🇧🇬Bulgaria 2026 Holidays
Complete holiday list for Bulgaria in 2026, including regional holidays such as public holidays, bank holidays, and important festivals.
Holidays
Data sources and review
Calendar data: date-holidays + ClockZone
This selection has not been checked date by date against an official annual calendar. Dates are calculated from the source rules.
Country calendar. Regional dates may differ.
17 entries covering 17 calendar dates, not a count of days off.
Bulgaria Public Holidays at a Glance
This page covers the patterns behind Bulgaria's public holidays across years. If you just want the full list of dates for a single year, pick that year from the navigation below.
2025–2027: Three Years Compared
The number of public holidays — and how much time off they really add up to — changes from year to year. The table below is calculated straight from each year's holiday dates.
These country-level estimates assume a Saturday–Sunday weekend. Regional schedules, substitute days and working-day exceptions may differ.
| Year | Holidays | Long weekends | Bridge days | On a weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 2027 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
Holidays that move every year
3 of Bulgaria's public holidays fall on a different date every year, set by a lunar calendar, a religious calendar, or a rule like “the third Monday in January”. These are the ones to watch when you plan ahead:
- Разпети петък: 2025-04-18, 2025 · 2026-04-10, 2026 · 2027-04-30, 2027
- Великден: 2025-04-20, 2025 · 2026-04-12, 2026 · 2027-05-02, 2027
- Велики понеделник: 2025-04-21, 2025 · 2026-04-13, 2026 · 2027-05-03, 2027
Another 9 holidays land on the same date every year and aren't affected by these rules.