The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
Country | Minimum number of public holidays |
Maximum number of public holidays |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Albania[1] | 13 | 14 | |
Argentina[2] | 16 | 19 | depending on state and workplace |
Australia[3] | 9 | 13 | depending on state |
Austria[4] | 13 | 18 | depending on state and workplace |
Bangladesh[5] | 22 | 22 | |
Belgium[6] | 10 | 10 | |
Barbados[7] | 11 | 12 | |
Brazil[8][9] | 9 | 12 | including bank holidays |
Bulgaria[10] | 12 | 12 | |
Cambodia[11] | 21 | 21 | |
Canada[12] | 10 | 11 | depending on jurisdiction |
Chile[13] | 43 | 18 | depending on state and workplace |
China[14] | 13 | 13 | |
Colombia[15] | 54 | 18 | |
Croatia[16] | 4 | 14 | |
Cyprus[17] | 14 | 14 | |
Czechia[18] | 53 | 13 | |
Denmark[19] | 14 | 14 | |
Dominican Republic[20] | 12 | 12 | |
Ecuador[21] | 53 | 9 | depending on city |
Egypt[22] | 35 | 22 | |
Estonia[23] | 12 | 12 | |
Fiji[24] | 35 | 10 | |
Finland[25] | 13 | 13 | |
France[26] | 11 | 13 | 13 only in Alsace and Moselle[27] |
Germany[28][29] | 10 | 13 | depending on state |
Ghana[30] | 13 | 13 | |
Greece | 12 | 12 | |
Hong Kong[31] | 17 | 17 | |
Hungary[32] | 11 | 13 | |
Iceland[33] | 16 | 16 | |
India[31] | 35[citation needed] | 42 | |
Indonesia[34] | 28 | 28 | |
Iran[35] | 26 | 26 | |
Ireland[36] | 10 | 10 | |
Israel[37] | 11 | 11 | |
Italy[38] | 12 | 12 | |
Japan[39] | 16 | 16 | |
Kazakhstan[40] | 16 | 16 | |
Kenya[41] | 13 | 13 | |
Kosovo[42] | 11 | 11 | |
Latvia[31] | 13 | 13 | |
Lebanon[43] | 19 | 19 | |
Liechtenstein[44] | 20 | 22 | |
Lithuania[45] | 15 | 15 | |
Luxembourg[46] | 11 | 11 | |
Macau[47] | 20 | 20 | |
Malaysia[48] | 18 | 24 | depending on the state |
Mexico[49] | 8 | 8 | |
Mongolia[50] | 16 | 16 | |
Morocco[51] | 16 | 16 | |
Myanmar[52] | 25 | 26 | |
Nepal[53] | 35 | 35 | |
Netherlands[54] | 7 | 9 | |
New Zealand[55] | 12 | 12 | |
Nigeria[56] | 12 | 12 | |
Norway[57][58] | 12 | 12 | |
Malta[59] | 14 | 14 | |
Pakistan[31] | 15 | 16 | |
Peru[60] | 14 | 14 | |
Philippines[31] | 18 | 18 | |
Poland[61] | 13 | 13 | |
Portugal[62] | 13 | 15 | depending on the region |
Romania[63] | 15 | 15 | |
Russia[64] | 14 | 14 | |
Rwanda[31] | 14 | 14 | |
Saint Lucia[65] | 12 | 12 | |
Serbia[66] | 13 | 13 | |
Singapore[67] | 11 | 11 | |
Slovakia[68] | 14 | 15 | |
Slovenia[69] | 14 | 14 | |
South Africa[70] | 12 | 12 | |
South Korea[71] | 14 | 14 | |
Spain[72] | 12 | 13 | depending on autonomous community |
Sri Lanka[73] | 25 | 25 | |
Sweden[74] | 12 | 12 | |
Switzerland[75] | 9 | 15 | depending on the canton, including holidays falling on a weekend |
Taiwan[76] | 12 | 12 | |
Thailand[31] | 16 | 16 | |
Tanzania[77] | 16 | 16 | |
East Timor[78] | 18 | 18 | |
Trinidad and Tobago[31] | 18 | 18 | |
Turkey[31] | 14 | 14 | |
Ukraine[79] | 11 | 11 | |
United Kingdom[80] | 8 | 10 | depending on nation, but 8 for England and Wales[81] |
United States[82] | 6 | 11 | |
Uruguay[83] | 12 | 12 | |
Venezuela[84] | 14 | 14 | |
Vietnam[85] | 6 | 6 |
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