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Public holidays in Croatia are regulated by the Holidays, Memorial Days and Non-Working Days Act (Template:Lang-hr).

Public Holidays (non-working)
Date	English name	Croatian name
January 1	New Year's Day	Nova godina
January 6	Epiphany	Sveta tri kralja
moveable	Easter Sunday	Uskrs
moveable	Easter Monday	Uskrsni ponedjeljak
May 1	Labour Day	Praznik rada
May 30	National Day	Dan državnosti
moveable	Corpus Christi	Tijelovo
June 22	Anti-Fascist Struggle Day	Dan antifašističke borbe
August 5	Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day	Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti
August 15	Assumption of Mary	Velika Gospa
November 1	All Saints' Day	Dan svih svetih
November 18	Remembrance Day	Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata
December 25	Christmas Day	Božić
December 26	Saint Stephen's Day	Sveti Stjepan

* In 2020 there was a change in holidays: June 25 (was Statehood Day until 2019, became Independence Day in 2020) and October 8 (was Independence Day until 2019, became Day of the Croatian Parliament in 2020) changed names and were demoted from public holidays to memorial days (working). May 30 (was Day of the Croatian Parliament until 2019, became Statehood Day in 2020) was promoted from a memorial day to a public holiday, and November 18 (Remembrance Day) was added as a new public holiday.

Note: Citizens of the Republic of Croatia who celebrate different religious holidays have the right not to work on those dates. Christians who celebrate Christmas, Easter and Easter Monday per the Julian calendar, Muslims on the days of Ramadan Bayram and Kurban Bayram, and Jews on the days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.


Memorial Days (working)
Date	English name	Croatian Name	remark
January 9	Day of Unification of Medimurje with its Parent Body Croatia	Dan sjedinjenja Medimurja s maticom zemljom Hrvatskom
January 15	Day of international recognition of the Republic of Croatia and Day of peacuful reintegration of the Croatian Danube Region	Dan međunarodnoga priznanja Republike Hrvatske i Dan mirne reintegracije hrvatskog Podunavlja
March 15	Day of founding of the People's Protection	Dan osnivanja Narodne zaštite
April 30	Day of the Death of Zrinski and Frankopan	Dan pogibije Zrinskog i Frankopana
May 9	Europe Day and Day of Victory over fascism	Dan Europe i Dan pobjede nad fašizmom
moveable	Day of Remembrance of Croatian Victims in the Fight for Freedom and Independence	Dan spomena na hrvatske žrtve u borbi za slobodu i nezavisnost	Saturday/Sunday nearest to May 15
June 25	Independence Day	Dan neovisnosti	was a Holiday until 2020
August 23	European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism	Europski dan sjećanja na žrtve totalitarnih i autoritarnih režima – nacizma, fašizma i komunizma
August 30	Day of Remembrance of Missing Persons in the War of Independence	Dan sjećanja na nestale osobe u Domovinskom ratu
September 25	Day of the Deciscion about the Unification of Istria, Rijeka, Zadar and the Islands with the Parent Body Croatia	Dan donošenja Odluke o sjedinjenju Istre, Rijeke, Zadra i otoka s maticom zemljom Hrvatskom
October 8	Day of the Croatian Parliament	Dan Hrvatskoga sabora	was a Holiday until 2020

Unofficial holidays

Popular carnival celebrations are held in most cities and towns in the country on Shrove Tuesday (Pokladni utorak), when customarily businesses in public sector and hospitality industry cease work for the day earlier than usual, but the day is not officially designated a public holiday.
Some cities also celebrate de facto public holidays on their patron saints' feast days. For example, in Split, the day of Saint Domnius (Sveti Duje) is celebrated on May 7, while Dubrovnik marks the day of Saint Blaise (Sveti Vlaho) on February 3; business usually cease work earlier than usual on these days.
Even though Christmas Eve (December 24), New Year's Eve (December 31), and Good Friday are not public holidays, businesses customarily close earlier (as early as 12pm).

References

"Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj" (in Croatian). Narodne novine. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.

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