Italy public holidays 2026
Italy has 13 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 254 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Capodanno |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Tuesday | Epiphany
Epifania |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Pasqua |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Lunedì dell'Angelo |
Nationwide |
| 25 Apr | Saturday rest day | Liberation Day
Festa della Liberazione |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | International Workers Day
Festa del Lavoro |
Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Whit Monday
Lunedì di Pentecoste |
IT-32 |
| 2 Jun | Tuesday | Republic Day
Festa della Repubblica |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Saturday rest day | Assumption Day
Ferragosto o Assunzione |
Nationwide |
| 4 Oct | Sunday rest day | St. Francis of Assisi's Day
San Francesco d'Assisi |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Sunday rest day | All Saints Day
Tutti i Santi |
Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception
Immacolata Concezione |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Natale |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Santo Stefano |
Nationwide |
The 1 regional date above is observed only in part of the country and is left out of every national total on this page.
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 3 holidays
May 1 holiday
June 1 holiday
July
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Italy in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Italy. 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 (5 Apr), Liberation Day (25 Apr), Assumption Day (15 Aug), St. Francis of Assisi's Day (4 Oct), All Saints Day (1 Nov), 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.
July 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 62 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 13, Italy sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th 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 4 April to 6 April (Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). 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 2026.
How holidays work in Italy
When an Italian public holiday falls on a Sunday, it is not replaced; the day off is simply lost. That alone makes the number of working days in Italy swing more from year to year than in countries with substitution rules.
Each comune also celebrates its patron saint, and in the big cities this means real closures, not a symbolic date. Milan stops on 7 December for Sant'Ambrogio, Rome on 29 June and Naples on 19 September, while Florence, Genoa and Turin all mark 24 June. These are left out of the national figures shown here.
August needs its own warning. Ferragosto on 15 August counts as only one public holiday, yet large parts of Italian manufacturing and many professional firms shut for a week or more around it. Read the August working day figure as the most you could expect, not as a realistic plan.