Holiday calendar in Sweden
Swedes traditionally celebrate their main holidays not on the Day but on the Eve of the holiday (Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, Midsummer Eve). The day before an official holiday is in most cases treated as a de facto holiday, so most employees working regular office hours do not work these days.
Help us List of Holidays in Sweden for 2024-2025 year
December 2024
Monday 9 December -
Anna's Day (Sweden, Finland and Norway. Marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna)
Friday 13 December -
Lucia Festival (a tradition that is widespread in the countries of Northern Europe: Sweden, Denmark, Norway);
Saint Lucia Day (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and parts of Italy. Dedicated to Saint Lucia's independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)
January 2025
February 2025
March 2025
April 2025
Wednesday 30 April -
King Day in Sweden (Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustaf, one of the official flag days of Sweden);
May Eve (the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere; Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere, Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere; Carodejnice in Czech Republic and Slovakia; Walpurgis Night - Central and Northern Europe)
May 2025
Sunday 25 May -
Mother's Day in France (also Algeria, Dominican Republic. First Sunday of June, if Pentecost occurs on this day, Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia; celebrated on the last Sunday in May)
June 2025
Monday 23 June -
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)
July 2025
Tuesday 29 July -
Olsok or St. Olaf's Day (King Olaf II Haraldsson of Norway is remembered as Rex perpetuus Norvegiae, the Eternal King of Norway. Olsok is a national day of celebration in the Nordic countries of Norway and the Faroe Islands, and also in the provinces of Härjedalen in Sweden and Savonlinna in Finland)
August 2025
Friday 8 August -
Namesday of the Queen in Sweden (On this day in 1901, the Swedish naming calendar, established by the Swedish Academy, was published. Namesday of the Queen, dedicated to this event, gained official status by 1972)
September 2025
October 2025
November 2025
Saturday 1 November -
All Saints Day (Celebrated on Saturday between October 31 and November 6 in Finland, Sweden, El Salvador);
All Saints' Day a holy day of obligation (a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries. And its related observance: Day of the Innocents, The first day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration. - Mexico, Haiti)
Notes:
Public holidays that fall on a weekend usually are not moved to another date, such as the following Monday for example.
