Holiday Calendar for Poland

Tuesday 31 December - Sylwester in Poland (In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the new year)

Wednesday 1 January - New Year’s Day

Monday 6 January - Three Kings’ Day or Epiphany

Tuesday 21 January - Grandmother's Day in Poland

Wednesday 22 January - Grandfather's Day in Poland

Saturday 25 January - The bird wedding (is an annual custom known in some European regions, but especially in the Sorbs in Lusatia. Here it is called Lower Sorbian Ptaškowa swajźba and Upper Sorbian Ptači kwas)

Saturday 8 February - Penitentiary Service Day in Poland (Prison service was established in 1919 and a Polish prison designated on February 8 (from 2011) pursuant to the Act on the Prison Service of April 9, 2010)

Tuesday 11 February - Day of help to forest animals in Poland

Friday 14 February - Epilepsy Day in Poland (It was launched on 14th 2009 in the form of an event in Warsaw); Valentine’s Day

Monday 17 February - Cat's Day in Poland

Saturday 22 February - European Day for Equal Pay Men and Women

Saturday 1 March - National “Cursed Soldiers” Remembrance Day in Poland

Monday 3 March - Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois

Tuesday 4 March - St Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania); Casimir Pulaski Day in Wisconsin

Saturday 8 March - International Women’s Day

Sunday 9 March - Polish Statistics Day

Monday 10 March - Men's Day in Poland

Wednesday 19 March - Kashubian Unity Day in Poland

Friday 21 March - Truant's Day (Poland, Faroe Islands)

Sunday 23 March - Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland)

Sunday 6 April - ABW Day in Poland (Polish counter-intelligence agency's - ABW - holiday, celebrated since 2004)

Sunday 13 April - Katyn Memorial Day in Poland

Friday 18 April - Coma Patients' Day in Poland (Dzień Pacjenta w Śpiączce)

Saturday 19 April - Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered on April 19); Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943

Sunday 20 April - Easter

Monday 21 April - Dyngus Day (It is very popular in Poland, as well as in Polish communities across America)

Friday 25 April - Day of Prison Guards in Poland (the date refers to the events of 1926)

Saturday 26 April - International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April)

Thursday 1 May - Majówka (is a spring festival celebrated throughout Europe); EU Accession Day in Poland; May Crownings or the Virgin Mary Month (Catholic Church tradition); International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Friday 2 May - Flag Day in Poland (Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej)

Saturday 3 May - Constitution Day in Poland

Sunday 4 May - Steelworker's Day or Metallurgist's Day in Poland (Metal and Mining Workers' Day)

Thursday 8 May - Victory Day in Poland and Czech (Narodowy Dzień Zwycięstwa in Poland established in 2015; Liberation Day in Czech Republic)

Friday 9 May - Europe Day (is the name of two annual observance days, 5 May by the Council of Europe and 9 May by the European Union, which recognize the peace and prosperity within Europe that both have achieved since their formation)

Sunday 11 May - Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints

Friday 16 May - Polish Border Guard Day

Sunday 25 May - International Day of Heroes of the Fight against Totalitarianism

Monday 26 May - Mother's Day in Poland

Thursday 29 May - International Day of UN Peacekeepers

Saturday 31 May - World No Tobacco Day

Sunday 8 June - Day of the Holy Trinity. Pentecost

Tuesday 10 June - International Heraldry Day

Monday 23 June - Father's Day in Nicaragua and Poland; St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations (Roman Catholic Church, Europe: - Bonfires of Saint John in Spain; Festa del Poble in Andorra; First night of Festa de São João do Porto; First day of Golowan Festival in Cornwall; Jaaniõhtu in Estonia; Jāņi in Latvia; Kupala Night in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine; Last day of Drăgaica fair in Buzău, Romania)

Saturday 28 June - Poznań Remembrance Day in Poland

Tuesday 1 July - National Dog's Day in Poland

Friday 11 July - National Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Genocide Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Polish Republic (Narodowy Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Ludobójstwa dokonanego przez ukraińskich nacjonalistów na obywatelach II Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, set on the anniversary of the "bloody sunday" in Volhynia, the culmination of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, established in 2016)

Thursday 24 July - Poland Police Day (Święto Policji)

Thursday 31 July - Treasury Day in Poland

Friday 1 August - National Day of Remembrance of the Warsaw Uprising in Poland

Saturday 2 August - Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti in Poland (Dzień Pamięci o Zagładzie Romów i Sinti, set on the anniversary of the Roma and Sinti exterminaton at Auschwitz concentration camp, established in 2011)

Thursday 7 August - Pol'and'Rock Festival

Thursday 14 August - Energy Engineer's Day in Poland

Friday 15 August - Armed Forces Day in Poland; Feast day of the Assumption of Mary (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu)

Friday 29 August - Municipal Police's Day in Poland

Sunday 31 August - Day of Solidarity and Freedom in Poland (It commemorates the August Agreement of 1980); International Solidarity Day

Monday 1 September - Veteran's Day in Poland; The day Germany invaded Poland in 1939 (triggering World War II)

Monday 8 September - Nativity of the Virgin Mary

Wednesday 17 September - Sybirak's Day in Poland

Sunday 21 September - Customs Service Day in Poland

Friday 26 September - European Researchers' Night

Saturday 27 September - Polish Underground State's Day

Tuesday 30 September - Boy's Day in Poland

Friday 3 October - World Multiplication Table Day (Held on the first Friday in October)

Saturday 4 October - Animals' Day in Poland (Dzień Zwierząt, established in 2006); World Animal Day

Friday 10 October - Arbor Day in Poland (Święta Drzewa)

Monday 13 October - Paramedics' Day in Poland

Tuesday 14 October - National Education Day in Poland (formerly Teachers' Day)

Thursday 16 October - Day of Pope John Paul II in Poland

Saturday 18 October - Polish Post Day or Postman's Day

Friday 31 October - Halloween

Tuesday 11 November - Civil Service Day in Poland (celebrated since 2000); Independence Day of Poland (de. Polen Unabhängigkeit)

Saturday 15 November - Memorial Day of Raphael Kalinowski in Poland; European Dystonia Day

Sunday 16 November - Foreign Service Day in Poland (Dzień Służby Zagranicznej RP)

Thursday 4 December - Miner's Day in Poland (Barbórka)

Saturday 6 December - Mikołajki in Poland (on December 6 - on this day Santa Claus gives sweets to children)

Saturday 13 December - Martial Law Victims Remembrance Day in Poland (Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Stanu Wojennego)

Thursday 25 December - Christmas Day

Friday 26 December - St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Andorra, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland); Second day of Christmas (Western Christianity. Public holiday in the Netherlands, Poland, Norway); Day after Christmas