Poland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• National Day of the Third of May falls on Sunday 3 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; Second Day of Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 8 weekdays in Poland, two fewer than in 2025.

In Poland, a public holiday that falls on a Saturday gives employees another day off, which the employer sets within the same settlement period; a holiday on a Sunday gives none. These counts subtract no such day; if yours falls in the period, count one working day fewer.

Public holidays in 2026

14 dates are counted as non-working in Poland in 2026; 8 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 3 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 20 working days in November, 2 holidays
• 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 Saturday 4 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 4 days Thursday 24 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 Poland

Poland has fourteen public holidays, which Polish law calls days free from work, and one list covers the whole country. Thirteen are the familiar ones: New Year's Day, Epiphany on 6 January, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Constitution Day on 3 May, Whit Sunday, Corpus Christi, the Assumption on 15 August, All Saints' Day on 1 November, Independence Day on 11 November, Christmas Day and the second day of Christmas on 26 December. The fourteenth is Christmas Eve, 24 December, which became a day free from work in 2025.

The legal basis is the act of 18 January 1951 on days free from work, as amended. Epiphany was added to it with effect from 2011, and the amendment of 6 December 2024 inserted Christmas Eve. Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Whit Sunday and Corpus Christi move with Easter. In 2026 Easter falls on 5 April, Whit Sunday on 24 May and Corpus Christi on 4 June.

Poland does not shift a holiday to a weekday, and the way it deals with Saturdays is unusual. A holiday that falls on a Sunday gives nobody anything extra. Under article 130 of the Labour Code, a holiday that falls on a Saturday lowers an employee's working time by eight hours, so the employer must give another day off, which the employer picks, normally within the same settlement period. In 2026 this applies to 15 August and to 26 December, both Saturdays. Because the replacement day is chosen workplace by workplace and has no fixed date, HolidayTally does not count it: the Monday after a Saturday holiday stays a working day in these totals, and an employee who is owed a replacement day has one working day fewer than the figure shown.

In 2026 six of the fourteen holidays fall on a Sunday or Saturday: Easter Sunday, 3 May, Whit Sunday, 15 August, 1 November and 26 December. That leaves eight on weekdays: New Year's Day, Epiphany, Easter Monday, 1 May, Corpus Christi, 11 November, 24 December and Christmas Day.

Nothing else is counted. Shops follow a separate trading act that closes most of them on holidays and on most Sundays, but that restricts opening hours and does not create days off for employees. Local anniversaries and regional customs carry no legal entitlement and are left out.

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://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2025/296/text.pdf
• https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2026/1245/text.pdf

How the counts are made