Holiday Calendar for Malta

Tuesday 1 April - Freedom Day in Malta (the anniversary of the closure of the English base, celebrated since 1979)

Friday 18 April - Good Friday

Thursday 1 May - May Crownings or the Virgin Mary Month (Catholic Church tradition); International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Sunday 11 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Tuesday 27 May - Emergency Medicine Day

Sunday 1 June - World Naturist Day (Starts on the first Sunday of June in the northern hemisphere and on the first Sunday of December in the southern hemisphere)

Saturday 7 June - Sette Giugno in Malta

Sunday 15 June - Father's Day (Сelebrated on the third Sunday of June шт Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kenya, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, United Kingdom)

Sunday 29 June - Wine Battle Memorial Day (Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, Malta, Peru, Rome Italy, Sao Paulo, Chile, Spain); l-Imnarja in Malta; The festival of insight or the Day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Malta, Switzerland...)

Friday 15 August - 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)

Monday 8 September - Victory Day in Malta (also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja)

Sunday 21 September - Malta Independence Day (celebrates the independence of Malta from the United Kingdom in 1964)

Saturday 13 December - Republic Day in Malta; Saint Lucy's Day (mainly Scandinavia, some regions of Italy for example, Sicily, Veneto and Trentino, and Malta)

Thursday 25 December - Christmas Day

Thursday 1 January - New Year’s Day

Tuesday 10 February - Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck in Malta

Wednesday 11 February - Maltese Carnival

Sunday 15 February - People's Sunday in Malta (celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent)

Thursday 19 March - St. Joseph's Day (Italy, Malta, Liechtenstein)

Tuesday 31 March - Freedom Day in Malta (This important milestone was achieved during 1979 when the complete withdrawal of the British troops and Royal Navy marines left the island)