Public_holidays_in_Serbia
The public holidays in Serbia are defined by the Law of national and other holidays in the Republic of Serbia.
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| Public Holidays | ||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January1 | New Year's Day | Нова Година | Nova Godina | |
| 2 January1 | ||||
| 7 January | Christmas Day | Божић | Božić | Serbian Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar |
| 15 February 1 | Statehood Day | Дан државности (Сретење) | Dan državnosti (Sretenje) | Anniversary of the First Serbian Uprising and Serbian Revolution in 1804 and the first Constitution in 1835. |
| 16 February 1 | ||||
| moveable Easter – 2 days | Great Friday | Велики петак | Veliki petak | Serbian Orthodox Church calculates Easter using Orthodox Computus |
| moveable Easter + 1 day | Easter Monday | Васкрсни понедељак (Ускрсни понедељак) | Vaskrsni ponedeljak (Uskrsni ponedeljak) | |
| 1 May 1 | Labour Day | Празник рада | Praznik rada | |
| 2 May 1 | ||||
| 11 November 1 | Armistice Day | Дан примирја | Dan primirja | |
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1 If one of the non-religious holidays falls on a Sunday, then the next working day is a non-working day.
Additionally, the employees of Christian, Muslim and Jewish religion are allowed not to work on some of their religious holidays.
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| Religious holidays | ||||
| Serbian Orthodox Christians | ||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| varies | Krsna slava | Крсна слава | Krsna slava | Family patron saint |
| Western Christians & Revised Julian calendar Eastern Orthodox Christians | ||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks |
| December 25 | Christmas Day | Божић | Božić | |
| Western Christians | ||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks |
| varies | Good Friday | Велики петак | Veliki petak | |
| varies | Easter Monday | Ускрсни понедељак | Uskrsni ponedeljak | |
| Muslims | ||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks |
| 1 Shawwal | Eid al-Fitr | Рамазански Бајрам | Ramazanski Bajram | |
| 10 Dhu al-Hijjah | Eid al-Adha | Курбански Бајрам | Kurbanski Bajram | |
| Jews | ||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks |
| 10 Tishrei | Yom Kippur | Јом Кипур | Jom Kipur | |
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Some holidays are defined by the law as working holidays, hence they are not bank holidays, but they are observed by the state and people.
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| Working holidays | |||||
| Date | Name | Serbian name (Cyrillic) |
Serbian name (Latin) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 January | Saint Sava Day | Савиндан | Savindan | Serbian schools holiday; Saint Sava is patron saint of the Serbian schools. According to Julian calendar (in the Gregorian calendar it's observed on 14 January). | |
| 22 April | Holocaust, Genocide and other Fascist Crimes Victims of the World War II Remembrance Day | Дан сећања на жртве холокауста, геноцида и других жртава фашизма у Другом светском рату | Dan sećanja na žrtve holokausta, genocida i drugih žrtava fašizma u Drugom svetskom ratu | Remembrance on the prisoner breakout from Jasenovac concentration camp. | |
| 9 May | Victory Day | Дан победе | Dan pobede | Remembrance on the end of World War II in Europe. | |
| 28 June | Vidovdan (Saint Vitus Day) | Видовдан | Vidovdan | Remembrance on the Battle of Kosovo. According to Julian calendar (in the Gregorian calendar it's observed on 15 June). | |
| 15 September | Day of Serb Unity, Freedom and the National Flag | Дан српског јединства, слободе и националне заставе | Dan srpskog jedinstva, slobode i nacionalne zastave | Remembrance on the breakthrough of the Macedonian Front in World War I. | |
| 21 October | World War II Serbian Victims Remembrance Day | Дан сећања на српске жртве у Другом светском рату | Dan sećanja na srpske žrtve u Drugom svetskom ratu | Remembrance on the Kragujevac massacre. | |
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- Закон о државним и другим празницима у Републици Србији [Law of the national and other holidays in the Republic of Serbia]. Issues 43/2001, 101/2007, 92/2011 (in Serbian). Службени гласник РС. 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.