Public holidays in Croatia, 2025
Croatia observes 14 nationwide public holidays in 2025. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 250 days.
Every public holiday in 2025
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, 1 Jan | Wednesday | New Year's Day Nova Godina |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 6 Jan | Monday | Epiphany Bogojavljenje, Sveta tri kralja |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 20 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 21 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 1 May | Thursday | International Workers' Day Međunarodni praznik rada |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 30 May | Friday | National Day Dan državnosti |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 19 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi Tijelovo |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 22 Jun | Sunday Weekend | Anti-Fascist Struggle Day Dan antifašističke borbe |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 5 Aug | Tuesday | Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 15 Aug | Friday | Assumption Day Velika Gospa |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 1 Nov | Saturday Weekend | All Saints' Day Dan svih svetih |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 18 Nov | Tuesday | Remembrance Day Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 25 Dec | Thursday | Christmas Day Božić |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 26 Dec | Friday | St. Stephen's Day Prvi dan po Božiću, Sveti Stjepan, Štefanje, Stipanje |
Nationwide |
Working days month by month
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend | Holidays | Working days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| Year | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
Reading these figures
The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Croatia. Only nationwide holidays are deducted; a date observed in one region alone still counts as a working day here, because a national figure that moved with regional calendars would describe nobody accurately.
3 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: Easter Sunday (20 Apr), Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (22 Jun), All Saints' Day (1 Nov). Whether these are compensated with a substitute day depends on national rules rather than on the calendar, so confirm before planning around them.
The longest working month is July at 23 days; the shortest is November at 19. That spread of 4 days matters for anything billed or accrued monthly, which is why payroll and capacity plans that assume an even year drift by the end of it. The thinnest quarter is Q2, carrying 61 working days across April, May, June.
Against the 204 countries covered here for 2025, Croatia's 14 nationwide holidays put it above the median of 12, around the 75th percentile. The range across all countries this year runs from 3 to 48.
The holidays produce 5 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 4 days, from 25 December 2025 to 28 December 2025, built around Christmas Day and St. Stephen's Day. A further 4 working days are stranded between a holiday and a weekend, where one day of leave buys a break of four days or more. The full breakdown is here.