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9 public holidays
Netherlands has 9 public holiday dates recorded for 2026. 9 of the listed dates are treated as non-working days and reduce the working-day count; 3 of those fall at a weekend. For the effect on working days see Netherlands business days 2026.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Deducted from working days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | Thursday | Nieuwjaarsdag | Yes |
| 2026-04-05 | Sunday | Eerste Paasdag | Yes |
| 2026-04-06 | Monday | Tweede Paasdag | Yes |
| 2026-04-27 | Monday | Koningsdag | Yes |
| 2026-05-14 | Thursday | Hemelvaartsdag | Yes |
| 2026-05-24 | Sunday | Eerste Pinksterdag | Yes |
| 2026-05-25 | Monday | Tweede Pinksterdag | Yes |
| 2026-12-25 | Friday | Eerste Kerstdag | Yes |
| 2026-12-26 | Saturday | Tweede Kerstdag | Yes |
The legal basis for Dutch holidays is Article 11 of the Dignity of Labour Act (Arbeidswet, 1938), which still does the job: New Year, Easter Monday, King's Day (27 April), Ascension, Whit Monday, Labour Day, Christmas and Second Christmas Day. Five of these are movable religious dates even though the country is now majority non-churchgoing — Ascension and Whit Monday survive purely as cultural commons. King's Day moved from 30 April (Queen's Day) to 27 April in 2014 for Willem-Alexander's birthday, and the whole country turns orange for outdoor flea markets that day.
Beursvrijdag (stock-exchange Friday) is the classic near-holiday: Good Friday has no legal protection, but banks, the Amsterdam exchange and many offices traditionally close or run half-days, so the Easter weekend effectively stretches to four days for a large slice of the workforce. Liberation Day (5 May) is the one date with a conditional structure — every year it is commemorated, but it is a general paid day off only in the five-yearly anniversary cycles (2020, 2025, 2030…). Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten run their own holiday sets entirely, so "the Dutch calendar" in Caribbean trade means a different list again.
Deducted days are national public holidays (the days the dataset records as applying to the whole country). Holidays observed only in part of the country, or only in particular sectors, are listed with “Regional or sector-specific only” and are not deducted from the business-day counts.