Türkiye public holidays 2027
Türkiye has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Yılbaşı |
Nationwide |
| 10 Mar | Wednesday | Eid al-Fitr First Day (Tentative Date)
Ramazan Bayramı 1. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 11 Mar | Thursday | Eid al-Fitr Second Day (Tentative Date)
Ramazan Bayramı 2. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 12 Mar | Friday | Eid al-Fitr Third Day (Tentative Date)
Ramazan Bayramı 3. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 23 Apr | Friday | National Independence & Children's Day
Ulusal Egemenlik ve Çocuk Bayramı |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
İşçi Bayramı |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Eid al-Adha First Day (Tentative Date)
Kurban Bayramı 1. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 17 May | Monday | Eid al-Adha Second Day (Tentative Date)
Kurban Bayramı 2. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 18 May | Tuesday | Eid al-Adha Third Day (Tentative Date)
Kurban Bayramı 3. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 19 May | Wednesday | Atatürk Commemoration & Youth Day
Atatürk'ü Anma, Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı |
Nationwide |
| 19 May | Wednesday | Eid al-Adha Fourth Day (Tentative Date)
Kurban Bayramı 4. Gün (Tentative Date) |
Nationwide |
| 15 Jul | Thursday | Democracy and National Unity Day
Demokrasi ve Millî Birlik Günü |
Nationwide |
| 30 Aug | Monday | Victory Day
Zafer Bayramı |
Nationwide |
| 29 Oct | Friday | Republic Day
Cumhuriyet Bayramı |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 5 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Türkiye in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Türkiye. 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Labour Day (1 May), Eid al-Adha First Day (Tentative Date) (16 May). 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and May 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working days, so 2027gives you 1 fewer working day.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 14, Türkiye sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 10 March to 14 March (Eid al-Fitr First Day (Tentative Date), Eid al-Fitr Second Day (Tentative Date), Eid al-Fitr Third Day (Tentative Date)). 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.