Holiday Guide for Bulgaria in 2025

Bulgaria information

Population: 6.93m
Capital: Sofia
Calling Code: (359)
Time Zone: +2 UTC
Currency: Bulgarian lev
Language: Bulgarian

List of National Holidays in Bulgaria in 2025

	Wednesday January 1st New Year's Day Bulgaria: New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
	Monday March 3rd Long Weekend! Liberation Day Bulgaria: March 3rd is Bulgaria's National Day. It honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romania.
	Friday April 18th Long Weekend! Orthodox Good Friday Bulgaria: Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
	Saturday April 19th Orthodox Holy Saturday Bulgaria: Orthodox Holy Saturday takes place on the Day before Orthodox Easter.
	Sunday April 20th Orthodox Easter Day Bulgaria: Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.
	Thursday May 1st Labour Day Bulgaria: This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
	Tuesday May 6th St. George's Day Bulgaria: St. George is the patron saint of Portugal, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, and many cities across Europe
	Saturday May 24th Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture Bulgaria: Slavic missionaries Cyril (Constantine) and Metod (Methodius) came to Great Moravia
	Monday May 26th Long Weekend! Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture (in lieu) Bulgaria: Slavic missionaries Cyril (Constantine) and Metod (Methodius) came to Great Moravia
	Saturday September 6th Unification Day Bulgaria: Commemorates the unification of Eastern Rumelia and the Principality of Bulgaria on this day in 1885
	Monday September 8th Long Weekend! Unification Day (in lieu) Bulgaria: Commemorates the unification of Eastern Rumelia and the Principality of Bulgaria on this day in 1885
	Monday September 22nd Long Weekend! Independence Day Bulgaria: Bulgarian Independence Day marks Bulgaria's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908
	Tuesday September 23rd Independence Day (in lieu) Bulgaria: Bulgarian Independence Day marks Bulgaria's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908
	Wednesday December 24th Christmas Eve Bulgaria: The highlight of Bulgarian Christmas Eve is a feast marking the end of the fasting of advent
	Thursday December 25th Christmas Day Bulgaria: Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
	Friday December 26th Long Weekend! Second Day of Christmas Bulgaria: Several countries and regions around the world extend their public holidays for Christmas beyond 25th December