Ukraine public holidays 2027
Ukraine has 11 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 255 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Новий Рік |
Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Monday | International Women's Day
Міжнародний жіночий день |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | International Workers' Day
День праці |
Nationwide |
| 2 May | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Великдень |
Nationwide |
| 8 May | Saturday rest day | Victory day over Nazism in World War II
День перемоги над нацизмом у Другій світовій війні |
Nationwide |
| 20 Jun | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Трійця |
Nationwide |
| 28 Jun | Monday | Constitution Day
День Конституції |
Nationwide |
| 15 Jul | Thursday | Statehood Day
День Української Державності |
Nationwide |
| 24 Aug | Tuesday | Independence Day
День Незалежності |
Nationwide |
| 1 Oct | Friday | Defender of Ukraine Day
День захисників і захисниць України |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Різдво Христове |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 1 holiday
April
May 3 holidays
June 2 holidays
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 1 holiday
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 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 6 | 255 | 2,040 |
What the numbers say about Ukraine in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Ukraine. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: International Workers' Day (1 May), Easter Sunday (2 May), Victory day over Nazism in World War II (8 May), Pentecost (20 Jun), Christmas Day (25 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and October the shortest with 20. 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 62 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 254working days, so 2027gives you 1 more 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 11, Ukraine sits below the middle of the range, around the 38th 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 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.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: Easter Sunday, Pentecost. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.