Italy public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Liberation Day falls on Saturday 25 April and is not moved; Assumption of Mary Day falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; Saint Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Italy falls on Sunday 4 October 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 Italy has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Italy, three fewer than in 2025.

Italy 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. Each town also keeps its patron saint's day as a local holiday (for example 24 June in Florence, Genoa and Turin, 29 June in Rome, 7 December in Milan), which these counts do not include.

Public holidays in 2026

13 dates are counted as non-working in Italy in 2026 (14 holidays, because 1 falls on the same day as another); 7 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, 3 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 21 working days in December, 3 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 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 Italy

From 2026 Italy has thirteen national public holidays, or giorni festivi, in a normal year. They are New Year's Day, Epiphany (6 January), Easter Sunday, Easter Monday (Lunedì dell'Angelo), Liberation Day (25 April), Labour Day (1 May), Republic Day (2 June), Assumption Day (15 August), the feast of St Francis of Assisi (4 October), All Saints' Day (1 November), the Immaculate Conception (8 December), Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day (26 December). Easter Sunday is always a Sunday, so at most twelve of them can reduce a working-day count.

The list is set by Law 260 of 1949. Article 1 makes 2 June the national day, and article 2 names every Sunday and the other days above, Easter Monday included. Law 54 of 1977 stopped treating St Joseph's Day, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi and the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June) as holidays for civil purposes, and Epiphany too, until a decree of 1985 brought it back. The same law moved the celebration of 4 November, the Day of National Unity, to the first Sunday of November, so National Unity Day appears in the calendar here but always falls on a Sunday and never changes a count.

St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy, is the newest addition. Law 151 of 8 October 2025 inserted 4 October into article 2 of the 1949 law, with effect from 1 January 2026, so it is a full public holiday and counted like the others. In 2026 it falls on a Sunday and costs no working day; in 2027 it falls on a Monday.

Italy has no rule for moving a holiday that falls on a weekend. The Monday that follows does not become a day off, and no substitute weekday is counted here. Employees who are paid by the hour or the day may be entitled to extra pay when a holiday falls on a Sunday, but that is pay, not time off, and the counts are unchanged.

Each town also keeps the day of its patron saint as a local holiday for its own employees, for example 24 June in Florence, Genoa and Turin, 29 June in Rome and 7 December in Milan. These are not included, because they apply only inside the municipality. A year in a given town can therefore have one working day fewer than the national figure on this page.

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.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:1949-05-27;260~art2
• https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:1977-03-05;54~art1
• https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:2025-10-08;151

How the counts are made