:Public holidays in Estonia

All official holidays in Estonia are established by acts of Parliament.

Public holidays

The following are holidays that mean days off:

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1 January

| New Year's Day

| uusaasta

24 February

| Independence Day

| iseseisvuspäev

| National Day – celebrates the declaration of independence in 1918.

Moveable Friday

| Good Friday

| suur reede

Moveable Sunday

| Easter Sunday

| ülestõusmispühade 1. püha

| Commonly known as lihavõtted or munadepühad.

1 May

| Spring Day

| kevadpüha

Moveable Sunday

| Whit Sunday

| nelipühade 1. püha

23 June

| Victory Day

| Võidupüha

| Celebrates the victory in the Battle of Võnnu during the Estonian War of Independence.

24 June

| Saint John's Day

| Jaanipäev

| Jaaniõhtu is celebrated in the night before Midsummer Day.

20 August

| Independence Restoration Day

| taasiseseisvumispäev

| Celebrates Estonia's restoration of independence in 1991.

24 December

| Christmas Eve

| jõululaupäev

25 December

| Christmas Day

| esimene jõulupüha

26 December

| Second Day of Christmas

| teine jõulupüha

National holidays

The following holidays do not give a day off:

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6 January

| Epiphany

| kolmekuningapäev

2 February

| Anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty

| Tartu rahulepingu aastapäev

| Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence

14 March

| Native Language Day

| emakeelepäev

| Kristjan Jaak Peterson's birthday.

Moveable Sunday

| Mother's Day

| emadepäev

| Held on the second Sunday of May.

4 June

| National Flag Day

| Eesti lipu päev

| Date when the Flag of Estonia was first consecrated in 1884.

14 June

| Day of Mourning and Commemoration

| leinapäev

| Commemorating the victims of Soviet deportations in 1941 and 1949.

23 August

| European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism

| kommunismi ja natsismi ohvrite mälestuspäev

| Day when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939.

Moveable Sunday

| Grandparents Day

| vanavanemate päev

| Held on the second Sunday of September.

22 September

| Resistance Fighting Day

| vastupanuvõitluse päev

| Otto Tief's attempt to restore Estonian independence in 1944

1 October

|Local government Day

|omavalitsuspäev

2 November

| All Souls' Day

| hingedepäev

Moveable Sunday

| Father's Day

| isadepäev

| Held on the second Sunday of November.

16 November

| Day of Declaration of Sovereignty

| taassünni päev

| Estonian Declaration of Sovereignty, which was issued in 1988.

References

[https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/13276841?leiaKehtiv Public and National Holidays Act] {{in lang|et}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110106162819/http://www.vm.ee/en/node/5753 Estonian Holidays in 2014]
List of holidays celebrated in the European Union in 2006 was used for translation:
[http://europa.eu/abc/travel/pdf/holiday_2006_et.pdf in Estonian]
[http://europa.eu/abc/travel/pdf/holiday_2006_en.pdf in English]

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