Holiday Guide for Romania in 2020

Romania information

Population: 19.29m
Capital: Bucharest
Calling Code: (40)
Time Zone: +2 UTC
Currency: Romanian leu
Language: Romanian

List of National Holidays in Romania in 2020

	Wednesday January 1st New Year's Day Romania: New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
	Thursday January 2nd Day after New Year's Day Romania: Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
	Friday January 24th Long Weekend! Unification Day Romania: Holiday since 2015. Marks the political union between Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859
	Friday April 17th Long Weekend! Orthodox Good Friday Romania: Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
	Sunday April 19th Orthodox Easter Day Romania: 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 20th Long Weekend! Orthodox Easter Monday Romania: 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 1st Long Weekend! Labour Day Romania: This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
	Monday June 1st Long Weekend! International Children's Day Romania: A new holiday since 2017. The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International Children's Day in 1925
	Sunday June 7th Orthodox Pentecost Romania: Orthodox Pentecost Sunday, also known as Holy Spirit Sunday, is observed fifty days after Orthodox Easter.
	Monday June 8th Long Weekend! Descent of the Holy Spirit Romania: Orthodox Pentecost Monday, also known as Holy Spirit Monday, is observed fifty days (approx. seven weeks) after Orthodox Easter.
	Saturday August 15th St Mary's Day Romania: The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ
	Monday November 30th Long Weekend! Feast of St. Andrew Romania: It is traditionally said that St. Andrew brought Christianity to Romania in the 1st Century AD
	Tuesday December 1st National Day Romania: The National day of Romania and celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918
	Friday December 25th Long Weekend! Christmas Day Romania: Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
	Saturday December 26th Second day of Christmas Romania: Several countries and regions around the world extend their public holidays for Christmas beyond 25th December