Sweden public holidays 2027
Sweden has 16 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
Nyårsdagen |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Epiphany
Trettondedag jul |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Långfredagen |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Påskdagen |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Annandag påsk |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | International Workers' Day
Första maj |
Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Kristi himmelsfärdsdag |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pingstdagen |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jun | Sunday rest day | National Day of Sweden
Sveriges nationaldag |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jun | Friday | Midsummer Eve
Midsommarafton |
Nationwide |
| 26 Jun | Saturday rest day | Midsummer Day
Midsommardagen |
Nationwide |
| 6 Nov | Saturday rest day | All Saints' Day
Alla helgons dag |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday | Christmas Eve
Julafton |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Juldagen |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Annandag jul |
Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Friday | New Year's Eve
Nyårsafton |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 3 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June 3 holidays
July
August
September
October
November 1 holiday
December 4 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 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Sweden in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Sweden. 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: Easter Sunday (28 Mar), International Workers' Day (1 May), Pentecost (16 May), National Day of Sweden (6 Jun), Midsummer Day (26 Jun), All Saints' Day (6 Nov), 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and January 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working 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 16, Sweden sits above the middle of the range, around the 87th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 4 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). 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.
8 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Midsummer Eve and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.
How holidays work in Sweden
The Swedish calendar is unusually steady, largely by design. Midsummer Day and All Saints' Day are both defined as a particular Saturday, so neither ever takes away a working day, and a number of other dates fall in predictable places. Year to year swings are therefore much smaller than in countries where most holidays are fixed calendar dates.
The catch is that some of the quietest days of the Swedish year are not public holidays. Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are legally ordinary days, yet most of the country does not work. They are not subtracted here.
Watch also for the klämdag, the single working day stranded between a holiday and the weekend. It is not granted as a holiday, but so many people take it as leave that offices can be nearly empty.