Greece public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Independence Day falls on Saturday 25 March and is not moved; Ohi Day falls on Saturday 28 October and is not moved, because Greece has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2026.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 6 weekdays in Greece, the same as in 2027.

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 2028

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

• provisional calculated from the rule
• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

3 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2028. They are not counted as non-working days here.

Shorter working days

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

• Sunday 24 December 2028: Christmas Eve provisional – calculated from the rule
• Sunday 31 December 2028: New Year's Eve 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 22 working days in November
• Dec 19 working days in December, 2 holidays

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
• 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 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