Luxembourg public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Europe Day falls on Saturday 9 May and no substitute weekday is counted; Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and no substitute weekday is counted; Saint Stephen's Day falls on Saturday 26 December and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Luxembourg, three fewer than in 2025.

In Luxembourg, an employee gets a compensatory day off, to be taken within three months, for a public holiday that falls on a Sunday or another day not normally worked. These counts subtract no compensatory day; if yours falls in the period, count one working day fewer. Good Friday, the afternoon of Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are listed as bank holidays but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

11 dates are counted as non-working in Luxembourg 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.

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
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 18 working days in May, 4 holidays
• 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
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• 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 23 May 2026 to Monday 25 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 Luxembourg

Luxembourg has eleven legal public holidays, fixed by the Labour Code. They are New Year's Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day (1 May), Europe Day (9 May), Ascension Day, Whit Monday, National Day (23 June), Assumption Day (15 August), All Saints' Day (1 November), Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day (26 December). Europe Day was added in 2019. The country is small and has a single national calendar, with no regional variations.

The weekend rule is a compensation rule, not a move. When a holiday falls on a Sunday, or on another day the employee does not normally work, the employee is entitled to a compensatory day off. The government portal Guichet.lu describes the entitlement and says the day should in principle be taken within three months of the holiday, with some leeway when the needs of the business do not allow it. Because the day is individual and has no fixed date, these counts subtract no compensatory day. If your own compensatory day falls in the period you are counting, take one working day off the total.

A holiday on a Saturday is treated like one on a Sunday for an employee whose week runs from Monday to Friday, since it is a day not normally worked. The entitlement is the same, and so is the treatment here.

Some days are listed but not counted. Good Friday and the afternoon of Christmas Eve are holidays for the banking sector under its collective agreement, and New Year's Eve is listed with them: banks and some businesses close, but the law does not give a day off.

Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Whit Monday follow the date of Easter. The other eight days are fixed. For years where the Easter date is known from the calendar, the counted dates follow directly from the rule, so no ministerial announcement is needed in advance.

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://guichet.public.lu/fr/citoyens/travail/conges-jours-feries/jours-feries/travail-jours-feries.html

How the counts are made