Holiday Guide for Georgia in 2025

Georgia information

Population: 3.71m
Capital: Tbilisi
Calling Code: (995)
Time Zone: 0 UTC
Currency: Georgian Lari
Language: Georgian

List of National Holidays in Georgia in 2025

	Wednesday January 1st New Year's Day (Akhali ts'eli) Georgia: New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
	Thursday January 2nd New Year's Holiday (Bedoba) Georgia: Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
	Tuesday January 7th Orthodox Christmas (Krist'eshoba) Georgia: The Orthodox Church recognises 7 January as the day that Jesus was born
	Sunday January 19th Orthodox Epiphany (Natlisgheba) Georgia: In the Orthodox tradition, Epiphany is the day that Jesus was baptised
	Monday March 3rd Long Weekend! Mother's Day (Dedis dghe) Georgia: Mother's Day in Georgia has been a public holiday since 1991.
	Saturday March 8th International Women's Day (Kalta saertashoriso dghe) Georgia: The UN has declared March 8th to be a day to celebrate, recognise and remember women
	Wednesday April 9th Day of National Unity (Erovnuli ertianobis dghe) Georgia: In 1989 an anti-Soviet demonstration was dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries
	Friday April 18th Long Weekend! Orthodox Good Friday (Saaghdgomo dgheebi – ts'iteli parask'evi) Georgia: Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
	Saturday April 19th Great Saturday (didi shabati) Georgia: Orthodox Holy Saturday takes place on the Day before Orthodox Easter.
	Sunday April 20th Orthodox Easter Day (brts'q'invale aghdgoma) Georgia: 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.
	Monday April 21st Long Weekend! Orthodox Easter Monday (brts’q’invale orshabati) Georgia: The Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter, which can often mean that Orthodox Easter falls later than Easter observed elsewhere
	Friday May 9th Long Weekend! Day of Victory over Fascism (P'ashizmze gamarjvebis dghe) Georgia: Celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War
	Monday May 12th Long Weekend! Saint Andrew the First-Called Day (ts’minda andria p’irvelts’odebulis dghe) Georgia: Celebration of the day that the Apostle Andrew came to Georgia to spread Christianity
	Saturday May 17th Day of Family Purity Georgia: A public holiday intended to protect traditional values in this former Soviet republic in the Caucasus.
	Monday May 26th Long Weekend! Independence Day (Damouk'ideblobis dghe) Georgia: On May 26th 1918, the National Council of Georgia declared independence from the Russian Empire and the creation of Democratic Republic of Georgia
	Thursday August 28th Saint Mary's Day (Mariamoba) Georgia: The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin in the Orthodox Church, the mother of Jesus Christ
	Tuesday October 14th Day of Svetitskovloba (Mtskhetoba) Georgia: This public holiday commemorates the first Christian church to be established in Georgia. According to tradition the shirt of Jesus is buried under the church
	Sunday November 23rd Saint George's Day (Giorgoba) Georgia: Commemorates the torture of St. George on the wheel for refusing to make sacrifices to the Roman gods