Public holidays in Croatia are regulated by the Holidays, Memorial Days and Non-Working Days Act (Croatian : Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima [1] ).
Public Holidays (non-working) | |||||
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Date | English name | Croatian name | moveable 2024 date | moveable 2025 date | Remarks |
1 January | New Year's Day | Nova godina | |||
6 January | Epiphany | Sveta tri kralja | |||
moveable | Easter | Uskrs | 31 March | 20 April | |
moveable | Easter Monday | Uskrsni ponedjeljak | 1 April | 21 April | |
1 May | Labour Day | Praznik rada | |||
30 May | National Day | Dan državnosti | Holiday from 1991 until 2001 and since 2020* | ||
moveable | Corpus Christi | Tijelovo | 30 May | 19 June | |
22 June | Anti-Fascist Struggle Day | Dan antifašističke borbe | |||
5 August | Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day | Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti | |||
15 August | Assumption of Mary | Velika Gospa | |||
1 November | All Saints' Day | Dan svih svetih | |||
18 November | Homeland War Victims Remembrance Day | Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata | Holiday since 2020* | ||
25 December | Christmas Day | Božić | |||
26 December | Saint Stephen's Day | Sveti Stjepan |
* In 2020 there was a change in holidays: June 25 (was Statehood Day until 2019, became Independence Day in 2020) and October 8 (was Independence Day until 2019, became Day of the Croatian Parliament in 2020) changed names and were demoted from public holidays to memorial days (working). May 30 (was Day of the Croatian Parliament until 2019, became National Day in 2020) was promoted from a memorial day to a public holiday, and November 18 (Homeland War Victims Remembrance Day) was added as a new public holiday.
Note: Citizens of the Republic of Croatia who celebrate different religious holidays have the right not to work on those dates. Christians who celebrate Christmas, Easter and Easter Monday per the Julian calendar, Muslims on the days of Ramadan Bayram and Kurban Bayram, and Jews on the days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Memorial Days (working) | |||
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Date | English name | Croatian Name | remark |
9 January | Day of Unification of Medimurje with its Parent Body Croatia | Dan sjedinjenja Medimurja s maticom zemljom Hrvatskom | |
15 January | Day of international recognition of the Republic of Croatia and Day of peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube Region | Dan međunarodnoga priznanja Republike Hrvatske i Dan mirne reintegracije hrvatskog Podunavlja | |
15 March | Day of founding of the People's Protection | Dan osnivanja Narodne zaštite | |
30 April | Day of the Death of Zrinski and Frankopan | Dan pogibije Zrinskog i Frankopana | |
9 May | Europe Day and | Dan Europe i Dan pobjede nad fašizmom | |
moveable | Day of Remembrance of Croatian Victims in the Fight for Freedom and Independence | Dan spomena na hrvatske žrtve u borbi za slobodu i nezavisnost | Saturday/Sunday nearest to 15 May |
25 June | Independence Day | Dan neovisnosti | was a Holiday until 2020 |
23 August | European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism | Europski dan sjećanja na žrtve totalitarnih i autoritarnih režima – nacizma, fašizma i komunizma | |
30 August | Day of Remembrance of Missing Persons in the War of Independence | Dan sjećanja na nestale osobe u Domovinskom ratu | |
25 September | Day of the Decision about the Unification of Istria, Rijeka, Zadar and the Islands with the Parent Body Croatia | Dan donošenja Odluke o sjedinjenju Istre, Rijeke, Zadra i otoka s maticom zemljom Hrvatskom | |
8 October | Day of the Croatian Parliament | Dan Hrvatskoga sabora | was a Holiday until 2020 |
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