Malta public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Sette Giugno falls on Sunday 7 June and no substitute weekday is counted; Feast of the Assumption falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted; Republic Day falls on Sunday 13 December and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 11 weekdays in Malta, one more than in 2025.

In Malta, a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday: since 2021 each one adds a day to the annual leave entitlement instead. These counts subtract no substitute weekday.

Public holidays in 2026

14 dates are counted as non-working in Malta in 2026; 11 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 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 19 working days in February, 1 holiday
• Mar 20 working days in March, 2 holidays
• Apr 21 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 20 working days in September, 2 holidays
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November
• 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 Friday 3 April 2026 to Sunday 5 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 27 June 2026 to Monday 29 June 2026
• 3 days Saturday 19 September 2026 to Monday 21 September 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 Malta

Malta has fourteen public holidays a year. They are New Year's Day, the Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck (10 February), the Feast of St Joseph (19 March), Freedom Day (31 March), Good Friday, Workers' Day (1 May), Sette Giugno (7 June), the Feast of St Peter and St Paul (29 June), the Feast of the Assumption (15 August), Victory Day (8 September, also the Feast of Our Lady of Victories), Independence Day (21 September), the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December), Republic Day (13 December) and Christmas Day. Good Friday is the only one that moves; every other date is fixed. Malta does not keep Easter Monday.

The days come from the National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act (Cap. 252). Article 2 names five national holidays that commemorate the islands' history: Freedom Day, Sette Giugno, Victory Day, Independence Day and Republic Day. The schedule to the Act adds nine more, the religious feasts together with New Year's Day and Workers' Day. The list is the same on Malta and Gozo, although each village keeps a patron-saint festa in summer that is not a public holiday and is not counted.

The weekend rule is unusual. A holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to the Monday. Instead, article 6 of the Act says that with effect from 1 January 2021 such a holiday entitles the employee to a day of vacation leave on top of the basic entitlement for that year. Between 2005 and 2020 the same article said the opposite, so weekend holidays gave nothing back. In 2026 three holidays fall on a weekend, Sette Giugno, the Assumption and Republic Day, which adds three days of leave.

Counts on this site subtract a holiday only when it lands from Monday to Friday, and add no substitute weekday. Your own leave balance includes the extra days, so a worker taking time off in a year with several weekend holidays has more leave to use than the headline figure suggests. Employees who work a week that includes weekends, such as shift workers, may be treated differently, and the details are set by their agreement.

The dates in this text are fixed by law, apart from Good Friday, which depends on Easter. The count for each year follows directly from them.

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://legislation.mt/eli/cap/252/eng

How the counts are made