Public holidays in Croatia

Holidays in Croatia

Date	English name	Local name	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	Nova Godina
January 6	Epiphany	Bogojavljenje, Sveta tri kralja
Easter and the day after	Easter and Easter Monday	Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak	variable date
May 1	International Workers' Day	Međunarodni praznik rada
60 days post Easter	Corpus Christi	Tijelovo	variable date
June 22	Anti-Fascist Struggle Day	Dan antifašističke borbe
June 25	Statehood Day	Dan državnosti
August 5	Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders	Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja
August 15	Assumption of Mary	Velika Gospa
October 8	Independence Day	Dan neovisnosti
November 1	All Saints day	Dan svih svetih
December 25	Christmas	Božić
December 26	St. Stephen's Day	Prvi dan po Božiću, Sveti Stjepan, Štefanje

Note: Citizens of the Republic of Croatia who celebrate different religious holidays have the right not to work on those dates. This includes Christians who celebrate Christmas on January 7 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.

Unofficial holidays

• Carnival celebrations are held in most cities and towns on Shrove Tuesday (Pokladni utorak).
• Some cities have de facto public holidays on the days of their patron saints. For example, Split celebrates Saint Duje on May 7, while Dubrovnik marks the day of Saint Blaise (sv. Vlaho) on February 3.

References

• Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj, from Narodne novine 136/2002 (Croatian)
• Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama zakona o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj, from Narodne novine 55/2008 (Croatian)