Public holidays in Estonia

All official holidays in Estonia are established by acts of Parliament.

Public holidays

The following are holidays that mean days off:

Date	English Name	Estonian Name	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	uusaasta
February 24	Independence Day	iseseisvuspäev	National Day – celebrates the declaration of independence in 1918.
Moveable Friday	Good Friday	suur reede
Moveable Sunday	Easter Sunday	ülestõusmispühade 1. püha	Commonly known as lihavõtted.
May 1	Spring Day (May Day)	kevadpüha
Moveable	Whitsunday (Pentecost)	nelipühade 1. püha
June 23	Victory Day	võidupüha	Celebrates the victory in the Battle of Võnnu during the Estonian War of Independence.
June 24	St. John's Day or Midsummer Day	jaanipäev	Jaaniõhtu is celebrated in the night before Midsummer Day.
August 20	Day of Restoration of Independence	taasiseseisvumispäev	Celebrates Estonia's restoration of independence in 1991.
December 24	Christmas Eve	jõululaupäev
December 25	Christmas Day	esimene jõulupüha
December 26	Boxing Day	teine jõulupüha

National Holidays

The following holidays do not give a day off:

Date	English Name	Estonian Name	Remarks
January 6	The Epiphany	kolmekuningapäev
February 2	Anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty	Tartu rahulepingu aastapäev	Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence
March 14	Native Language Day	emakeelepäev	Kristjan Jaak Peterson's birthday.
Moveable Sunday	Mothers' Day	emadepäev	Held on the second Sunday of May.
June 4	National Flag Day	Eesti lipu päev	Date when the Flag of Estonia was first consecrated in 1884.
June 14	Day of Mourning and Commemoration	leinapäev	Commemorating the victims of Soviet deportations in 1941 and 1949.
August 23	European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism	kommunismi ja natsismi ohvrite mälestuspäev	Day when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939.
Moveable Sunday	Grandparents Day	vanavanemate päev	Held on the second Sunday of September.
September 22	Resistance Fighting Day	vastupanuvõitluse päev	Otto Tief's attempt to restore the Estonian independence in 1944
November 2	All Souls' Day	hingedepäev
Moveable Sunday	Fathers' Day	isadepäev	Held on the second Sunday of November.
November 16	Day of Declaration of Sovereignty	taassünni päev	Estonian Declaration of Sovereignty, which was issued in 1988.

References

• Public and National Holidays Act (Estonian)
• Estonian Holidays in 2014
• List of holidays celebrated in the European Union in 2006 was used for translation:
  • in Estonian
  • in English