A public-holiday calendar records the days Sweden has set aside as statutory time off. National holidays apply nationwide; where an official regional or provincial list is published, those dates are included separately and clearly labelled rather than folded into the national figures. This calendar is a reference, not a legal determination of anyone's leave entitlement. Dates move for two common reasons: many countries observe a fixed-date holiday on the nearest working day when it falls at a weekend, and some observances follow lunar or other non-Gregorian reckoning that shifts against the everyday calendar. Regional holidays are always shown as regional and never added to the national count. The licence terms and the government producer behind each list are credited on the sources page.
Reading the table
The table gives the date a holiday falls on, the observance date when a weekend shift or substitute day applies, and notes published with the source. A Regional · <region> badge marks a holiday that applies only in that region; it is never counted as nationwide. Some countries publish both the original date and the observed date, so both are shown instead of silently adjusting one. Employers, schools, and individual workplaces may follow different calendars or grant extra days, so treat this table as a guide rather than an entitlement. For a wider comparison of why observance moves between countries, see why holiday dates differ between countries. The official source is always the final authority.
Where these dates come from
Sweden's public holidays, the röda dagar or red days, are set by law, principally Lag (1989:253), and reused from Swedish government open data. The list is national and Sweden has no regional public holidays, so every date here applies across the country. Several red days are moveable: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Whit Sunday follow Easter, and Midsummer Day and All Saints' Day are tied to particular Saturdays, which is why they move within a few days each year. When a red day falls at a weekend, Sweden does not generally move it to a weekday, so the date is listed as it falls. Midsummer Eve and Christmas Eve are widely treated as holidays by employers but are not statutory red days, and the table reflects the statutory list. The desk is rebuilt from the legal source, which is a short statute and is rarely amended. National Day on 6 June is a fixed public holiday, and it is one of the few red days not tied either to Easter or to a particular Saturday.