Croatia public holidays 2027
Croatia has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Epiphany
Bogojavljenje, Sveta tri kralja |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | International Workers' Day
Međunarodni praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi
Tijelovo |
Nationwide |
| 30 May | Sunday rest day | National Day
Dan državnosti |
Nationwide |
| 22 Jun | Tuesday | Anti-Fascist Struggle Day
Dan antifašističke borbe |
Nationwide |
| 5 Aug | Thursday | Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders
Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Assumption Day
Velika Gospa |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Saints' Day
Dan svih svetih |
Nationwide |
| 18 Nov | Thursday | Remembrance Day
Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Božić |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Prvi dan po Božiću, Sveti Stjepan, Štefanje, Stipanje |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
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 | 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Croatia in 2027
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.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (28 Mar), International Workers' Day (1 May), National Day (30 May), Assumption Day (15 Aug), Christmas Day (25 Dec), 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.
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 252working days, so 2027gives you 1 more working day.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 14, Croatia sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 3 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 4 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.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Corpus Christi. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.