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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Iceland, 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 Iceland is
Christmas Day
In 124 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Atlantic/Reykjavik
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Iceland public holidays in 2026
15 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 |
| 23 April 2026 | First Day expected | Verified |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day expected | Verified |
| 14 May 2026 | Ascension Day expected | Verified |
| 24 May 2026 | Pentecost Sunday expected | Verified |
| 25 May 2026 | Whit Monday expected | Verified |
| 17 June 2026 | National expected | Verified |
| 3 August 2026 | Commerce Holiday expected | Verified |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
| 26 December 2026 | Second Day expected | Verified |
| 31 December 2026 | New Year's Eve expected | Verified |
The shape of Iceland’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
15 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Iceland, 2026
8 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 |
| 23 Apr – 26 Apr | 4 days | First Day | take Fri 24 Apr |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | 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 |
| 1 Aug – 3 Aug | 3 days | Commerce Holiday | no leave needed |
| 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 Iceland, 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 | 14 | 14 verified | — | |
| Religious observances | 9 | 9 verified | — | |
| Half-days and partial closures | 1 | 1 verified | — | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 2 | 2 verified | — | |
| School terms and breaks | 6 | — | — | 2 calendars |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XICE (48) |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 6 | — | — | |
| Elections | 19 | — | — |
Not held for Iceland: Statutory weekly rest, Optional and restricted days, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, Subdivision calendars. 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:
Stjórnarráð Íslands (Government of Iceland) python-holidays maintainers
How Iceland keeps time
| Observances | 15 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 15 verified · 0 corroborated · 0 compiled, from 1 named source |
| Languages | English, Icelandic |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XICE |
| Last reviewed | — |
The Iceland dossier
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All 15 dated closures here were read from the instrument itself — the gazette, statute or order — across 1 named source.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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