Bosnia and Herzegovina public holidays 2026
Bosnia and Herzegovina has 4 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 258 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Tuesday | Christmas Eve (Orthodox)
Božić (za pravoslavce) |
BA-SRP |
| 7 Jan | Wednesday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Božić (za pravoslavce) |
BA-SRP |
| 1 Mar | Sunday rest day | Independence day
Dan nezavisnosti Bosne i Hercegovine |
BA-BIH |
| 10 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Veliki petak |
BA-SRP |
| 12 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Vaskrs (Uskrs) |
BA-SRP |
| 13 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Vaskrsni (Uskrsni) ponedeljak |
BA-SRP |
| 1 May | Friday | May Day / International Workers' Day
Praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 2 May | Saturday rest day | May Day / International Workers' Day
Praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 9 May | Saturday rest day | Victory Day over fascism
Dan pobjede nad fašizmom |
BA-SRP |
| 21 Nov | Saturday rest day | Day of the establishment of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH
Dan uspostavljanja Opšteg okvirnog sporazuma za mir u BiH |
BA-SRP |
| 25 Nov | Wednesday | Statehood Day
Dan državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine |
BA-BIH |
| 24 Dec | Thursday | Christmas Eve (Roman Catholic)
Božić (za rimokatolike) |
BA-BIH |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day (Roman Catholic)
Božić (za rimokatolike) |
BA-BIH |
The 11 regional dates above are observed only in part of the country and are left out of every national total on this page.
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April
May 2 holidays
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 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 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 3 | 258 | 2,064 |
What the numbers say about Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 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.
1 holiday lands on a rest day this year: May Day / International Workers' Day (2 May). 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.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and May the shortest with 20. 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 62 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 4, Bosnia and Herzegovina sits below the middle of the range, around the 2nd 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 4 days, from 1 January to 4 January (New Year's Day). See every long weekend in 2026.