📅 Essentials
Romanian public holidays
Seventeen days a year, with Orthodox Easter and Pentecost moving each spring. Long weekends fill the city and the Oltenia roads — plan around them.
The list
- 1–2 January — New Year
- 6 January — Epiphany (Boboteaza)
- 7 January — St John the Baptist
- 24 January — Union of the Romanian Principalities
- Orthodox Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday — in 2027, 30 April – 3 May
- 1 May — Labour Day
- 1 June — Children's Day
- Orthodox Pentecost (Rusalii), Sunday and Monday — in 2027, 20–21 June
- 15 August — Assumption of the Virgin
- 30 November — St Andrew
- 1 December — National Day
- 25–26 December — Christmas
What it means for a visit
Banks and offices close; museums, restaurants and most shops in the centre stay open, but check individual opening hours on the day. The real effect is on crowds: long weekends — Easter, 1 May, Pentecost, 1 December, the days between Christmas and New Year — bring Bucharest up the Prahova Valley. Book hotels and restaurants well ahead, and expect DN1 to be at its worst on the first and last day. See getting here.
1 December, the National Day, matters more here than in most cities: it falls inside the Christmas market season and makes the single busiest weekend of the Craiova year. See events.
