France public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Armistice Day falls on Saturday 11 November and is not moved, because France 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 9 weekdays in France, two more than in 2027.

France 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. Whit Monday is counted as a public holiday, but many employers use it as the unpaid solidarity day (journée de solidarité), so it may be a working day for you. Alsace and Moselle add Good Friday and St Stephen's Day.

Public holidays in 2028

11 dates are counted as non-working in France in 2028; 9 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 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 20 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 20 working days in July, 1 holiday
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November, 2 holidays
• Dec 20 working days in December, 1 holiday

Compare with the rest of France

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 3 days Saturday 15 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 Saturday 3 June 2028 to Monday 5 June 2028
• 3 days Friday 14 July 2028 to Sunday 16 July 2028
• 3 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Monday 25 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 France

The metropolitan France calendar on this page counts eleven non-working days a year. They are New Year's Day (1 January), Easter Monday, Labour Day (1 May), Victory in Europe Day (8 May), Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Bastille Day (14 July), Assumption Day (15 August), All Saints' Day (1 November), Armistice Day (11 November) and Christmas Day (25 December). Eight of them have fixed dates and the other three follow Easter: Easter Monday, Ascension Day, thirty-nine days after Easter, and Whit Monday, fifty days after it.

The list comes from article L3133-1 of the Code du travail. Because it sits in the labour code and applies to the whole of metropolitan France outside Alsace and Moselle, there is no regional layer to add. The overseas departments and territories have extra days of their own, such as the abolition of slavery commemorations, and they are not covered by this page.

Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday are both Sundays, so they never change a count and are not shown as separate days off. Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Mardi Gras, 14 August and 24 December are not public holidays in metropolitan France, even though many people take leave around them. They are therefore counted as ordinary working days here.

French law does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend. In 2026 Christmas Day is a Friday and in 2027 it is a Saturday, and in the latter year nothing is given in exchange. The counts on this site reflect that: when a holiday lands on a Saturday or Sunday, no weekday is subtracted from the working days of the period.

The number of working days is a calendar figure, not a promise about your own pay or leave. For ten of the eleven holidays an employee only has the day off if a collective agreement, a company agreement or custom provides it. If your employer treats Whit Monday as the journée de solidarité, you work that day without extra pay, and the total for your workplace is one day higher than the one shown here. Employees of Alsace and Moselle should use the separate page for those departments.

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.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2405

How the counts are made