Croatia public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Statehood Day falls on Saturday 30 May and is not moved; 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 Croatia has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 9 weekdays in Croatia, two fewer than in 2025.

Croatia 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.

Public holidays in 2026

14 dates are counted as non-working in Croatia in 2026; 9 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 20 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 20 working days in August, 2 holidays
• 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

Long weekends in 2026

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

• 3 days Saturday 4 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 20 June 2026 to Monday 22 June 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 Croatia

Croatian holidays are listed in the Act on Holidays, Memorial Days and Non-Working Days, published in the Narodne novine gazette in 2019. Its first article names the fourteen days that count as holidays and non-working days, and this site treats exactly those as days off.

Taken in calendar order, they begin with New Year's Day and Epiphany on 6 January. Easter and Easter Monday follow, then Labour Day on 1 May and Statehood Day on 30 May. Corpus Christi is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. The summer brings Anti-Fascist Struggle Day on 22 June, Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and Croatian Veterans' Day on 5 August, and the Assumption on 15 August. The autumn has All Saints' Day on 1 November and Remembrance Day on 18 November, which honours the victims of the Homeland War and of Vukovar and Škabrnja. Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day on 26 December close the year. Independence Day on 8 October does not appear in the list.

A second group of days sits in the same act without being non-working for everyone: memorial days, which are marked but are ordinary working days, and religious days that members of certain faiths may take off, such as Christmas on 7 January for Orthodox Christians. These are individual rights and not general closures, so they do not enter the count.

Article 4 settles the weekend question: a holiday that falls on a Sunday is not moved to the next day. HolidayTally applies the same rule to Saturdays, so there are no substitute days. Article 5 gives employees a right to pay compensation for the days in Articles 1 and 3, which is a pay rule and does not change which days are free.

In 2026 five of the fourteen fall at a weekend: Easter Sunday on 5 April, Statehood Day on Saturday 30 May, the Assumption on Saturday 15 August, All Saints' Day on Sunday 1 November and St Stephen's Day on Saturday 26 December. The other nine reduce the working days of the year.

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://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2019_11_110_2212.html

How the counts are made