Public holidays in Italy 2026

Italy has 13 nationwide public holidays in 2026. That figure covers the whole country only: regions, provinces and individual towns add their own patron-saint and local days on top, so plenty of residents get more than 13 days off. Anyone comparing Italy’s calendar to another country should treat 13 as the national floor, not the final answer.

The shape of the year

The year opens with New Year’s Day on Thursday 1 January and closes with St. Stephen’s Day on Saturday 26 December. Between those two, the calendar has one notably quiet stretch: 89 days pass between Epiphany and Easter Sunday without a single nationwide holiday, the longest gap of the year. Outside that stretch, the holidays are spread fairly evenly, so no other season runs dry for long.

Weekday luck in 2026

Where a holiday lands in the week decides whether it actually buys anyone time off, and 2026 is a mixed year for that. Only 1 of the 13 falls on a Monday, and 2 land on Fridays, so three-day weekends are scarce. Six of the thirteen fall on a weekend: Easter Sunday and All Saints Day both land on a Sunday, St. Francis of Assisi’s Day also falls on a Sunday, while Liberation Day, Assumption Day and St. Stephen’s Day all fall on a Saturday.

A holiday that lands on a weekend is normally a lost day off, since it would have been non-working anyway. Some countries move the holiday to the nearest working day when this happens; whether that applies here varies by rule and by employer, so this page simply reports where each date falls rather than assuming a substitute day is granted.

Dates are drawn from the Nager.Date open public holiday dataset as of this page’s most recent review. Governments can and do adjust holiday dates after publication, so treat the table below as a strong reference rather than a final legal source.