National Holidays

Shops, post offices and businesses are closed on the following National Holidays:

•  New Year's Day 1 January      
  
• Epiphany 6 January
  
• Easter Monday March/April
  
• Labour Day 1 May
  
• Corpus Christi 10 June
  
• Day of Antifascist Resistance 22 June - marks the outbreak of resistance in 1941
  
• Statehood Day 25 June
  
• Victory Day and National Thanksgiving Day 5 August
  
• Feast of the Assumption 15 August
  
• Independence Day 8 October
  
• All Saints' Day 1 November
  
• Christmas 25 & 26 December

    Watch out for bus, ferry and train schedules which usually change on national holidays. Traffic can also be heavier especially to and from the coast as Zagreb residents start and end a long weekend.

     There is usually a grocery store or two open on the morning of a national holiday, even in the smallest town. Coastal towns depending on tourism are likely to have the most stores and businesses open but in small, out-of-the-way places the silence can be deafening.

Related Pages

Easter in Croatia

Palm Sunday in Croatia

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