Greece public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Dormition of the Mother of God falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; Glorifying Mother of God falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Greece has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Greece, two fewer than in 2025.

Greece has no statutory substitute days, except that the Minister of Labour moves Labour Day (1 May) to another working day when it falls on a Sunday, in Holy Week or on Easter Monday; the moved date is set each year and is provisional until announced. Only nine days are mandatory holidays for every employer. Clean Monday, Good Friday and Holy Spirit Monday close public offices and many businesses, but they are listed and not counted. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are half days in many workplaces; they count as full working days here.

Public holidays in 2026

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

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

3 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. They are not counted as non-working days here.

Shorter working days

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

• Thursday 24 December 2026: Christmas Eve
• Thursday 31 December 2026: New Year's Eve

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

Long weekends in 2026

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

• 3 days Saturday 11 April 2026 to Monday 13 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 Greece

Greek law makes nine days mandatory holidays for every employer, and these tables count exactly those nine. Article 60 of Law 4808/2021 names New Year's Day (1 January), Epiphany (6 January), Independence Day (25 March), Easter Monday, Labour Day (1 May), the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August), Ohi Day (28 October), Christmas Day (25 December) and the Synaxis of the Mother of God (26 December). On a mandatory holiday an employer may not keep staff at work unless the business is one the law exempts.

The same article lets the Minister of Labour declare up to five more days a year, as mandatory or optional holidays, and lets regional governors add local ones. On an optional holiday the employer decides whether people work. Clean Monday, the first day of Lent, Good Friday and Holy Spirit Monday, the day after Orthodox Pentecost, belong to that wider group: schools and public offices close and many private firms follow, but the general law does not oblige them. This site lists those three days without counting them, so if your workplace closes on all of them, a year has three working days fewer than the count shows.

Only one of the nine moves with the Church calendar. Easter Monday follows Orthodox Easter, which is reckoned from the Julian calendar and can fall up to five weeks after the Western feast. In 2026 the Orthodox Sunday was 12 April, so Easter Monday fell on 13 April, Clean Monday on 23 February and Holy Spirit Monday on 1 June.

A mandatory holiday that lands on a Sunday stays where it is: the rule that once moved it to a weekday was repealed. The exception is Labour Day. When 1 May falls on a Sunday, on a day of Holy Week or on Easter Monday, a decision of the Minister of Labour moves it to another working day. The decision comes out each spring, so the Labour Day date stays provisional on these pages until it is published. In 2026 Easter was over before 1 May, and the holiday stayed on Friday 1 May.

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are half days at many workplaces. They appear under shorter working days and count as full working days. Name days, the feasts of a town's patron saint and holidays set by a single region are not included either.

Because three of the listed days and one counted day move with Easter, the number of working days in February, March, April, May and June changes from one year to the next. Check the year page before booking leave.

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.hli.gov.gr/ergasiakes-scheseis/nomothesia-ergasiakes-scheseis/amoivi/kyriaki-argies-amoivi/imeres-argias-2/

How the counts are made