Bulgaria public holidays 2026
Bulgaria has 15 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 249 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Нова година |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Friday | Currency change day
Ден на валутната смяна |
Nationwide |
| 3 Mar | Tuesday | Liberation Day
Ден на oсвобождението на България от Oсманско робство |
Nationwide |
| 10 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Разпети петък |
Nationwide |
| 11 Apr | Saturday rest day | Holy Saturday
Велика събота |
Nationwide |
| 12 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Великден |
Nationwide |
| 13 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Велики понеделник |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | International Workers' Day
Ден на труда и на международната работническа солидарност |
Nationwide |
| 6 May | Wednesday | Saint George's Day
Гергьовден, ден на храбростта и Българската армия |
Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Saints Cyril and Methodius Day
Ден на Българската просвета и култура и на славянската писменост |
Nationwide |
| 7 Sep | Monday | Unification Day
Ден на съединението |
Nationwide |
| 22 Sep | Tuesday | Independence Day
Ден на независимостта на България |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Thursday | Christmas Eve
Бъдни вечер |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Рождество Христово |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | Second day of Christmas
Рождество Христово |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April 4 holidays
May 3 holidays
June
July
August
September 2 holidays
October
November
December 3 holidays
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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 | 1,992 |
What the numbers say about Bulgaria in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Bulgaria. 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: Holy Saturday (11 Apr), Easter Sunday (12 Apr), Second day of Christmas (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.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and May the shortest with 18. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 60 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 15, Bulgaria sits above the middle of the range, around the 82nd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 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, Currency change 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 2026.