Saturday, 1 January 2028
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This is the first listed date for this year; a separate observance date has not been assigned.
New Year's Day (újév) is a statutory Hungarian public holiday observed on 1 January. It begins the calendar year and may be followed by a separately decreed bridge rest day. Fixed and Easter-based dates should be distinguished from extra rest days created by the annual work-schedule decree.
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
Hungary’s statutory public holidays are shown with only officially announced transferred rest days. The 2026 regulation adds 2 January, 21 August and 24 December; no unannounced 2027 or 2028 bridge days are predicted.
Public administration normally closes for újév. The annual decree must also be checked for adjacent substituted rest days and compensating Saturdays, while continuous services retain duty staff.
Branches generally close on statutory holidays and decreed non-working weekdays. Electronic banking continues, but ordinary settlement and customer-service deadlines follow the applicable business-day calendar.
Schools do not hold ordinary lessons on the statutory date. Easter and Christmas may sit within longer academic breaks, and a substituted working Saturday can affect institutional schedules.
Újév is the 1 January public holiday listed in section 102 of Hungary’s Labour Code. It begins the civil year and is separate from any adjacent rest day created by an annual ministerial decree.
The holiday affects normal work schedules, but Hungary can create a long weekend by declaring another weekday a rest day and a specified Saturday a working day. That exchanged day is not a second occurrence of New Year's Day.
New Year’s Day follows Hungary’s year-end celebrations and is generally used for rest and seasonal customs. Its legal status comes from the Labour Code, not from the annual exchanged-workday decree.
Long weekends created around újév can increase road, rail and spa demand. Verify whether an adjacent Friday or Monday is a decreed rest day and whether the corresponding Saturday operates as a workday.
It is observed on 1 January.
The Hungarian term is újév.
Yes. An annual decree may exchange an adjacent weekday for a working Saturday; that is separate from the statutory holiday itself.
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