Holiday Guide for Greece in 2021

Greece information

Population: 10.72m
Capital: Athens
Calling Code: (30)
Time Zone: +2 UTC
Currency: Euro
Language: Greek (modern)

List of National Holidays in Greece in 2021

	Friday January 1st Long Weekend! New Year's Day Greece: New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
	Wednesday January 6th Epiphany Greece: Commemorates Christ's baptism by John the Baptist in the river Jordan.
	Monday March 15th Long Weekend! Clean Monday Greece: Also known as Ash Monday. Clean Monday begins the season of Great Lent in Eastern Orthodox Churches
	Thursday March 25th Greek Independence Day Greece: Greece's Independence Day is actually a holiday that has blended over time with an older festival - the feast of the Annunciation
	Friday April 30th Long Weekend! Orthodox Good Friday Greece: Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
	Saturday May 1st Protomagia Greece: While officially Labour Day, the first day of May in Greece is associated with the custom of Protomagia, a celebration of the awakening of nature after a long period of winter.
	Saturday May 1st Great Saturday Greece: Orthodox Holy Saturday takes place on the Day before Orthodox Easter.
	Sunday May 2nd Orthodox Easter Day Greece: 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 May 3rd Long Weekend! Orthodox Easter Monday Greece: 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
	Monday June 21st Long Weekend! Holy Spirit Monday Greece: Orthodox Pentecost Monday, also known as Holy Spirit Monday, is observed fifty days (approx. seven weeks) after Orthodox Easter.
	Sunday August 15th Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greece: The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ
	Thursday October 28th National Anniversary Day Greece: Also known as 'World War ΙΙ National Holiday', this holiday celebrates Greece's refusal to yield to the Axis powers in 1940.
	Saturday December 25th Christmas Day Greece: Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
	Sunday December 26th Synaxis of the Mother of God Greece: The second day of Christmas in the Orthodox Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary