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France Public Holidays 2026

See also: 2026 public holidays in Andorra, Belgium, EMEA, EU, Europe, Eurozone, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, OECD, Spain, Switzerland and worldwide.

This page contains the list of France 2026 public holidays, bank holidays, government holidays, non-working national holidays, and sectorial holidays. The data on this page is also accessible via our free Android and iPhone mobile apps, whose data feed is also updated nightly. The full qppstudio worldwide public holidays database for 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, and beyond, is available immediately, with a professional license.

The list of France public holidays in 2026 is:


Date Weekday Public Holiday Observance
Jan Thursday New Year's Day
Apr Friday Good Friday (57 67 68) regional
Apr Monday Easter Monday
May Friday Labour Day
May Friday Victory Day (Armistice 1945)
May Thursday Ascension Day
May Monday Whit Monday
July Tuesday Quatorze Juillet (National Day)
Aug Saturday Assumption Day
Nov Sunday All Saints' Day
Nov Wednesday Armistice Day
Dec Friday Christmas Day
Dec Saturday Saint Stephen's Day (57 67 68) regional

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Global Holidays Observed in France


Below is the list of global holidays observed as non-working public holidays in France, with the dates of these global holidays for the next 10 years (2024-2034).

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France Regional Abbreviations


Below is a list of the France regional abbreviations, used for regional public holidays, in the table above.