Belarus public holidays 2026
Belarus has 10 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 254 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Новы год |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Новы год |
Nationwide |
| 7 Jan | Wednesday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Каляды праваслаўныя |
Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Sunday rest day | International Women's Day
Мiжнародны жаночы дзень |
Nationwide |
| 21 Apr | Tuesday | Commemoration Day
Радунiца |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Дзень працы |
Nationwide |
| 9 May | Saturday rest day | Victory Day
Дзень Перамогi |
Nationwide |
| 3 Jul | Friday | Independence Day
Дзень Незалежнасцi |
Nationwide |
| 7 Nov | Saturday rest day | October Revolution Day
Дзень Кастрычніцкай рэвалюцыі |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Catholic Christmas Day
Каляды каталiцкiя |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 3 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April 1 holiday
May 2 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August
September
October
November 1 holiday
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Belarus in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Belarus. 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.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: International Women's Day (8 Mar), Victory Day (9 May), October Revolution Day (7 Nov). 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 January the shortest with 19. A gap of 3 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).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 10, Belarus sits below the middle of the range, around the 24th 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 4 days, from 1 January to 4 January (New Year's Day). There is also one bridge day: 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 2026.