Swedish Public Holidays 2005, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 2005. 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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2004

Public Holidays 2005

2006

Date	Day	Holiday
2005-01-01	Saturday	New Year's Day
2005-01-05	Wednesday	Twelfth Day Eve *
2005-01-06	Thursday	Epiphany
2005-03-24	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
2005-03-25	Friday	Good Friday
2005-03-26	Saturday	Holy Saturday
2005-03-27	Sunday	Easter Day
2005-03-28	Monday	Easter Monday
2005-04-02	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
2005-04-03	Sunday	Whit Sunday
2005-04-30	Saturday	Walpurgis Eve *
2005-05-01	Sunday	May 1st
2005-05-05	Thursday	Ascension Day
2005-06-06	Monday	Sweden's National Day
2005-06-24	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
2005-06-25	Saturday	Midsummer Day
2005-11-04	Friday	All Saints Eve *
2005-11-05	Saturday	All Saints day
2005-12-24	Saturday	Christmas Eve #
2005-12-25	Sunday	Christmas Day
2005-12-26	Monday	Boxing Day
2005-12-31	Saturday	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