Finland Public Holidays
Finland has 26 public holidays on the calendar held here, in force from 1 Jan 2026. Last checked against the official source on 7 Aug 2026.
Statutory nationwide public holidays (pyhäpäivät) observed in Finland for calendar year 2026.
What this value means
13 statutory nationwide public holidays. Unlike Germany's Land-by-Land system, Finland's public holidays are uniform across the whole country (there are no regional public holidays; the autonomous Aland Islands observe the same set plus, only for provincial purposes, Aland's Autonomy Day 9 June, which is not a nationwide holiday and is excluded here). NO MONDAYISATION: Finnish law has no lieu-day or roll-forward rule. A holiday falling on a Saturday or Sunday is simply not compensated with another weekday. This bites in 2026 for THREE days: Juhannuspäivä (20 June) and Tapaninpäivä (26 December) both fall on SATURDAY, and Itsenäisyyspäivä (6 December) falls on SUNDAY - no substitute weekday is granted. MOVEABLE FEASTS computed from Easter Sunday 5 April 2026 (Gregorian computus): Good Friday = Easter minus 2 (3 April); Easter Monday = Easter plus 1 (6 April); Ascension/Helatorstai = Easter plus 39 (14 May, always a Thursday); Pentecost/Helluntai = Easter plus 49 (24 May, always a Sunday). TWO 'floating Saturday' feasts, a Finnish peculiarity from the 1955 reform: Juhannuspäivä (Midsummer Day) is the Saturday falling 20-26 June - in 2026 that is Saturday 20 June; Pyhäinpäivä (All Saints' Day) is the Saturday falling 31 October-6 November - in 2026 that is Saturday 31 October. DE FACTO DAYS OFF, DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED because they are NOT statutory public holidays even though most workplaces close: Juhannusaatto (Midsummer Eve, Fri 19 June 2026) and Jouluaatto (Christmas Eve, Thu 24 December 2026) are classified as non-working days for many purposes under the Annual Holidays Act (Vuosilomalaki 162/2005) and are treated as Sundays for pay under collective agreements, but they are not among the statutory pyhäpäivät; Vapunaatto (May Day Eve, 30 April) and Uudenvuodenaatto (New Year's Eve, 31 December) are ordinary working days in law, often a half-day by agreement. Sundays are themselves statutory rest/holy days but are not enumerated here. ACCESS/SOURCING NOTE: Finland has no single consolidated 'public holidays act' - the set is an accretion of the Evangelical-Lutheran church calendar (church feast days) plus two standalone statutes (388/1937 Independence Day, 272/1944 May Day) plus the 1955 calendar reform that moved Midsummer and All Saints to Saturdays. The Act numbers 388/1937 and 272/1944 are well established; the 1955 reform is documented via Suomen asetuskokoelma 1953/535 and church-calendar sources. Finlex pages render via JavaScript and returned only navigation shells or HTTP 404 to automated fetching, so the consolidated Finnish-Wikipedia 'Pyhäpäivä' article is cited as the accessible descriptive anchor rather than as the legal instrument; the individual 2026 dates and weekdays were verified independently by computus and calendar arithmetic. 2027 EXTENSION (2026-07-30): statutory calendar computed for 2027 — fixed dates; Western-Easter feasts for Easter Sunday 28 Mar 2027; Midsummer Day = the Saturday in 20-26 Jun (26 Jun 2027) and All Saints' Day = the Saturday in 31 Oct-6 Nov (6 Nov 2027) per statute. Finland applies no weekend substitution. Midsummer Eve and Christmas Eve are de facto non-working via collective agreements, not statutory holidays, and are not listed. PRIMARY-SOURCED 2026-08-07, replacing the Wikipedia URL: rule = Kirkkolaki 652/2023 1:6 (the eleven feast days verbatim), instances derived per Kirkkojärjestys 657/2023 1:4 (Saturday after 19 June / Saturday after 30 October - the stored 2026-06-20, 2026-10-31, 2027-06-26 and 2027-11-06 are exactly those Saturdays). Both instruments read in full via Finlex open data AKN endpoints; the human pages (finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2023/652 and /657) are a JS-only SPA that serves an empty shell to non-browser clients, which is why the opendata URLs are cited. The earlier citation name's 1953-asetus reference is superseded by the consolidated 657/2023 timing provision.
Get it programmatically
curl https://euroref.dev/v1/fi/public-holidays
# Free.
# History: curl https://euroref.dev/v1/fi/public-holidays/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://euroref.dev/provenance/fi/public-holidaysOther Finland series: Policy Rate (ECB Deposit Facility Rate) · Value Added Tax (Arvonlisävero / ALV) · VAT registration threshold · Statutory Minimum Wage (none - set by collective agreement) · Consumer Price Inflation (Kuluttajahintaindeksi, year-on-year) · Corporate Income Tax (Yhteisövero) · Withholding tax rates · Personal Income Tax (Ansiotulon valtion tulovero) · Statutory social-insurance contributions · ECB main refinancing operations rate (fixed rate) · Late-payment interest (EU Late Payment Directive) · Statutory default interest (viivästyskorko)
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