Luxembourg public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and no substitute weekday is counted.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Luxembourg, four more than in 2027.

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 2028

11 dates are counted as non-working in Luxembourg in 2028; 10 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.

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 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 20 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 20 working days in June, 2 holidays
• 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
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• 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
• 3 days Saturday 3 June 2028 to Monday 5 June 2028
• 3 days Friday 23 June 2028 to Sunday 25 June 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 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