Public holidays in Poland, 2028
Poland observes 14 nationwide public holidays in 2028. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 251 days.
Every public holiday in 2028
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, 1 Jan | Saturday Weekend | New Year's Day Nowy Rok |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 6 Jan | Thursday | Epiphany Święto Trzech Króli |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 16 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Wielkanoc |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 17 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday Drugi Dzień Wielkanocy |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 1 May | Monday | May Day Święto Pracy |
Nationwide |
| Wed, 3 May | Wednesday | Constitution Day Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 4 Jun | Sunday Weekend | Pentecost Zielone Świątki |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 15 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi Boże Ciało |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 15 Aug | Tuesday | Assumption Day Wniebowzięcie Najświętszej Maryi Panny |
Nationwide |
| Wed, 1 Nov | Wednesday | All Saints' Day Wszystkich Świętych |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 11 Nov | Saturday Weekend | Independence Day Narodowe Święto Niepodległości |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 24 Dec | Sunday Weekend | Christmas Eve Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 25 Dec | Monday | Christmas Day Boże Narodzenie |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 26 Dec | Tuesday | St. Stephen's Day Drugi Dzień Bożego Narodzenia |
Nationwide |
Working days month by month
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend | Holidays | Working days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 29 | 8 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| Year | 366 | 106 | 9 | 251 | 2,008 |
Reading these figures
The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Poland. 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.
5 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: New Year's Day (1 Jan), Easter Sunday (16 Apr), Pentecost (4 Jun), Independence Day (11 Nov), Christmas Eve (24 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 March at 23 days; the shortest is December 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.
Compared with 2027, which held 253 working days, 2028 is 2 working days shorter. 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 2028, Poland'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 50.
The holidays produce 3 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 4 days, from 23 December 2028 to 26 December 2028, built around Christmas Eve and 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.
4 of this year's holidays sit on a different calendar date than in 2027: Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Pentecost, Corpus Christi. 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 Poland
Poland has a rule that very few countries share: when a public holiday falls on a Saturday, the
employer must give an additional day off within the same settlement period. The Polish working
year therefore compensates for weekend collisions instead of absorbing them, and the number of
working days stays far steadier than the raw calendar would suggest.
The figures on this page do not model that compensation, because the replacement day is chosen by
the employer rather than fixed by the calendar. In a year with several Saturday holidays, the
real figure will be lower than the one shown here by the number of those collisions.