Poland public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and no substitute weekday is counted; National Independence Day falls on Saturday 11 November and no substitute weekday is counted; Christmas Eve falls on Sunday 24 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 9 weekdays in Poland, one more than in 2027.

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 2028

14 dates are counted as non-working in Poland in 2028; 9 of them fall on a weekday.

• 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 19 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 21 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, 2 holidays
• Dec 19 working days in December, 3 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
• 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.

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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