Public holidays 2027 in the Netherlands

Saturday, 25 December 2027 and Sunday, 26 December 2027: both Christmas days fall at the weekend in 2027. If you work Monday to Friday, you lose two days off compared with a year when Christmas falls midweek, such as 2028, when Christmas Day is a Monday. No legal rule makes up for it. Whether you get a premium for working on a holiday is in your agreement, also when the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

New Year's Day 1 January 2027 is a Friday, giving a long weekend without leave. The school Christmas break runs 25 December 2027 – 9 January 2028 in every region.

Easter is early in 2027: Easter Sunday is 28 March 2027, Easter Monday Monday, 29 March 2027. The date follows the rule of the Council of Nicaea, the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring, computed with Gauss's Easter formula. Whitsun comes seven weeks later: 16 May 2027 and Monday, 17 May 2027. Ascension falls in between, forty days after Easter, on Thursday, 6 May 2027.

Good Friday 26 March 2027 is on the official list, but the government says you will probably work. If your agreement gives it off, Easter becomes a four-day weekend. More on Easter 2027 and Good Friday 2027.

Three holidays sit close together in May 2027: King's Day on Tuesday, 27 April 2027, Liberation Day on Wednesday, 5 May 2027 and Ascension Day on Thursday, 6 May 2027. King's Day is a Tuesday, so Monday 26 April 2027 is a true bridge day. After Ascension, Friday 7 May 2027 is the second. If you also have 5 May off, leave from 28 April 2027 to 7 May 2027 builds one long block.

The school May break runs 24 April – 2 May 2027 in all three regions, so King's Day falls inside it and the other two do not. See King's Day 2027, Liberation Day 2027 and Ascension 2027.

A Monday-to-Friday year has 261 weekdays in 2027. Take off the 5 holidays most employers give and 256 working days remain. With Good Friday and Liberation Day off as well, it is 254. Payroll uses this figure for a daily rate and freelancers to estimate a year's turnover.

The working days page counts any month or period.

For school holidays the Netherlands is split into three regions: North, Central and South. Christmas and May breaks fall at the same time everywhere; autumn, spring and summer breaks are staggered. The 2027 summer break starts on 10 July 2027 in the North, 17 July 2027 in Central and 24 July 2027 in the South.

Find the region of your municipality with the region finder; all dates are on school holidays 2026-2027.

The law does not say whether you are off, but it does govern deadlines. A statutory deadline that ends on a Saturday, a Sunday or a generally recognised holiday runs on to the next working day, under the General Time Limits Act. A deadline ending on Saturday, 25 December 2027 therefore moves to Monday 27 December 2027 in 2027. The deadline calculator does this for any date.

The dates come from the Dutch central government, which publishes its texts under the Creative Commons zero declaration (CC0 1.0): free to reuse, even without credit. We still name the source on every page. Easter is computed here with Gauss's formula, checked against Meeus's method for the years 1600 to 2600; the government list for 2026 and 2027 matches exactly. Details on the method page.