Public holidays in Sweden, 2028
Sweden observes 16 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 Nyårsdagen |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 6 Jan | Thursday | Epiphany Trettondedag jul |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 14 Apr | Friday | Good Friday Långfredagen |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 16 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Påskdagen |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 17 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday Annandag påsk |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 1 May | Monday | International Workers' Day Första maj |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 25 May | Thursday | Ascension Day Kristi himmelsfärdsdag |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 4 Jun | Sunday Weekend | Pentecost Pingstdagen |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 6 Jun | Tuesday | National Day of Sweden Sveriges nationaldag |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 23 Jun | Friday | Midsummer Eve Midsommarafton |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 24 Jun | Saturday Weekend | Midsummer Day Midsommardagen |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 4 Nov | Saturday Weekend | All Saints' Day Alla helgons dag |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 24 Dec | Sunday Weekend | Christmas Eve Julafton |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 25 Dec | Monday | Christmas Day Juldagen |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 26 Dec | Tuesday | St. Stephen's Day Annandag jul |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 31 Dec | Sunday Weekend | New Year's Eve Nyårsafton |
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 | 2 | 18 | 144 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| September | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| 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 Sweden. 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.
7 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), Midsummer Day (24 Jun), All Saints' Day (4 Nov), Christmas Eve (24 Dec), New Year's Eve (31 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 April at 18. That spread of 5 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 59 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, Sweden's 16 nationwide holidays put it above the median of 12, around the 88th percentile. The range across all countries this year runs from 3 to 50.
The holidays produce 4 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 4 days, from 14 April 2028 to 17 April 2028, built around Good Friday and Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. A further 3 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.
8 of this year's holidays sit on a different calendar date than in 2027: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Midsummer Eve and others. 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 Sweden
Sweden gets a stable working year almost by accident. Midsummer Day and All Saints' Day are both
tied to particular Saturdays, so they never remove a working day, and several other dates fall
predictably. The result is much less year to year variation than in countries with fixed calendar
dates.
Against that, three of the most complete shutdowns in the Swedish year are not public holidays at
all. Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are ordinary days in law and closed days in
practice for most of the country. None of them are deducted in the figures here.
The klämdag, the squeeze day trapped between a holiday and a weekend, is the other gap. It is
taken as leave rather than granted, so it does not appear in any holiday count, but staffing in
those weeks is thin.