Malta Public holidays
Malta has 28 public holidays on the calendar held here, in force from 1 Jan 2026. Last checked against the official source on 30 Jul 2026.
Maltese national holidays and other public holidays under the National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act, Cap. 252.
| Current value | 28 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| Official source | National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act, Cap. 252 (five National Holidays and nine Other Public Holidays) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-30 |
| Verification | secondary — Corroborated, but the primary instrument was NOT read (usually the publishing host blocks automated access). 252 was confirmed to exist and be in force, its Schedules were NOT read - these names and dates are reconstructed from corroborating sources and should be verified against the statute before being relied on. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
14 days each year - five National Holidays (Freedom Day, Sette Giugno, Victory Day, Independence Day, Republic Day) and nine Other Public Holidays. Malta does NOT substitute a weekend-falling holiday: the calendar date is not moved, so a working-day count is safe. IMPORTANT DISTINCTION: the day is nevertheless not simply lost, because a 2021 reform restored the pre-2005 position of CREDITING a weekend-falling public holiday to the employee's annual leave entitlement. That leave-credit rule is real but its instrument could not be verified, so it is recorded here and not served as data: a Malta holiday flag from this API answers whether the date is a public holiday, NOT what leave entitlement arises. Three days fall on a weekend in each of 2026 and 2027. PROVISIONAL: every Maltese government host returns HTTP 403 to automated reads and legislation.mt serves an un-extractable JavaScript viewer, so although Cap. 252 was confirmed to exist and be in force, its Schedules were NOT read - these names and dates are reconstructed from corroborating sources and should be verified against the statute before being relied on.
Get it programmatically
curl https://euroref.dev/v1/mt/public-holidays
# Free.
# History: curl https://euroref.dev/v1/mt/public-holidays/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://euroref.dev/provenance/mt/public-holidaysOther Malta series: Policy interest rate · Value added tax (VAT) · VAT registration threshold · National minimum wage · Consumer price index (annual inflation, HICP) · Personal income tax brackets · Statutory social-insurance contributions · Corporate income tax · Withholding tax rates · ECB main refinancing operations rate (fixed rate) · Late-payment interest (EU Late Payment Directive) · Statutory legal interest (Civil Code art. 1139)
The same figure elsewhere: Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Romania · all 34