Here are the long weekends in 2025 in Hungary!
Unfortunately, that means there will be some rescheduled workdays, as well. Here is the entire package you should be aware of in 2025 if working, schooling, living in Hungary. #restday #holiday #publicholiday #2025hungary #hungarytravel
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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