📅 Live Holiday Calendar — Iceland

Live public holiday calendar for Iceland, embedded directly from Google's official public calendar — always shows Google's current data.

◀ Showing upcoming holidays — use the back arrow in the calendar's toolbar to see earlier dates this year.

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🏛️ Official Statutory National Holidays — Iceland

Statutory public holidays mandated by national government law in Iceland. These fixed dates reflect official non-working days. For dynamic, movable religious observances (e.g., Eid, Easter), refer to the live calendar embed above.

⚠ These entries are sourced from Iceland's official government portal but have not yet been individually cross-checked against a specific confirming page — treat the dates below as a helpful starting point, not a final confirmed record.

🧳 Upcoming Long Weekends in Iceland

Statutory holidays landing on a Monday, Friday, Tuesday or Thursday create a long-weekend opportunity — here's what's coming up.

📖 How Public Holidays Work in Iceland

Public holidays generally split into two kinds: fixed-date ones that land on the same calendar day every year — a founding or independence anniversary, for instance — and movable ones whose date shifts annually because they follow a different calendar system entirely. Iceland's calendar can include holidays governed by the Easter computus that many Christian-majority countries use, the Hijri lunar calendar behind Islamic observances such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, or a lunisolar cycle behind holidays like Lunar New Year. As a country in Europe, Iceland sits in a region where both kinds of calendar are common — which is exactly why the live calendar above lists each year's actual computed date rather than assuming a repeat.

Under Iceland's labor law, fixed-date national public holidays carry mandatory non-working status for public administration, financial institutions, and commercial enterprises — 1 such holiday is documented for Iceland in the table above, currently sourced from Iceland's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Þjóðhátíðardagurinn (National Day of Iceland) on June 17. Official gazette announcements are published by government authorities to confirm these mandated closures.

It's also worth distinguishing a public holiday from an observance. A public holiday is a government-mandated day off — offices, banks and schools close. An observance marks something culturally or religiously significant without requiring anyone to close for it. This page tracks public holidays only, since those are the dates that actually change a day's schedule.

Iceland is also divided into states and provinces, and countries structured this way often layer a regional founding day, a local patron festival or a province-specific holiday on top of the national calendar — observed in one state but not nationwide. The calendar above covers Iceland's national holidays; see the Iceland states & provinces directory for population and government data on each one.