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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for France, 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
Includes subnational coverage · 4 subdivisions covered.
The next public holiday in France is
All Saints' Day
In 70 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Europe/Paris
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France public holidays in 2026
11 national closures in 2026, of 18 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Verified |
| 6 April 2026 | Easter Monday expected | Verified |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day expected | Verified |
| 8 May 2026 | Victory expected | Verified |
| 14 May 2026 | Ascension Day expected | Verified |
| 25 May 2026 | Whit Monday expected | Verified |
| 14 July 2026 | Bastille Day expected | Verified |
| 15 August 2026 | Assumption expected | Verified |
| 1 November 2026 | All Saints' Day expected | Verified |
| 11 November 2026 | Armistice Day expected | Verified |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
The shape of France’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
11 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in France, 2026
8 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on a Monday–Friday week. The corpus holds Sunday as this jurisdiction’s statutory weekly rest — verified — but a labour code names the day it guarantees, not the days custom adds, so it is cited above rather than computed from.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 4 Apr – 6 Apr | 3 days | Easter Monday | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 8 May – 10 May | 3 days | Victory | no leave needed |
| 14 May – 17 May | 4 days | Ascension Day | take Fri 15 May |
| 23 May – 25 May | 3 days | Whit Monday | no leave needed |
| 11 Jul – 14 Jul | 4 days | Bastille Day | take Mon 13 Jul |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day | no leave needed |
Next in each subdivision
2 subdivisions of France keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the Calendar API.
| Subdivision | Next | Observance |
|---|---|---|
| Alsace | 26 December 2026 | St. Stephen's Day |
| Corse | 2 April 2027 | Corsican National Day |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for France, 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 weekly rest | 1 | verified | — | 1 named source, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 18 | 11 verified · 7 compiled | 2026-08-02 | |
| Religious observances | 9 | 6 verified · 3 compiled | 2026-08-02 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 9 | 4 verified · 5 compiled | 2026-08-02 | |
| School terms and breaks | 165 | — | — | 15 calendars, 3 parallel: Zone A; Zone B; Zone C |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 4 | — | — | |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XPAR (29) |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 6 | — | — | |
| Elections | 25 | — | — |
Not held for France: Optional and restricted days, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
4 named documents, issued by 4 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Direction de l'information légale et administrative (DILA), République Française République Française — Légifrance (DILA) internal python-holidays maintainers
How France keeps time
| Observances | 18 across the national calendar and 2 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 11 verified · 0 corroborated · 7 compiled, from 5 named sources |
| Languages | English, French |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XPAR |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-02 |
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11 of 18 dated closures were read from the instrument itself; the rest come from independent secondary sources or published compilations. Across 5 named sources, 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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We do not promise a calendar that never changes. Dates move: authorities declare holidays at short notice and publish corrections of their own. Every record here shows what stands behind it, and when a date changes we correct it, publish it, and tell the people it affects.