Czechia public holidays 2027
Czechia has 13 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Den obnovy samostatného českého státu; Nový rok |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Velký pátek |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Velikonoční pondělí |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Svátek práce |
Nationwide |
| 8 May | Saturday rest day | Liberation Day
Den vítězství |
Nationwide |
| 5 Jul | Monday | Saints Cyril and Methodius Day
Den slovanských věrozvěstů Cyrila a Metoděje |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jul | Tuesday | Jan Hus Day
Den upálení mistra Jana Husa |
Nationwide |
| 28 Sep | Tuesday | St. Wenceslas Day
Den české státnosti |
Nationwide |
| 28 Oct | Thursday | Independent Czechoslovak State Day
Den vzniku samostatného československého státu |
Nationwide |
| 17 Nov | Wednesday | Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day
Den boje za svobodu a demokracii a Mezinárodní den studentstva |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Christmas Eve
Štědrý den |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
1. svátek vánoční |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
2. svátek vánoční |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 2 holidays
June
July 2 holidays
August
September 1 holiday
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
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 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Czechia in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Czechia. 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.
4 holidays land on a rest day this year: Labour Day (1 May), Liberation Day (8 May), 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and October the shortest with 20. A gap of 2 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 250working 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 13, Czechia sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th 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 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). 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 2027.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Monday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.
How holidays work in Czechia
Czech public holidays are almost all fixed to a calendar date rather than to a day of the week. That makes the calendar easy to predict well in advance, including how much the working year will change from one year to the next.
There is no substitute day when a holiday lands on a Saturday or Sunday, so the working year moves by several days depending on how the dates fall. When a number of the fixed holidays hit the weekend, Czechia ends up with one of the longer working years in central Europe; in a kinder year it is one of the shorter ones.