Belarus public holidays 2027
Belarus has 10 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Новы год |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | New Year's Day
Новы год |
Nationwide |
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Каляды праваслаўныя |
Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Monday | International Women's Day
Мiжнародны жаночы дзень |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Дзень працы |
Nationwide |
| 9 May | Sunday rest day | Victory Day
Дзень Перамогi |
Nationwide |
| 11 May | Tuesday | Commemoration Day
Радунiца |
Nationwide |
| 3 Jul | Saturday rest day | Independence Day
Дзень Незалежнасцi |
Nationwide |
| 7 Nov | Sunday rest day | October Revolution Day
Дзень Кастрычніцкай рэвалюцыі |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Catholic Christmas Day
Каляды каталiцкiя |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 3 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April
May 3 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 | 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 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 4 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about Belarus in 2027
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.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (2 Jan), Labour Day (1 May), Victory Day (9 May), Independence Day (3 Jul), October Revolution Day (7 Nov), Catholic Christmas Day (25 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and January the shortest with 19. 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 254working days, so 2027gives you 3 more working days.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 10, Belarus sits below the middle of the range, around the 25th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 2 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 2 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.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: New Year's Day, Commemoration Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.