Croatia public holidays 2026
Croatia has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Tuesday | Epiphany
Bogojavljenje, Sveta tri kralja |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | International Workers' Day
Međunarodni praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 30 May | Saturday rest day | National Day
Dan državnosti |
Nationwide |
| 4 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi
Tijelovo |
Nationwide |
| 22 Jun | Monday | Anti-Fascist Struggle Day
Dan antifašističke borbe |
Nationwide |
| 5 Aug | Wednesday | Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders
Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Saturday rest day | Assumption Day
Velika Gospa |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Sunday rest day | All Saints' Day
Dan svih svetih |
Nationwide |
| 18 Nov | Wednesday | Remembrance Day
Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Božić |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Prvi dan po Božiću, Sveti Stjepan, Štefanje, Stipanje |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 2 holidays
May 2 holidays
June 2 holidays
July
August 2 holidays
September
October
November 2 holidays
December 2 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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Croatia in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Croatia. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), National Day (30 May), Assumption Day (15 Aug), All Saints' Day (1 Nov), St. Stephen's Day (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 November 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, Q2 is the leanest at 61 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Croatia sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th 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 3 days, from 4 April to 6 April (Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). There are also 3 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.