Public holidays in Turkey 2029

14 public holidays: 2 on a weekend, 3 bridge days

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Public holiday
Bridge day
today
Vacation day
Adjacent day off

Public holidays in Turkey

14 public holidays

1 JanNew Year's Day · Monday
14 FebEid al-Fitr First Day · Wednesday
15 FebEid al-Fitr Second Day · Thursday
16 FebEid al-Fitr Third Day · Friday
23 AprNational Sovereignty and Children's Day · Monday
24 AprEid al-Adha First Day · Tuesday
25 AprEid al-Adha Second Day · Wednesday
26 AprEid al-Adha Third Day · Thursday
27 AprEid al-Adha Fourth Day · Friday
1 MayLabour Day · Tuesday
19 MayCommemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day · Saturday
15 JulDemocracy and National Unity Day · Sunday
30 AugVictory Day · Thursday
29 OctRepublic Day · Monday

Bridge days in Turkey

One day of leave, four days off — outlined in dashed red in the calendar.

30 April 2029Mondaythe day before Labour Day
31 August 2029Fridaythe day after Victory Day
31 December 2029Mondaythe day before New Year's Day

When to take leave in Turkey

What one, two or three days of leave get you:

1 day of leave11 days off21 April – 1 May 2029
2 days of leave12 days off20 April – 1 May 2029
3 days of leave13 days off19 April – 1 May 2029

Act No. 2429 keeps the calendar in two articles. Republic Day opens at 13.00 on the 28th of October and runs through the 29th; three official festivals and three ordinary holidays stand in two lists beside it; and the bayram are written in with their lengths — Ramazan three and a half days from one o'clock on the eve, Kurban four and a half — so the half-day eve, the arife, is itself statutory. 1 May arrived by amendment in 2009 and Democracy and National Unity Day in 2016. A holiday that falls on a weekend stays there: nothing in the statute moves it or pays it back, and its one clause where a holiday and the weekend meet gives rather than takes — when a holiday ends on a Friday evening, the whole of the following Saturday is off, a Saturday being otherwise a half working day.

The bayram dates are calculated rather than waited for, and published many years ahead: Diyanet draws its calendars on whether the new crescent could be seen anywhere on earth, which is why countries that ask instead whether it could be seen from their own sky keep the same festival a day apart. The schools keep one national working calendar, issued afresh each year — the 2026-27 circular went out under the Minister of National Education's signature to all eighty-one provinces — and so the country keeps a single set of term dates.