Latvia public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and no substitute weekday is counted; Midsummer Day falls on Saturday 24 June and no substitute weekday is counted; Republic of Latvia Proclamation Day falls on Saturday 18 November and is observed on Monday 20 November; Christmas Eve falls on Sunday 24 December and no substitute weekday is counted; New Year's Eve falls on Sunday 31 December 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 8 weekdays in Latvia, one fewer than in 2027.

When Restoration of Independence Day (4 May) or Proclamation Day (18 November) falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday is a holiday by law, and these counts include it; other holidays are not moved. The Cabinet also moves some working days to Saturdays to make bridge days; that order binds state institutions only, so the bridge days are listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2028

16 dates are counted as non-working in Latvia in 2028 (17 holidays, because 1 falls on the same day as another); 8 of them fall on a weekday.

• observed substitute weekday off
• 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 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 3 holidays
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 23 working days in August
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November, 2 holidays
• Dec 19 working days in December, 4 holidays

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 4 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Monday 17 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 23 June 2028 to Sunday 25 June 2028
• 3 days Saturday 18 November 2028 to Monday 20 November 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 Latvia

Latvia's public holidays are fixed by a short law from 1990, On Public Holidays, Commemorative Days and Celebration Days (Par svētku, atceres un atzīmējamām dienām), which the HolidayTally tables follow. It names fifteen days in an ordinary year: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, 1 May, 4 May (Restoration of Independence Day), Mothers' Day on the second Sunday of May, Whit Sunday, 23 June (Līgo), 24 June (Jāņi), 18 November (Proclamation Day), 24, 25 and 26 December, and 31 December. The closing day of the Latvian Song and Dance Festival is added in the years when the festival is held; the law names it without a calendar date, and no festival falls in 2026 or 2027.

Latvia is unusual in having a weekend rule for only some holidays. The law says that when 4 May, the festival closing day or 18 November falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the next working day is a day off. Every other holiday stays where it is. In 2026 neither case arises, since 4 May is a Monday and 18 November a Wednesday; in 2027 they are Tuesday and Thursday. By contrast, 1 May is a Saturday in 2027 and Christmas Day is a Saturday with Boxing Day on the Sunday, so those cost no weekday. The tables therefore show eleven weekday holidays in 2026 and nine in 2027.

The other feature to know is the transferred working day. Section 133 of the Labour Law lets an employer designate a working day that lies between a public holiday and the weekly rest as a holiday, and move it to a Saturday of the same week or of another week in the same month. For institutions financed from the State budget, the Cabinet issues an order by 1 July for the following year. For 2026 the order turns Friday 2 January into a day off, worked on Saturday 17 January, and Monday 22 June into a day off, worked on Saturday 27 June.

Those orders bind State institutions. Private employers may follow them, but they are not required to do so. HolidayTally therefore lists the two bridge days among the days observed by some, and leaves them out of the count; the working Saturdays remain days of rest. If your employer follows the Cabinet order, the Saturday counts as a working day and the Friday or Monday as a holiday, which leaves the number of working days in those months unchanged.

The working day before a public holiday is shortened by one hour under section 135, unless a collective agreement or contract sets a shorter day. An employee who works on a public holiday receives a supplement of at least 100 per cent under section 68.

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://likumi.lv/ta/id/72608-par-svetku-atceres-un-atzimejamam-dienam
• https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/26019-labour-law

How the counts are made