Poland public holidays 2027
Poland has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nowy Rok |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Epiphany
Święto Trzech Króli |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Wielkanoc |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Drugi Dzień Wielkanocy |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | May Day
Święto Pracy |
Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Constitution Day
Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Zielone Świątki |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi
Boże Ciało |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Assumption Day
Wniebowzięcie Najświętszej Maryi Panny |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Saints' Day
Wszystkich Świętych |
Nationwide |
| 11 Nov | Thursday | Independence Day
Narodowe Święto Niepodległości |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Christmas Eve
Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Boże Narodzenie |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Drugi Dzień Bożego Narodzenia |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 4 holidays
June
July
August 1 holiday
September
October
November 2 holidays
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Poland in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Poland. 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), May Day (1 May), Pentecost (16 May), Assumption Day (15 Aug), 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.
March 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 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 253working days, so 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Poland sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th 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 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). 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.
4 holidays change date compared with 2026: Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Pentecost, Corpus Christi. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.
How holidays work in Poland
Polish labour law contains a rule few other countries have. If a public holiday falls on a Saturday, the employer must give staff another day off within the same settlement period. Weekend collisions are therefore compensated rather than swallowed, and the real number of working days is much steadier than the calendar suggests.
That compensation is not reflected in the counts on this page, because each employer picks the replacement day itself; it is not a fixed date we can place on a calendar. In a year with several Saturday holidays, expect the true working day total to be lower than the figure shown, by one day for each of them.