Here are the long weekends in 2025 in Hungary!
In 2025, there will be five long weekends in Hungary, but there will be no 6-day-long weekend like in 2024. The list of the long weekends was published by national economy minister Márton Nagy.
According to 24.hu, there will be one more four-day-long weekend in 2025 compared to 2024, while the number of 3-day-long weekends will be significantly lower. At Christmas, there will be a 5-day-long weekend. Employees in Hungary will have to work on three Saturdays in 2025.
Jobbik, a Hungarian opposition party, regularly submits a bill to turn 24 December a holiday. They say Hungary is a Christian country, and the Orbán cabinet is fiercely Christian, so they should not allow work on Christmas Eve. However, the Hungarian government never supported that initiative: the Fidesz majority discarded it in the Parliament’s Business Development Committee last December. Meanwhile, in Poland, the parliament accepted it, and President Andrzej Duda signed a bill that turned 24 December into a holiday starting from 2025. Interestingly, this year, 24 December will be a holiday despite the Orbán cabinet’s resistance. Let us show you how below.
National Holidays
On 15 March, Hungary celebrates the outbreak of the 1848 civic revolution, which later became a freedom fight against the Austrian Habsburg and the Russian Tsar. In 2025, 15 March will fall on a Saturday, so it will not be a public holiday. 23 October marks the outbreak of the 1956 anti-Communist and anti-Soviet revolution, and we will celebrate it this year on a Thursday. Therefore, it will be a public holiday. 20 August is the main national holiday of Hungary, marking the foundation of the Christian Hungarian Medieval state. This year, it will be on a Wednesday.
Rest days for Easter, Pentecost, All Saints’ Day, Christmas, New Year’s Eve
In 2025, Good Friday will be on 18 April, so there will be a four-day-long weekend between 18 and 21 April. 9 June will be Pentecost, so there will be a three-day-long weekend between 7 and 9 June. 1 November (All Saints’ Day) will be a Saturday. At Christmas, we will have a truly long weekend between 24 and 28 December. Finally, New Year’s Eve will be on a Wednesday, while New Year’s Day will be on a Thursday.
There will be one more four-day-long weekend between 1 and 4 May celebrating Labour Day on 1 May, which will fall on a Thursday.
Rescheduled workdays in 2025
There will be three rescheduled workdays in Hungary in 2025. We will have to work on 17 May (instead of 2 May, which will be a rest day), 18 October (24 October) and 13 December (24 December).
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