours) provisional – calculated from the rule
• Thursday 22 June 2028: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours) provisional – calculated from the rule
• Saturday 23 December 2028: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours) provisional – calculated from the rule
• Sunday 31 December 2028: Pre-holiday day (workday shortened by 3 hours) 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 20 working days in February, 1 holiday
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 19 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 3 holidays
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 23 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 22 working days in November
• 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.

• 3 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 23 June 2028 to Sunday 25 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 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