Finland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Independence Day falls on Sunday 6 December and is not moved; Second Day of Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Finland has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Finland, one fewer than in 2025.

Finland 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. Midsummer Eve and Christmas Eve are not public holidays by law, but most collective agreements give them off; they are listed but not counted, so a workplace that closes on them has up to two working days fewer in a year.

Public holidays in 2026

13 dates are counted as non-working in Finland in 2026; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

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

Long weekends in 2026

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

• 4 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 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 Finland

Finland's calendar mixes church feasts, two national days and two eves that most people take off but that the law does not call holidays. HolidayTally counts thirteen days in a normal year: New Year's Day, Epiphany (6 January), Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, May Day (1 May), Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Midsummer Day, All Saints' Day, Independence Day (6 December), Christmas Day and Boxing Day (26 December).

Several of those are set by position rather than date. Midsummer Day is the Saturday between 20 and 26 June, and Midsummer Eve is the Friday before it. All Saints' Day is the Saturday between 31 October and 6 November. Midsummer Day and All Saints' Day therefore always fall on Saturday, and the two Sundays in the list, Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday, are never working days for anyone.

Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve deserve a note of their own. The Annual Holidays Act (vuosilomalaki 162/2005) mentions them only once, in section 4, where it leaves them out of the weekdays on which annual leave is counted, together with Sundays, church holidays, Independence Day, Easter Saturday and May Day. The Working Hours Act (työaikalaki 872/2019) gives no right to a day off on either eve. In practice most collective agreements make both days free, but that comes from the agreements, not from a statute. HolidayTally applies the same test everywhere, so the two eves appear in the list of days observed by some and are not subtracted. A workplace that closes on both has two working days fewer than the totals here.

Finland has no substitute days. When a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the Monday is an ordinary working day. That happens often, because so many holidays are on fixed dates: Boxing Day is a Saturday in 2026 and a Sunday in 2027, and Independence Day is a Sunday in 2026. Only the weekday dates reduce working time, which leaves seven in 2026 and six in 2027.

Some well-known dates are deliberately left out. Finland has a long list of flag days and observances such as Runeberg Day, Kalevala Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day. They are unofficial or are marked on a Saturday or Sunday, and none gives a day off. Easter Saturday is in the same position as the eves: it is not a leave day, but it is not a holiday either.

The Easter dates need no yearly announcement. In 2026 Good Friday is 3 April, Easter Monday 6 April and Ascension Day 14 May; in 2027 they are 26 March, 29 March and 6 May. Midsummer Eve is 19 June in 2026 and 25 June 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.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2005/162
• https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2019/872

How the counts are made