Holidays in Bulgaria and Romania in 2025

04.01.2025

Easter this year falls at the end of April, marking the first long holiday of the year. The longest break in 2025 will be for Christmas, with a total of 5 days off. Check out the public and holiday schedules in Bulgaria and Romania for 2025, in addition to January 1, 2025 (New Year's Day), which was a public holiday.

For Bulgaria:

March 3 – Liberation Day, a national holiday
April 18-21 – Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday (+ Monday)
May 1 – International Workers' Day
May 6 – St. George's Day, Day of Bravery and the Bulgarian Army
May 24 – Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, the Bulgarian Alphabet, Education, and Culture, and Slavic Literature
September 6 – Unification Day
September 22 – Independence Day
November 1 – Day of the People's Enlighteners
December 24 – Christmas Eve
December 25-26 – Christmas

Note: When public holidays (except Easter holidays) fall on a Saturday and/or Sunday, the first one or two working days following them are non-working days.

School Vacations for Bulgarian Students in 2025:

January 2 – Last day of the Christmas break
February 5 – Mid-term break
March 29 – April 6 – Spring break for grades 1–11
April 4–6 – Spring break for grade 12
May 21 and May 23 – Non-school days due to matriculation and national assessment exams
June 2 – September 15 – Summer break for grades 1–3
June 16 – September 15 – Summer break for grades 4–6
June 30 – September 15 – Summer break for grades 5–11

For Romania:
In 2025, Romanians will have 17 public holidays, 13 of which fall on weekdays. The first mini-break of the year is right at the beginning. Romania's northern neighbors enjoy a long weekend from January 4–7, 2025, as January 6 and 7 are public holidays.

Public Holidays in Romania for 2025:

January 1 – New Year’s Day
January 2 – Day after New Year’s
January 6 – Epiphany
January 7 – Saint John the Baptist
January 24 – Unification of the Romanian Principalities
April 18 – Good Friday
April 20 – Easter
April 21 – Easter Monday
May 1 – Labor Day
June 1 – Children’s Day
June 8 – Pentecost
June 9 – Pentecost Monday
August 15 – Assumption of the Virgin Mary
November 30 – Saint Andrew’s Day
December 1 – Romania’s National Day
December 25 – Christmas
December 26 – Boxing Day

School Vacations in Romania for 2025:

Until January 7, 2025 (inclusive): Christmas break. Afterward, the remaining school vacations for the 2024–2025 academic year include:
At the end of Module 3: A one-week break, determined by regional school inspectorates, between February 10 and March 2, 2025
At the end of Module 4: April 18–27, 2025
At the end of Module 5 (summer vacation): June 21 – September 7, 2025.