Alsace-Moselle, France public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and is not moved; Saint Stephen's Day falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because France has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Alsace-Moselle, two fewer than in 2025.

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. Good Friday and St Stephen's Day (26 December) are public holidays only in the Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle departments, and Good Friday only in communes with a Protestant church or a church shared by both denominations; these counts include it throughout the three departments. Whit Monday may be the unpaid solidarity day (journée de solidarité) at your employer.

Public holidays in 2026

13 dates are counted as non-working in Alsace-Moselle in 2026; 10 of them fall on a weekday.

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
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 17 working days in May, 4 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 22 working days in July, 1 holiday
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 20 working days in November, 2 holidays
• Dec 22 working days in December, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of France

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 8 May 2026 to Sunday 10 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 23 May 2026 to Monday 25 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.

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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 Alsace-Moselle

Alsace-Moselle has thirteen public holidays a year, two more than the rest of metropolitan France. The area is made up of the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, which were German between 1871 and 1918 and kept part of their earlier labour rules when they returned to France. Those rules are known as the droit local. They add Good Friday and St Stephen's Day, the second day of Christmas on 26 December, to the eleven days that apply to the rest of the country.

All eleven national holidays are also observed here: New Year's Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Victory in Europe Day, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Bastille Day, Assumption Day, All Saints' Day, Armistice Day and Christmas Day. The two local days are public holidays under the droit local, on the same footing as the national ones.

There is one wrinkle for Good Friday. The official guidance from the French administration says it applies in communes that have a Protestant temple or a church shared between denominations. This site counts Good Friday for all three departments, as the calendar it is built on does. If you work in a commune with neither, check with your employer before relying on the count.

Public holidays are not moved when they fall on a weekend. 26 December falls on a Saturday in 2026 and on a Sunday in 2027, and in both years the working days of the period are unchanged. The same rule applies to every other holiday here.

Two limits apply to the journée de solidarité, the unpaid working day that employers set each year. In Alsace-Moselle it may not be placed on 25 December, 26 December or Good Friday. Whit Monday remains a common choice, so a workplace that uses it will have one working day more than the total shown. Days that are not public holidays, such as Holy Saturday, are counted as working days.

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