Swedish Public Holidays 2026, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 2026. In bold text is marked official Swedish public holidays (bank holidays). With regular text is marked days counted as a Sunday eventhough they are not officially a public holiday. Marked with regular text are also days which are sometimes counted as half working days as many companies ans shops are closed or have shorter opening hours. See the right column for comments related to each public holiday.

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2025

Public Holidays 2026

2027

Date	Day	Holiday
2026-01-01	Thursday	New Year's Day
2026-01-05	Monday	Twelfth Day Eve *
2026-01-06	Tuesday	Epiphany
2026-04-02	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
2026-04-03	Friday	Good Friday
2026-04-04	Saturday	Holy Saturday
2026-04-05	Sunday	Easter Day
2026-04-06	Monday	Easter Monday
2026-04-11	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
2026-04-12	Sunday	Whit Sunday
2026-04-30	Thursday	Walpurgis Eve *
2026-05-01	Friday	May 1st
2026-05-14	Thursday	Ascension Day
2026-06-06	Saturday	Sweden's National Day
2026-06-19	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
2026-06-20	Saturday	Midsummer Day
2026-10-30	Friday	All Saints Eve *
2026-10-31	Saturday	All Saints day
2026-12-24	Thursday	Christmas Eve #
2026-12-25	Friday	Christmas Day
2026-12-26	Saturday	Boxing Day
2026-12-31	Thursday	New Year's eve #

* = Not an official public holiday, but is often a half working day

# = Counted as a Sunday and is work free according to Swedish vacation legislation