Saturday, 1 January 2028
Confirmed — source checked
This is the first listed date for this year; a separate observance date has not been assigned.
New Year's Day is a statutory Belgian holiday on 1 January, called Nieuwjaarsdag in Dutch and Jour de l’An in French. Private-sector substitute-day rules matter when a listed holiday coincides with Sunday or an ordinary inactive day.
Bank, office and school arrangements require the applicable authority or institution notice. Missing scope data does not mean open.
Friday, 1 January 2027 · Confirmed — source checked
Next listed holiday day on or after today; this can be a closure day rather than the festival date.
Recorded confirmation and independent source review are shown separately. An institution-specific notice does not establish closure for every employer or school.
Official public holiday law or calendar
Confirmed · Scope: public · Checked 2026-09-27
Belgium has ten statutory public holidays. A weekend or normal non-working-day holiday is replaced at workplace level; no single national substitute date is invented here.
Private-sector workers generally may not be employed on this statutory holiday, except where Belgian law permits Sunday work. The employer owes holiday remuneration and, where applicable, compensatory rest or a substitute day under the federal rules.
The National Bank of Belgium publishes its own closure calendar and lists this observance for 2026. Commercial-bank hours and payment-system availability should be checked separately because the NBB list is not a universal retail-bank schedule.
Belgium’s education calendars are community-specific. Families should consult the calendar for the relevant Flemish, French-speaking or German-speaking system and the individual school.
Belgium lists 1 January among its ten statutory public holidays. The date marks the start of the civil year after New Year’s Eve.
It opens the civil year and is one of Belgium’s ten statutory private-sector holidays.
New Year’s Day is generally the quieter continuation of the year-end period, following midnight celebrations and greetings. The public-holiday statute does not prescribe a national ceremony.
The reviewed federal rules establish paid public-holiday treatment for 1 January, not a uniform transport timetable. Check the relevant Belgian operator’s New Year schedule.
It is 1 January.
A substitute rest day must be fixed under the applicable workplace procedure.
Yes. Belgium’s official employment guidance includes it among ten statutory holidays.
View all Belgium public holidays 2028