No — today is not a public holiday in Austria

How to tell if today is a public holiday in Austria

Austria recognises thirteen public holidays under the Feiertagsruhegesetz 1957 and the Arbeitsruhegesetz. The list is heavily Catholic: Epiphany, Easter Monday, Ascension, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Assumption, All Saints', Immaculate Conception and Saint Stephen's Day join the civic May Day and National Day on 26 October and the universal Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Good Friday is a public holiday only for members of the Protestant Augsburg and Helvetic Confessions, the Old Catholic Church and the Methodist Church by section 7 of the 1957 Act, a unique partial-holiday rule. State Treaty Day on 26 October replaced the older Flag Day in 1965 to commemorate the 1955 declaration of permanent neutrality.

That structure is why a simple "is it a holiday today" answer for Austria is more nuanced than a single yes or no. A date can be a public holiday at the national level, a regional one observed only in certain states or provinces, or a banking holiday that closes financial settlement without closing every employer. The status shown above reflects the nationally recognised public holiday list for Austria; if you are in a specific region, check the full calendar for the local additions that do not appear on the national list.

Working days and the holiday calendar in Austria

Austrian civil law uses Werktag, any day except Sunday and a public holiday, with Saturday included. The Arbeitszeitgesetz sets a 40-hour standard week and the Arbeitsruhegesetz mandates an uninterrupted 36-hour weekly rest period normally including Sunday. The Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) sections 222 and 902 roll procedural deadlines falling on a Saturday, Sunday, public holiday or Good Friday to the next working day, the only legal context in which Good Friday is universally treated as non-working. Settlement of euro transactions follows TARGET2; domestic banking observes the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's calendar mirroring the national list.

Right now there are about 41 full working days between today and Assumption Day, counting Monday to Friday and skipping any other public holidays in between. If you are scheduling a deliverable, a delivery, or a meeting that depends on people being at their desks in Austria, that is the realistic window you have before the next closure.

For cross-border planning, overlay the Austria calendar with the calendars of the other countries your team works with. A week that looks completely open from your side can be a national holiday on theirs, and the clash only shows up when you compare the two side by side. The full holiday page links into a country-by-country comparison so you can spot the weeks where almost nobody is at their desk before you commit to a date.

Holiday dates are compiled from Nager.Date and the national sources listed above. Regional and substitute-day rules vary; for legal deadlines, confirm the observed date with the relevant official calendar for Austria.