Denmark Public Holidays 2025
Denmark has 10 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Boxing Day on 26 December 2025. One well placed day of leave buys 4 days away from work in 2025, because one holiday sits exactly one working day from a weekend.
2025 has ended. This page is kept as a record of what the calendar was. For dates you can still plan around, see Denmark in 2026 or Denmark in 2027.
Looking back: Denmark observed ten national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. Two fell on a Saturday or Sunday, against three in 2026. The calendar produced three long weekends that year, as many as 2026 gives.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's DayNytår | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Maundy ThursdaySkærtorsdag | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Good FridayLangfredag | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Easter SundayPåskesøndag | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Easter MondayAnden påskedag | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Ascension DayKristi Himmelfartsdag | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| PentecostPinsedag | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Whit MondayAnden Pinsedag | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas DayJuledag | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Boxing DayAnden Juledag | Friday | Public holiday |
- Status
- Set in lawThe calendar is set in standing law rather than announced year by year, so 2025 needs no separate publication.
- Last verified
- The last full review of the dataset behind the Denmark calendar. No correction specific to Denmark has been needed since.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for Denmark.Always confirm official dates with a local authority before booking travel. How these calendars are built. Spotted an error? Tell us and we will check it.
April is the densest month for holidays, which tends to shape travel and shopping patterns. Two of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2025, which is worth checking if you are counting on days off from work. The table below lists every Denmark public holiday for 2025 with its exact date and the weekday it falls on, so you can see the long weekends at a glance. Only nationwide public holidays are included here, which keeps the Denmark calendar clean and comparable.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does Denmark have in 2025?
Denmark has 10 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Boxing Day on 26 December 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in Denmark?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in Denmark in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in Denmark is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for Denmark?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of Denmark are listed separately on the Denmark holiday hub, together with the regions that observe them.
Do the Denmark holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Seven of the 10 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (linked to easter), so their date has to be recalculated for every year. The rest keep the same calendar date and only change weekday. Moving ones this year include Maundy Thursday on 17 April 2025, Good Friday on 18 April 2025 and Easter Sunday on 20 April 2025, plus 4 more.
How far ahead is the Denmark calendar actually fixed?
Through 2027. The holidays are set in law rather than announced year by year, so the dates repeat predictably. What can still change is a law amendment, a one-off holiday declared for a national event, and the exact day of any holiday on the Islamic calendar, which is confirmed by moon sighting. No corrections to the underlying dataset were needed for Denmark.
Which Denmark holidays are regional, and which move?
The table above is the national calendar for 2025. Some holidays keep the same date every year while others are tied to Easter, to a lunar calendar or to a named weekday, and some parts of the country add their own days off. The Denmark holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare Denmark with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for Denmark
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the Denmark public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the Denmark 2025 calendar
Knowing the dates is half the question. The other half is what they add up to: which of them create a long weekend and how many working days the year leaves. The 2025 worldwide overview compares every country on holiday count and weekend overlap, and the country index ranks all 44 of them. The same figures are available as JSON, and the dates as a calendar file.