Swedish Public Holidays 1997, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 1997. 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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1996

Public Holidays 1997

1998

Date	Day	Holiday
1997-01-01	Wednesday	New Year's Day
1997-01-05	Sunday	Twelfth Day Eve *
1997-01-06	Monday	Epiphany
1997-03-27	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
1997-03-28	Friday	Good Friday
1997-03-29	Saturday	Holy Saturday
1997-03-30	Sunday	Easter Day
1997-03-31	Monday	Easter Monday
1997-04-05	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
1997-04-06	Sunday	Whit Sunday
1997-04-30	Wednesday	Walpurgis Eve *
1997-05-01	Thursday	May 1st
1997-05-08	Thursday	Ascension Day
1997-06-06	Friday	Sweden's National Day
1997-06-20	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
1997-06-21	Saturday	Midsummer Day
1997-10-31	Friday	All Saints Eve *
1997-11-01	Saturday	All Saints day
1997-12-24	Wednesday	Christmas Eve #
1997-12-25	Thursday	Christmas Day
1997-12-26	Friday	Boxing Day
1997-12-31	Wednesday	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