Greece public holidays 2026

What the numbers say about Greece in 2026

The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Greece. 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.

July is the longest working month with 23 days, and February 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 60 working days (January, February, March).

Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 15, Greece sits above the middle of the range, around the 82nd 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 4 days, from 10 April to 13 April (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 2026.

How holidays work in Greece

Greek holidays follow Orthodox Easter, which is calculated using the Julian rule. It usually falls on a different Sunday from Easter in Western churches, and the gap can be as much as five weeks.

Two other holidays move with it: Clean Monday, at the start of Lent, and Holy Spirit Monday, after Pentecost. Because all three shift together, they can fall in different months from one year to the next.

Greek law also separates holidays that are compulsory days off from those that are optional, where observance is up to the employer or a sector agreement. This page treats all nationwide holidays the same way, which will overstate time off for parts of the private sector.