Christmas Day around the world

Christmas Day is a public holiday in 195 countries in our calendar. The date can differ: some countries follow other calendars or move the day off.

195 countries

Country	Local name	2026	2027
Albania	Krishtlindjet	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
American Samoa		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Andorra	Nadal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Anguilla		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Antarctica		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Antigua and Barbuda		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Argentina	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Aruba	Pasco di Nacemento	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Australia		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Austria	Christtag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Bangladesh	বড়দিন	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Barbados		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Belgium	Kerstmis	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Belize		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Benin	Jour de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Bermuda		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Bolivia	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Botswana		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Brazil	Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
British Virgin Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Brunei	Hari Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Bulgaria	Рождество Христово	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Burkina Faso		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Burundi	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cameroon		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Canada		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cape Verde	Dia do Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Caribbean Netherlands	Eerste kerstdag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cayman Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Central African Republic	Jour de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Chad	Fête de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Chile	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Christmas Island		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cocos (Keeling) Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Colombia	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Comoros		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cook Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Costa Rica	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Croatia	Božić	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cuba	Día de Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Curaçao	Pasku di Nasementu	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Cyprus	Χριστούγεννα	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Czech Republic	1. svátek vánoční	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Denmark	Juledag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Djibouti	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Dominica		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Dominican Republic	Día de Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Ecuador	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
El Salvador	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Equatorial Guinea	Día de Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Estonia	esimene jõulupüha	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Eswatini		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Ethiopia	የገና ወይም የልደት በዓል	Wed 7 Jan	Thu 7 Jan
Falkland Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Faroe Islands	Jóladagur	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Federated States of Micronesia		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Fiji		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Finland	Joulupäivä	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
France	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
French Guiana	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
French Polynesia	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Gabon	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Georgia	ქრისტეშობა	Wed 7 Jan	Thu 7 Jan
Germany	Erster Weihnachtstag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Ghana		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Gibraltar		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Greece	Χριστούγεννα	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Greenland	Juullip ullua	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Grenada		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Guadeloupe	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Guam		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Guatemala	Día de Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Guernsey		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Guinea	Fête de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Guinea-Bissau	Dia de Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Guyana		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Haiti	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Honduras	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Hong Kong	聖誕節	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Hungary	Karácsony	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Iceland	Jóladagur	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Indonesia	Hari Raya Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Ireland		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Isle of Man		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Italy	Natale	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Ivory Coast	Fête de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Jamaica		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Jersey		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Jordan	عيد الميلاد المجيد	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Kenya		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Kingdom of the Netherlands	Eerste kerstdag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Kiribati		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Kyrgyzstan	Ыйса Пайгамбардын туулган күнү	Wed 7 Jan	Thu 7 Jan
Latvia	Pirmie Ziemassvētki	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Lebanon	عيد الميلاد	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Lesotho		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Liberia		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Liechtenstein	Weihnachten	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Lithuania	Šv. Kalėdų pirma diena	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Luxembourg	Chrëschtdag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Madagascar	Fetin'ny noely	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Malawi		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Malaysia	Hari Krismas	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Mali	Fête de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Malta	Il-Milied	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Marshall Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Martinique	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Mauritius		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Mayotte	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Mexico	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Monaco	Le jour de Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Montserrat		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Myanmar	ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Namibia		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Nauru		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Nepal	क्रिसमसको दिन	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
New Caledonia	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
New Zealand		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Nicaragua	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Niger	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Nigeria		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Niue		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Norfolk Island		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
North Macedonia	Божиќ	Wed 7 Jan	Thu 7 Jan
Northern Mariana Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Norway	Første juledag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Palau		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Panama	Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Papua New Guinea		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Paraguay	Día de la Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Peru	Navidad del Señor	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Philippines		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Pitcairn Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Poland	Boże Narodzenie (pierwszy dzień)	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Portugal	Dia de Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Puerto Rico		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Republic of the Congo	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Romania	Crăciunul	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Russia	Рождество Христово	Wed 7 Jan	Thu 7 Jan
Rwanda	Noheli	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Réunion	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint Barthélemy	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint Kitts and Nevis		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint Lucia		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Saint-Martin	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Samoa		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
San Marino	Natale	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Senegal	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Seychelles		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Sierra Leone		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Singapore		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Sint Maarten	Eerste kerstdag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Slovakia	Prvý sviatok vianočný	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Slovenia	božič	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Solomon Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
South Africa		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
South Korea	기독탄신일	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
South Sudan		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Spain	Natividad del Señor	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Sri Lanka	නත්තල් උත්සව දිනය	Fri 25 Dec	—
Sudan	عيد الميلاد	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Suriname	Eerste kerstdag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Første juledag	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Sweden	Juldagen	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Switzerland	Weihnachten	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Syria	عيد الميلاد	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
São Tomé and Príncipe	Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Tanzania	Kuzaliwa Kristo	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
The Bahamas		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
The Gambia		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Timor-Leste	Dia de Natal	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Togo	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Tokelau		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Tonga	ʻAho Kilisimasi	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Trinidad and Tobago		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Turks and Caicos Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Tuvalu	Kilisimasi	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Uganda		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
United Kingdom		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
United States		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
United States Minor Outlying Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
United States Virgin Islands		Fri 25 Dec	Fri 24 Dec
Vanuatu		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Vatican City	Natale	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Venezuela	Día de Navidad	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Wallis and Futuna	Noël	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Zambia		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Zimbabwe		Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec
Åland	Joulupäivä	Fri 25 Dec	Sat 25 Dec