Netherlands public holidays

What this value means

STATUTORY SCOPE CAVEAT (verified by loading BWBR0002448 art. 3 on 2026-07-20): art. 3(1) enumerates only 'de Nieuwjaarsdag, de Christelijke tweede Paas- en Pinksterdag, de beide Kerstdagen, de Hemelvaartsdag, de dag waarop de verjaardag van de Koning wordt gevierd en de vijfde mei', with Goede Vrijdag equated by art. 3(2). EERSTE PAASDAG (5 April) AND EERSTE PINKSTERDAG (24 May) ARE THEREFORE NOT NAMED IN THE STATUTE — only the SECOND days are. They are retained in this list because every mainstream Dutch holiday calendar carries them and both fall on a Sunday by definition, but a consumer computing statutory time limits under the Algemene termijnenwet must exclude those two entries. All other nine dates rest squarely on art. 3. NO SUBSTITUTION / MONDAYISATION EXISTS IN DUTCH LAW. Holidays falling on a weekend are simply not moved and generate no replacement day off — this is the single most common error in third-party Dutch holiday data. Applied to 2026: Tweede Kerstdag (26 December 2026) falls on a SATURDAY and is NOT substituted. Koningsdag 27 April 2026 falls on a Monday, so the statutory shift-to-26-April rule (which triggers only when 27 April is a Sunday) does NOT apply this year. Christmas Day 2026 is a Friday; New Year's Day is a Thursday; Ascension Day is a Thursday; Bevrijdingsdag is a Tuesday; Goede Vrijdag is a Friday. CRITICAL CAVEAT ON PAID LEAVE: 'algemeen erkende feestdag' is a term of art in the Algemene termijnenwet about the computation of LEGAL TIME LIMITS (deadlines falling on such a day roll to the next working day). Dutch law does NOT give employees a general statutory right to paid leave on these days — entitlement is governed by the individual employment contract or the applicable CAO (collective agreement). Bevrijdingsdag (5 May) is the sharpest case: it is a nationally recognised holiday every year, but most CAOs grant it as a paid day off only in lustrum years (every 5 years); 2026 is not a lustrum year, so most Dutch employees work on 5 May 2026 — it is nonetheless listed because art. 3 names it. Good Friday (3 April) is likewise recognised for time-limit purposes but is a working day under most CAOs. DELIBERATE EXCLUSIONS: Sinterklaas (5 December), Dodenherdenking (4 May), Carnaval (mainly Noord-Brabant and Limburg, 15-17 February 2026), and Prinsjesdag (third Tuesday of September) are NOT algemeen erkende feestdagen and are excluded. Also excluded are holidays of the Caribbean Netherlands special municipalities (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), which have their own local holiday calendars (e.g. Dia di Rincon, Statia Day, Saba Day) — this list covers the European Netherlands only. No date on this list is provisional; all are fixed by rule or by the ecclesiastical computus (Easter Sunday 2026 = 5 April; Ascension = Easter + 39 days; Pentecost = Easter + 49 days). 2027 EXTENSION (2026-07-29): the 2027 dates are the permanent statutory holiday calendar carried forward — fixed-date holidays keep their date and Easter-linked holidays are computed for Easter Sunday 28 March 2027. This country applies no automatic weekend substitution, so holidays falling on a weekend are not moved. One-off holidays proclaimed for 2027 (if any) are not included; re-verify against the official source near-year.

Get it programmatically

curl https://euroref.dev/v1/nl/public-holidays
# Free.
# History:    curl https://euroref.dev/v1/nl/public-holidays/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://euroref.dev/provenance/nl/public-holidays

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