Austria public holidays 2027
Austria has 15 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Neujahr |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Epiphany
Heilige Drei Könige |
Nationwide |
| 19 Mar | Friday | Saint Joseph's Day
Josefstag |
AT-2, AT-6, AT-7, AT-8 |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Ostersonntag |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Ostermontag |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | National Holiday
Staatsfeiertag |
Nationwide |
| 4 May | Tuesday | Saint Florian's Day
Florianitag |
AT-4 |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Christi Himmelfahrt |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pfingstsonntag |
Nationwide |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday
Pfingstmontag |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi
Fronleichnam |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Assumption Day
Maria Himmelfahrt |
Nationwide |
| 24 Sep | Friday | Saint Rupert's Day
Rupertitag |
AT-5 |
| 26 Oct | Tuesday | National Holiday
Nationalfeiertag |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Saints' Day
Allerheiligen |
Nationwide |
| 11 Nov | Thursday | Saint Martin's Day
Martinstag |
AT-1 |
| 15 Nov | Monday | Saint Leopold's Day
Leopolditag |
AT-3, AT-9 |
| 8 Dec | Wednesday | Immaculate Conception
Mariä Empfängnis |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Weihnachten |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Stefanitag |
Nationwide |
The 5 regional dates above are observed only in part of the country and are left out of every national total on this page.
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 5 holidays
June
July
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Austria in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Austria. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (28 Mar), National Holiday (1 May), Pentecost (16 May), Assumption Day (15 Aug), Christmas Day (25 Dec), St. Stephen's Day (26 Dec). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and May the shortest with 18. A gap of 4 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working days, so 2027gives you 1 more working day.Plans copied over from last year without adjusting for that difference will be slightly off from January onwards.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 15, Austria sits above the middle of the range, around the 82nd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 4 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). There are also 3 bridge days: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2027.
7 holidays change date compared with 2026: Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, National Holiday, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Whit Monday and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.
How holidays work in Austria
A change to the Austrian calendar in 2019 is still missing from many sources. Until then, Good Friday was a holiday only for members of certain Protestant churches. The European Court of Justice ruled that this was discriminatory, and Austria responded by dropping Good Friday as a holiday altogether. In its place, every employee may now nominate one personal holiday a year, on a day of their own choosing. Any reference that still lists Good Friday for Austria predates that change and is out of date.
The Immaculate Conception on 8 December is another date to handle with care. It is a public holiday, and it is counted as one here, but shops are allowed to open, so many people in retail work as usual.