Swedish Public Holidays 2016, Sweden

Below you can find public holidays in Sweden for 2016. 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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Date	Day	Holiday
2016-01-01	Friday	New Year's Day
2016-01-05	Tuesday	Twelfth Day Eve *
2016-01-06	Wednesday	Epiphany
2016-03-24	Thursday	Maundy Thursday *
2016-03-25	Friday	Good Friday
2016-03-26	Saturday	Holy Saturday
2016-03-27	Sunday	Easter Day
2016-03-28	Monday	Easter Monday
2016-04-02	Saturday	Pentecost Eve
2016-04-03	Sunday	Whit Sunday
2016-04-30	Saturday	Walpurgis Eve *
2016-05-01	Sunday	May 1st
2016-05-05	Thursday	Ascension Day
2016-06-06	Monday	Sweden's National Day
2016-06-24	Friday	Midsummer Eve #
2016-06-25	Saturday	Midsummer Day
2016-11-04	Friday	All Saints Eve *
2016-11-05	Saturday	All Saints day
2016-12-24	Saturday	Christmas Eve #
2016-12-25	Sunday	Christmas Day
2016-12-26	Monday	Boxing Day
2016-12-31	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