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Holidays in Croatia

Date	English name	Local name	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	Nova Godina
January 6	Epiphany	Bogojavljenje
Easter and the day after	Easter and Easter Monday	Uskrs i uskrsni ponedjeljak	variable date
May 1	Labor Day	Međunarodni praznik rada
60 days post Easter	Corpus Christi	Tijelovo	variable date
June 22	Anti-Fascist Struggle Day	Dan antifašističke borbe
June 25	Statehood Day	Dan državnosti
August 5	Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders	Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja
August 15	Assumption of Mary	Velika Gospa
October 8	Independence Day	Dan neovisnosti
November 1	All Saints day	Dan svih svetih
December 25	Christmas	Božić
December 26	St. Stephen's Day	Prvi dan po Božiću, Sveti Stjepan

Note: Citizens of the Republic of Croatia who celebrate different religious holidays have the right not to work on those dates. This includes Christians who celebrate Christmas on January 7 per the Julian calendar, Muslims on the days of Ramadan Bayram and Kurban Bayram, and Jews on the days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

References

Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj, from Narodne novine 136/2002 (Croatian)
Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama zakona o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj, from Narodne novine 55/2008 (Croatian)

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