Swedish Public Holidays 1959, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 1959. In bold text is marked official Swedish public holidays (bank holidays). With regular text is marked days counted as a Sunday eventhough they are not officially a public holiday. Marked with regular text are also days which are sometimes counted as half working days as many companies ans shops are closed or have shorter opening hours. See the right column for comments related to each public holiday.

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1958

Public Holidays 1959

1960

Date	Day	Holiday
1959-01-01	Thursday	New Year's Day
1959-01-05	Monday	Twelfth Day Eve *
1959-01-06	Tuesday	Epiphany
1959-03-26	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
1959-03-27	Friday	Good Friday
1959-03-28	Saturday	Holy Saturday
1959-03-29	Sunday	Easter Day
1959-03-30	Monday	Easter Monday
1959-04-04	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
1959-04-05	Sunday	Whit Sunday
1959-04-30	Thursday	Walpurgis Eve *
1959-05-01	Friday	May 1st
1959-05-07	Thursday	Ascension Day
1959-06-06	Saturday	Sweden's National Day
1959-06-19	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
1959-06-20	Saturday	Midsummer Day
1959-10-30	Friday	All Saints Eve *
1959-10-31	Saturday	All Saints day
1959-12-24	Thursday	Christmas Eve #
1959-12-25	Friday	Christmas Day
1959-12-26	Saturday	Boxing Day
1959-12-31	Thursday	New Year's eve #

* = Not an official public holiday, but is often a half working day

# = Counted as a Sunday and is work free according to Swedish vacation legislation