Iceland public holidays 2025

Iceland 2025

The calendar above is already set to Iceland holidays for 2025, ready to download as a PDF. Below is the full list, the weekday each holiday falls on, and the long weekends they create.

How holidays work in Iceland

All 16 public holidays

DateDayHoliday
January 1WednesdayNew Year's Day
April 17ThursdayMaundy Thursday
April 18FridayGood Friday
April 20SundayEaster Sunday
April 21MondayEaster Monday
April 24ThursdayFirst Day of Summer
May 1ThursdayMay Day
May 29ThursdayAscension Day
June 8SundayPentecost
June 9MondayWhit Monday
June 17TuesdayIcelandic National Day
August 4MondayCommerce Day
December 24WednesdayChristmas Eve
December 25ThursdayChristmas Day
December 26FridaySt. Stephen's Day
December 31WednesdayNew Year's Eve

These are the dates as officially observed. Where a country moves a day off because the holiday itself falls at a weekend, the moved date is the one shown, which is why a date here can differ from the traditional one.

Long weekends in 2025

Stretches of three or more days off in a row, counting weekends and nationwide public holidays together. Holidays that apply only to some regions are left out, since they would not give most people the day off.

DatesDaysBecause of
April 17 – April 215Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday
June 7 – June 93Pentecost, Whit Monday
August 2 – August 43Commerce Day
December 24 – December 285Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day

Holidays that fall at a weekend

2 holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2025, and Iceland does not shift them to a weekday:

Print it

The generator at the top of this page marks every holiday listed here. The calendar language is a separate setting, so you can print Iceland holidays with month names in any of 58 languages — or switch the holidays off and keep a plain calendar.

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