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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Faroe Islands, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
The next public holiday in Faroe Islands is
Christmas Day
In 124 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Atlantic/Faroe
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Faroe Islands public holidays in 2026
12 national closures in 2026. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Verified |
| 2 April 2026 | Maundy Thursday expected | Verified |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 5 April 2026 | Easter Sunday expected | Verified |
| 6 April 2026 | Easter Monday expected | Verified |
| 14 May 2026 | Ascension Day expected | Verified |
| 24 May 2026 | Pentecost Sunday expected | Verified |
| 25 May 2026 | Whit Monday expected | Verified |
| 28 July 2026 | Ólavsøkuaftan expected | Corroborated |
| 29 July 2026 | Ólavsøka | Verified |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
| 26 December 2026 | Second Day expected | Verified |
The shape of Faroe Islands’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
12 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Faroe Islands, 2026
6 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. National closures only, computed on a Monday–Friday week — an assumption, not something the corpus records for this jurisdiction.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 2 Apr – 6 Apr | 5 days | Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday | no leave needed |
| 14 May – 17 May | 4 days | Ascension Day | take Fri 15 May |
| 23 May – 25 May | 3 days | Pentecost Sunday, Whit Monday | no leave needed |
| 25 Jul – 29 Jul | 5 days | Ólavsøkuaftan, Ólavsøka | take Mon 27 Jul |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day, Second Day | no leave needed |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Faroe Islands, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory closures | 11 | 11 verified | — | |
| Religious observances | 9 | 9 verified | — | |
| Half-days and partial closures | 1 | 1 corroborated | 2026-07-17 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 2 | 2 verified | — | |
| Elections | 9 | — | — |
Not held for Faroe Islands: Statutory weekly rest, Optional and restricted days, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, School terms and breaks, Subdivision calendars, Exchange closures, Tax deadlines, School terms and breaks. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
2 named documents, issued by 2 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Landsstýrið (Faroese Government) python-holidays maintainers
How Faroe Islands keeps time
| Observances | 12 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 11 verified · 1 corroborated · 0 compiled, from 1 named source |
| Languages | Danish, English, fo |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-07-17 |
The Faroe Islands dossier
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11 of 12 dated closures were read from the instrument itself; the rest come from independent secondary sources or published compilations. Across 1 named source, and every row says which.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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