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Public holidays in Ukraine

The following are the eleven public holidays in Ukraine.

Holidays established by law

During martial law a public holiday is not a non-working day. Before the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church switched to the Revised Julian calendar in September 2023 all Christian holidays were observed according to the Julian calendar, since then Christmas is officially celebrated on 25 December. From 2017 to 2022 Christmas was celebrated in Ukraine on 2 different days, 7 January (the date of the holiday according to the Julian calendar) and 25 December (the date of the holiday according to the Gregorian and Revised Julian calendars). From 2023 Christmas is only officially celebrated in Ukraine on 25 December.

When a public holiday falls on a weekend (e.g. Saturday or Sunday), the following working day (e.g. Monday) turns into an official day off too.

If only one or only two working days are between a public holiday and another day off then the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine usually releases a recommendation to avoid this gap by moving these working days onto a certain Saturday (that is to have uninterrupted vacations, but to compensate this by work on another day which would be a day off). Usually such recommendations only concern those employees whose weekly days off are Saturday and Sunday.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022 led to a reappraisal of the popularity of the public holidays in Ukraine. A March 2024 study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that the popularity of Independence Day of Ukraine and Defenders Day had both almost more than doubled (from 37% to 64% and from 29% to 58%) while the popularity of International Women's Day had fallen from being labelled "most beloved" by 49% of respondents in 2017 to 21% in March 2024.

Holidays celebrated by the uniformed organizations

  • 26 March – National Guard Day
  • 30 April – Border Guards Day
  • 6 May – Day of the Mechanized Infantry
  • 18 May – Reservists' Day
  • 23 May – Marine Corps Birthday, Heroes of Ukraine Day
  • 27 May – Special Operations Forces Day
  • 4 July – Police Day
  • First Sunday in July – Navy Day; From 1997 till 2011 this day was celebrated on 1 August
  • First Sunday in August – Air Defence Forces Day
  • 8 August – Signal Corps Day
  • 7 September – Military Intelligence Forces Day
  • 9 September – Armoured Forces Day
  • 12 September - Electronic Warfare Troops Day
  • 14 September – Mobilized Servicemen Day
  • First Sunday in October – Territorial Defence Forces Day
  • 29 October – Finance Officers Day
  • 3 November – Corps of Engineers Day
  • 21 November – Air Assault Forces Day
  • 4 December – Rocket Forces and Artillery Day
  • 6 December – Armed Forces Day; festive fireworks and salutes take place in various cities in Ukraine; The holiday was established in 1993 by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament).
  • 12 December – Ground Forces Day
  • 18 December - Military Counterintelligence Day
  • 23 December – Operational Servicemen Day

Other national holidays

Fixed date

Movable

See also

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