Faroe Islands public holidays 2027
Faroe Islands has 17 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nýggjársdagur |
Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Thursday | Maundy Thursday
Skírhósdagur |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Langifríggjadagur |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Páskadagur |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
2. Páskadagur |
Nationwide |
| 23 Apr | Friday | General Prayer Day
Dýri biðidagur |
Nationwide |
| 25 Apr | Sunday rest day | National Flag Day
Flaggdagur |
Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Kristi himmalsferðar dagur |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Hvítasunnudagur |
Nationwide |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday
2. Hvítasunnudagur |
Nationwide |
| 5 Jun | Saturday rest day | Constitution Day
Grundlógardagur Danmarkar |
Nationwide |
| 28 Jul | Wednesday | Saint Olav's Eve
Ólavsøkuaftan |
Nationwide |
| 29 Jul | Thursday | Saint Olav's Day
Ólavsøkudagur |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Christmas Eve
Jólaaftanskvøld |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Jóladagur |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
2. Jóladagur |
Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Friday | New Year's Eve
Nýggjársaftan |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 4 holidays
April 2 holidays
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 2 holidays
August
September
October
November
December 4 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 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Faroe Islands in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Faroe Islands. 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), National Flag Day (25 Apr), Pentecost (16 May), Constitution Day (5 Jun), 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.
June is the longest working month with 22 days, and May the shortest with 19. 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 248working 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 17, Faroe Islands sits above the middle of the range, around the 91st percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 25 March to 29 March (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, 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.
8 holidays change date compared with 2026: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, General Prayer Day, Ascension Day and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.