Montenegro public holidays 2027
Montenegro has 20 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 248 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nova godina |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | New Year's Day
Nova godina |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Orthodox Christmas Eve
Badnji dan |
Nationwide |
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Božić |
Nationwide |
| 8 Jan | Friday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Božić |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Veliki petak |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Uskrs |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Uskrs |
Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Vaskrs |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 2 May | Sunday rest day | Labour Day
Praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Easter Monday
Vaskrs |
Nationwide |
| 21 May | Friday | Independence Day
Dan nezavisnosti |
Nationwide |
| 22 May | Saturday rest day | Independence Day
Dan nezavisnosti |
Nationwide |
| 13 Jul | Tuesday | Statehood Day
Dan državnosti |
Nationwide |
| 14 Jul | Wednesday | Statehood Day
Dan državnosti |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | Catholic All Saints' Day
Svi Sveti |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Catholic Christmas Eve
Badnji dan |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Catholic Christmas Day
Božić |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | Catholic St. Stephen's Day
Božić |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 5 holidays
February
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 5 holidays
June
July 2 holidays
August
September
October
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 136 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 13 | 248 | 1,984 |
What the numbers say about Montenegro in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Montenegro. 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.
7 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (2 Jan), Easter Sunday (28 Mar), Labour Day (1 May), Labour Day (2 May), Independence Day (22 May), Catholic Christmas Day (25 Dec), Catholic 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 January the shortest with 17. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 58 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 245working days, so 2027gives you 3 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 20, Montenegro sits above the middle of the range, around the 96th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 7 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 6 January to 10 January (Orthodox Christmas Eve, Christmas Day (Orthodox)). There is also one bridge day: 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.
10 holidays change date compared with 2026: New Year's Day, Christmas Day (Orthodox), Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Good Friday and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.