Public Holidays and Days of National Importance Act

The national day and a day of rest is

24 February, Independence Day and anniversary of the Republic of Estonia.

Public holidays and days of rest are

1) 1 January – New Year’s Day;

2) – Good Friday;

3) – Easter Sunday;

4) 1 May – May Day;

5) – Pentecost;

6) 23 June – Victory Day;

7) 24 June – Midsummer Day;

8) 20 August – Day of Restoration of Independence;

8¹) 24 December – Christmas Eve;

9) 25 December – Christmas Day;

10) 26 December – Boxing Day.

The days of national importance are

1) 6 January – Epiphany;

2) 2 February – Anniversary of Tartu Peace Treaty;

2¹) 14 March – Mother Tongue Day;

3) second Sunday in May – Mothers’ Day;

3¹) 4 June – Flag Day;

4) 14 June – Day of Mourning;

4¹) 23 August – Day of Remembrance for Victims of Communism and Nazism;

4²) the second Sunday in September – Grandparents’ Day;

4³) 22 September – Resistance Day;

[RT I 2007, 22, 118 - entry into force 23.03.2007, point number changed (RT I, 2010, 7, 27)]

4⁴) 1 October – Local Self-Government Day;

4⁵) the third Saturday in October – Kindred Peoples’ Day;

[RT I, 09.03.2011, 2 - entry into force 19.03.2011, point number changed (RT I, 12.06.2018, 2)]

5) 2 November – All Souls’ Day;

6) the second Sunday in November – Fathers’ Day;

7) 16 November – Day of Declaration of Sovereignty.

(1) The Government of the Republic of Estonia may declare a period of national mourning.

(2) No public events incongruous with mourning may be held on 14 June, the Day of Mourning.

(1) The public holidays and days of national importance specified in this Act are determined on the basis of the Gregorian calendar.

(2) The provisions in other legislative acts regarding public holidays and days of national importance apply to the national day.

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This Act enters into force on 23 February 1998.