Public holidays in Italy, 2026
Italy observes 13 nationwide public holidays in 2026. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 254 days.
Every public holiday in 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day Capodanno |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 6 Jan | Tuesday | Epiphany Epifania |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 5 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Pasqua |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday Lunedì dell'Angelo |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 25 Apr | Saturday Weekend | Liberation Day Festa della Liberazione |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 1 May | Friday | International Workers Day Festa del Lavoro |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 25 May | Monday | Whit Monday Lunedì di Pentecoste |
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| Tue, 2 Jun | Tuesday | Republic Day Festa della Repubblica |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 15 Aug | Saturday Weekend | Assumption Day Ferragosto o Assunzione |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 4 Oct | Sunday Weekend | St. Francis of Assisi's Day San Francesco d'Assisi |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 1 Nov | Sunday Weekend | All Saints Day Tutti i Santi |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 8 Dec | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception Immacolata Concezione |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day Natale |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 26 Dec | Saturday Weekend | St. Stephen's Day Santo Stefano |
Nationwide |
1 further date is observed in some regions only and is not counted in the working day totals above.
Working days month by month
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend | Holidays | Working days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| Year | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
Reading these figures
The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Italy. 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.
6 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Liberation Day (25 Apr), Assumption Day (15 Aug), St. Francis of Assisi's Day (4 Oct), All Saints Day (1 Nov), St. Stephen's Day (26 Dec). 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 May at 20. That spread of 3 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 Q1, carrying 62 working days across January, February, March.
Compared with 2025, which held 251 working days, 2026 is 3 working days longer. Where a target is carried over from one year to the next unchanged, that difference is absorbed silently unless someone accounts for it.
Against the 204 countries covered here for 2026, Italy's 13 nationwide holidays put it above the median of 12, around the 64th percentile. The range across all countries this year runs from 3 to 49.
The holidays produce 3 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 3 days, from 4 April 2026 to 6 April 2026, built around Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. 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.
2 of this year's holidays sit on a different calendar date than in 2025: Easter Sunday, Easter Monday. Dates that move cannot be carried forward from last year's planning spreadsheet, which is the most common way a holiday is missed.
Notes on Italy
Italy applies no substitution rule. A public holiday that falls on a Sunday is lost, which makes
the Italian working year noticeably variable from one year to the next.
Alongside the national dates, every municipality observes its own patron saint's day, and in the
larger cities these are genuine closures rather than nominal ones: Milan on 7 December for
Sant'Ambrogio, Rome on 29 June, Naples on 19 September, and Florence, Genoa and Turin all on
24 June. None of them appear in the national count on this page.
August is the other thing a working day figure cannot convey. Ferragosto on 15 August is a
single public holiday, but a substantial part of Italian industry and much of the professional
sector closes for the surrounding weeks. Treat the August figure here as an upper bound rather
than a plan.