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🇲🇹 Malta Long Weekends 2026

5 long weekends in Malta in 2026. Plan your trips around these dates.

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Good Friday
3 days
3 April 2026 — 5 April 2026
Workers' Day
3 days
1 May 2026 — 3 May 2026
Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul
3 days
27 June 2026 — 29 June 2026
Independence Day
3 days
19 September 2026 — 21 September 2026
Christmas Day
3 days
25 December 2026 — 27 December 2026
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Long Weekends Summary — Malta 2026

Longest
Good Friday — 3 days, no leave used
By length
0 × 4-day, 5 × 3-day

How long weekends are calculated

A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend. It runs longer when holidays stack — Good Friday plus Easter Monday gives four days — and only statutory days off count, never days that are merely customary. All of these need no annual leave.
Source: Chapter 252, Laws of Malta ↗ (the governing law) · Dates verified annually. · Report an error
The National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act. The statute text is served as an attachment, so the day names are not in the page itself.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many long weekends does Malta have in 2026?+
Malta has 5 long weekends in 2026: 0 four-day weekends, and 5 three-day weekends.
What's the longest weekend in Malta in 2026?+
The longest is around Good Friday, running from 3 April 2026 to 5 April 2026 — 3 consecutive days off with no leave days needed.
How are long weekends calculated?+
A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend, without using any annual leave. It gets longer when holidays stack: Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes a 4-day weekend, and a holiday on both the Thursday and the Friday makes four days from Thursday to Sunday. Days that are widely taken off but are not statutory — Christmas Eve in Sweden, or the day after Ascension in Belgium — do not count, because your employer is not obliged to give them to you.
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