Hungary public holidays 2027
Hungary has 13 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 254 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Újév |
Nationwide |
| 15 Mar | Monday | 1848 Revolution Memorial Day
Nemzeti ünnep |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Nagypéntek |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Húsvétvasárnap |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Húsvéthétfő |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour day
A munka ünnepe |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pünkösdvasárnap |
Nationwide |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday
Pünkösdhétfő |
Nationwide |
| 20 Aug | Friday | State Foundation Day
Az államalapítás ünnepe |
Nationwide |
| 23 Oct | Saturday rest day | 1956 Revolution Memorial Day
Nemzeti ünnep |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Saints Day
Mindenszentek |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Karácsony |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Karácsony másnapja |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 4 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June
July
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 2 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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Hungary in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Hungary. 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), Labour day (1 May), Pentecost (16 May), 1956 Revolution Memorial Day (23 Oct), 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 May 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, Q1 is the leanest at 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 253working 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 13, Hungary sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). See every long weekend in 2027.
5 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Pentecost, Whit Monday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.
How holidays work in Hungary
Hungary routinely reshuffles working days around its holidays. If a holiday lands on a Tuesday or Thursday, the bridge day next to it is often made a rest day, and a nearby Saturday becomes a working day to make up for it. These swaps are set by ministerial decree, normally announced well ahead of time, and they apply to the public sector and to a large share of private employers.
That has a practical effect on the figures here. A count based only on weekends and holidays will not match Hungary's official working calendar in any year that includes swaps. The yearly total will be close, but individual months can be out by as much as two days either way. For monthly calculations in Hungary, rely on the decree, not on this page.