How we count
Fixed-date holidays come from each country's law; movable ones are counted from Easter Sunday (Orthodox Easter for Greece and Romania), or by rules such as “the last Monday of May”.
Where the law moves a holiday that falls on a weekend to a weekday (United Kingdom, United States, Japan), the moved day off is shown as well.
Long weekends are runs of three or more days off. A bridge is a working day you take as leave to join a holiday with the weekend; we show options with up to two days of leave that give at least two days off for each day taken.
Questions
- Are all holidays days off?
- Not always. Some countries have official holidays that are working days — they are marked in the list. Regional holidays apply only where the region has them.
- What is a bridge day?
- A working day between a holiday and the weekend. Taking it as leave turns, for example, a Thursday holiday into four days off.
- Is the list official?
- It is worked out from the law, linked below. Governments sometimes add one-off days off — check the official source for your employer's rules.
Sources: www.gazzettaufficiale.it · 10/21/2026