Swedish Public Holidays 1996, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 1996. 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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1995

Public Holidays 1996

1997

Date	Day	Holiday
1996-01-01	Monday	New Year's Day
1996-01-05	Friday	Twelfth Day Eve *
1996-01-06	Saturday	Epiphany
1996-04-04	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
1996-04-05	Friday	Good Friday
1996-04-06	Saturday	Holy Saturday
1996-04-07	Sunday	Easter Day
1996-04-08	Monday	Easter Monday
1996-04-13	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
1996-04-14	Sunday	Whit Sunday
1996-04-30	Tuesday	Walpurgis Eve *
1996-05-01	Wednesday	May 1st
1996-05-16	Thursday	Ascension Day
1996-06-06	Thursday	Sweden's National Day
1996-06-21	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
1996-06-22	Saturday	Midsummer Day
1996-11-01	Friday	All Saints Eve *
1996-11-02	Saturday	All Saints day
1996-12-24	Tuesday	Christmas Eve #
1996-12-25	Wednesday	Christmas Day
1996-12-26	Thursday	Boxing Day
1996-12-31	Tuesday	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