Swedish Public Holidays 2008, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 2008. 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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Public Holidays 2008

2009

Date	Day	Holiday
2008-01-01	Tuesday	New Year's Day
2008-01-05	Saturday	Twelfth Day Eve *
2008-01-06	Sunday	Epiphany
2008-03-20	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
2008-03-21	Friday	Good Friday
2008-03-22	Saturday	Holy Saturday
2008-03-23	Sunday	Easter Day
2008-03-24	Monday	Easter Monday
2008-03-29	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
2008-03-30	Sunday	Whit Sunday
2008-04-30	Wednesday	Walpurgis Eve *
2008-05-01	Thursday	Ascension Day
2008-05-01	Thursday	May 1st
2008-06-06	Friday	Sweden's National Day
2008-06-20	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
2008-06-21	Saturday	Midsummer Day
2008-10-31	Friday	All Saints Eve *
2008-11-01	Saturday	All Saints day
2008-12-24	Wednesday	Christmas Eve #
2008-12-25	Thursday	Christmas Day
2008-12-26	Friday	Boxing Day
2008-12-31	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