Bosnia and Herzegovina public holidays 2027
Bosnia and Herzegovina has 4 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 260 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | New Year's Day
Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Christmas Eve (Orthodox)
Božić (za pravoslavce) |
BA-SRP |
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Božić (za pravoslavce) |
BA-SRP |
| 1 Mar | Monday | Independence day
Dan nezavisnosti Bosne i Hercegovine |
BA-BIH |
| 30 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Veliki petak |
BA-SRP |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | May Day / International Workers' Day
Praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 2 May | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Vaskrs (Uskrs) |
BA-SRP |
| 2 May | Sunday rest day | May Day / International Workers' Day
Praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Easter Monday
Vaskrsni (Uskrsni) ponedeljak |
BA-SRP |
| 9 May | Sunday rest day | Victory Day over fascism
Dan pobjede nad fašizmom |
BA-SRP |
| 21 Nov | Sunday 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 | Thursday | Statehood Day
Dan državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine |
BA-BIH |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Christmas Eve (Roman Catholic)
Božić (za rimokatolike) |
BA-BIH |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | 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.
2027 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 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 1 | 260 | 2,080 |
What the numbers say about Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2027
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.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (2 Jan), May Day / International Workers' Day (1 May), 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.
March is the longest working month with 23 days, and February 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 63 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 258working days, so 2027gives you 2 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 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 1 stretch of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). See every long weekend in 2027.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: New Year's Day, May Day / International Workers' Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.