Romania public holidays 2027
Romania has 17 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Anul Nou |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | Day after New Year's Day
Anul Nou |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Epiphany
Bobotează |
Nationwide |
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Saint John the Baptist
Sfântul Ion |
Nationwide |
| 24 Jan | Sunday rest day | Union Day/Small Union
Unirea Principatelor Române/Mica Unire |
Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Vinerea mare |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Ziua Muncii |
Nationwide |
| 2 May | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Paștele |
Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Easter Monday
Paștele |
Nationwide |
| 1 Jun | Tuesday | Children's Day
Ziua Copilului |
Nationwide |
| 20 Jun | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Rusaliile |
Nationwide |
| 21 Jun | Monday | Whit Monday
Rusaliile |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Dormition of the Theotokos
Adormirea Maicii Domnului/Sfânta Maria Mare |
Nationwide |
| 30 Nov | Tuesday | St. Andrew's Day
Sfântul Andrei |
Nationwide |
| 1 Dec | Wednesday | National Day/Great Union
Ziua Națională/Marea Unire |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Crăciunul |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Crăciunul |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 5 holidays
February
March
April 1 holiday
May 3 holidays
June 3 holidays
July
August 1 holiday
September
October
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Romania in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Romania. 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.
8 holidays land on a rest day this year: Day after New Year's Day (2 Jan), Union Day/Small Union (24 Jan), Labour Day (1 May), Easter Sunday (2 May), Pentecost (20 Jun), Dormition of the Theotokos (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 23 days, and January the shortest with 18. 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 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 250working days, so 2027gives you 2 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 17, Romania sits above the middle of the range, around the 91st 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 4 days, from 30 April to 3 May (Good Friday, Labour Day, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). There are also 3 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.
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 Romania
Romania's spring holidays follow Orthodox Easter, which is calculated on the Julian rule and can be weeks away from Western Easter. Pentecost is also observed according to the Orthodox calendar.
There is no general rule replacing holidays that fall on a weekend, so the number of working days varies from year to year. Romania has also introduced several new public holidays over the past decade or so, which makes comparisons with older data unreliable.