Lithuania public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania falls on Saturday 11 March and is not moved; Day of Dew and Saint John falls on Saturday 24 June and is not moved; Christmas Eve falls on Sunday 24 December and is not moved, because Lithuania has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 9 weekdays in Lithuania, the same as in 2027.

Lithuania 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. The working day before a public holiday is one hour shorter; these counts treat it as a full working day.

Public holidays in 2028

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

• 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 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 20 working days in February, 1 holiday
• Mar 23 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 19 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 22 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 20 working days in July, 1 holiday
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 20 working days in November, 2 holidays
• Dec 19 working days in December, 3 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 Lithuania

Lithuania has sixteen public holidays, because it combines the usual church and national days with two family days that fall on Sundays. The list is the one in Article 123 of the Labour Code, which says these days are usually not worked: 1 January; 16 February (Restoration of the State of Lithuania); 11 March (Restoration of Independence); Easter Sunday and Easter Monday; 1 May; Mothers' Day on the first Sunday in May; Fathers' Day on the first Sunday in June; 24 June (the Day of Dew and Saint John); 6 July (Statehood Day); 15 August (Assumption Day); 1 November (All Saints' Day); 2 November (All Souls' Day); and 24, 25 and 26 December. All of them are counted.

Three on that list never take a working weekday: Easter Sunday, Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day are Sundays by definition. Two others, 15 August and 1 November, fall on a Saturday or a Sunday often enough that people forget them. In 2026, 15 August is a Saturday and 1 November a Sunday, while 24 June and 6 July are Wednesday and Monday. Counting only dates that land on a Monday to Friday gives ten days in 2026 and nine in 2027.

Lithuania does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend. The Labour Code ties each holiday to its date or to a named Sunday and contains no rule that shifts one to a weekday, and this site follows that: Boxing Day is a Saturday in 2026, and Christmas Day is a Saturday in 2027 followed by Boxing Day on a Sunday, with no Monday off in exchange. May Day 2027 is a Saturday, and Assumption Day that year is a Sunday. If an employer chooses to grant another day, it is a favour and not a legal substitute, so the tables do not subtract it.

All Souls' Day is the most recent addition: an amendment of August 2019 made it a holiday from 1 January 2020, so older calendars and some tools show one day fewer. All Souls' Day on 2 November sits right after All Saints' Day, which makes a longer break in some years: in 2027, Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 November form a four-day block with the weekend before.

The working day before a public holiday is one hour shorter. The State Labour Inspectorate calls this a right of the employee that neither the employer nor the type of work can remove: if the hour cannot be given, it is paid as overtime. Christmas Eve is itself the day before Christmas, so both 23 and 24 December are shortened. The site still counts such days as full working days. Memorial days, the Day of Freedom Defenders in January and similar observances are not holidays and do not appear. Article 123 also says that work on a holiday needs the employee's consent, except under cumulative working-time accounting or where a collective agreement provides for it.

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.infolex.lt/ta/368200:str123
• https://vdi.lrv.lt/lt/naujienos/darbo-laikas-ir-apmokejimas-siu-metu-sventiniu-laikotarpiu-svarbiausia-informacija/

How the counts are made