Romania public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Unification of the Romanian Principalities Day falls on Saturday 24 January and is not moved; Dormition of the Mother of God falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; Second Day of Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Romania has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 11 weekdays in Romania, two fewer than in 2025.

Romania has no statutory substitute days: a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday, so the following Monday stays a working day in these counts.

Public holidays in 2026

16 dates are counted as non-working in Romania in 2026 (17 holidays, because 1 falls on the same day as another); 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 18 working days in January, 5 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 20 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 2 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, 1 holiday
• 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.

• 4 days Thursday 1 January 2026 to Sunday 4 January 2026
• 4 days Friday 10 April 2026 to Monday 13 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 30 May 2026 to Monday 1 June 2026
• 4 days Saturday 28 November 2026 to Tuesday 1 December 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 Romania

Article 139 of the Romanian Labour Code (Law 53/2003) lists the days of legal holiday on which no work is done, and this page counts every one of them. The list has seventeen days in a year: 1 and 2 January, Epiphany (6 January), the Synaxis of St John the Baptist (7 January), Unification Day (24 January), Good Friday, the first and second day of Easter, Labour Day (1 May), Children's Day (1 June), the first and second day of Pentecost, the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August), St Andrew's Day (30 November), National Day (1 December) and the first and second day of Christmas.

The list has grown over the past decade. Children's Day was added in 2016, Good Friday in 2018, and Epiphany and St John's Day in 2023, so guides written before then give fewer days. The same article grants members of recognised non-Christian religions two days for each of three religious festivals a year; these are personal days and not part of the national count.

Easter and Pentecost follow the Orthodox calendar, which is computed from the Julian reckoning. In 2026 Orthodox Easter Sunday was 12 April, putting Good Friday on 10 April and the Easter Monday holiday on 13 April; Pentecost, called Rusalii, fell on 31 May, so its Monday shared 1 June with Children's Day, and two holidays on one date count once. In 2027 Easter Sunday is 2 May, with Good Friday on 30 April and Labour Day on the Saturday between them, and Whit Monday, the second day of Pentecost, is 21 June. A paragraph added in 2020 lets employees who belong to another legally recognised Christian church take Good Friday, Easter and Pentecost on that church's dates; these tables use the Orthodox ones.

Romania has no rule moving a holiday that falls on a weekend. If the date is a Saturday or a Sunday, the holiday is simply lost for that year and the next Monday stays a working day. In 2027, for example, 2 January, 24 January, 1 May, 15 August and both Christmas days fall at the weekend, so fewer holidays land on weekdays than in 2026.

The employer grants the days off. Article 140 asks the Government to set working schedules for hospitals and public catering, so that essential food stays available, and Article 141 exempts workplaces whose activity cannot be interrupted.

No regional or local days are included. The same national list applies in every county and in Bucharest.

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://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/128647

How the counts are made