All official holidays in Estonia are established by acts of Parliament.
Public holidays
The following are holidays that mean days off:
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| 1 January
| New Year's Day
| uusaasta
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| 24 February
| Independence Day
| iseseisvuspäev
| National Day – celebrates the Declaration of Independence in 1918.
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| Moveable Friday
| Good Friday
| suur reede
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| Moveable Sunday
| Easter Sunday
| ülestõusmispühade 1. püha
| Commonly known as lihavõtted or munadepühad.
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| 1 May
| Spring Day
| kevadpüha
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| Moveable Sunday
| Whit Sunday
| nelipühade 1. püha
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| 23 June
| Victory Day
| Võidupüha
| Celebrates the victory in the Battle of Võnnu during the Estonian War of Independence.
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| 24 June
| Saint John's Day
| Jaanipäev
| Jaaniõhtu is celebrated in the night before Midsummer Day.
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| 20 August
| Independence Restoration Day
| taasiseseisvumispäev
| Celebrates Estonia's Restoration of Independence in 1991.
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| 24 December
| Christmas Eve
| jõululaupäev
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| 25 December
| Christmas Day
| esimene jõulupüha
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| 26 December
| Second Day of Christmas
| teine jõulupüha
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National holidays
The following holidays do not give a day off:
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| 6 January
| Epiphany
| kolmekuningapäev
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| 2 February
| Anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty
| Tartu rahulepingu aastapäev
| Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence
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| 14 March
| Native Language Day
| emakeelepäev
| Kristjan Jaak Peterson
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| Moveable Sunday
| Mother's Day
| emadepäev
| Held on the second Sunday of May.
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| 4 June
| Flag Day
| Eesti lipu päev
| Date when the Flag of Estonia was first consecrated in 1884.
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| 14 June
| Day of Mourning and Commemoration
| leinapäev
| Commemorating the victims of Soviet deportations in 1941 and 1949.
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| 23 August
| European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
| kommunismi ja natsismi ohvrite mälestuspäev
| Day when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939.
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| Moveable Sunday
| Grandparents' Day
| vanavanemate päev
| Held on the second Sunday of September.
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| 22 September
| Resistance Fighting Day
| vastupanuvõitluse päev
| Otto Tief's attempt to restore Estonian independence in 1944
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| 1 October
|Local Government Day
|omavalitsuspäev
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| 2 November
| All Souls' Day
| hingedepäev
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| Moveable Sunday
| Father's Day
| isadepäev
| Held on the second Sunday of November.
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| 16 November
| Day of Declaration of Sovereignty
| taassünni päev
| Estonian Declaration of Sovereignty, which was issued in 1988.
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References
- Public and National Holidays Act
- Estonian Holidays in 2014
- List of holidays celebrated in the European Union in 2006 was used for translation:
- in Estonian
- in English