Public Service Holidays
Verified 01 January 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Some legal holidays are non-working holidays in the public service. However, some services cannot be interrupted and public holidays can be worked (e.g. in hospitals). We present you with the information you need to know.
General case
Legal Feast | Date |
|---|---|
New Year's Day | Wednesday 1er january 2025 |
Easter Monday | Monday 21 November april 2025 |
Labor Day | Thursday 1er may 2025 |
Victory 1945 | Thursday, May 8, 2025 |
Ascension | Thursday, May 29, 2025 |
Pentecost Monday | Monday, June 9, 2025 |
National Day | Monday, July 14, 2025 |
Assumption | Friday, August 15, 2025 |
All Saints' Day | Saturday 1er november 2025 |
Armistice 1918 | Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
Christmas | Thursday, December 25, 2025 |
Alsace-Moselle
Legal Feast | Date |
|---|---|
New Year's Day | Wednesday 1er january 2025 |
Good Friday (in communes with a Protestant temple or mixed church) | Friday, April 18, 2025 |
Easter Monday | Monday 21 November april 2025 |
Labor Day | Thursday 1er may 2025 |
Victory 1945 | Thursday, May 8, 2025 |
Ascension | Thursday, May 29, 2025 |
Pentecost Monday | Monday, June 9, 2025 |
National Day | Monday, July 14, 2025 |
Assumption | Friday, August 15, 2025 |
All Saints' Day | Saturday 1er november 2025 |
Armistice 1918 | Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
1er Christmas Day | Thursday, December 25, 2025 |
2e Christmas Day | Friday, December 26, 2025 |
Overseas
Legal Feast | Date |
|---|---|
New Year's Day | Wednesday 1er january 2025 |
Easter Monday | Monday 21 November april 2025 |
Labor Day | Thursday 1er may 2025 |
Victory 1945 | Thursday, May 8, 2025 |
Ascension | Thursday, May 29, 2025 |
Pentecost Monday | Monday, June 9, 2025 |
National Day | Monday, July 14, 2025 |
Assumption | Friday, August 15, 2025 |
All Saints' Day | Saturday 1er november 2025 |
Armistice 1918 | Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
Christmas | Thursday, December 25, 2025 |
In addition to national legal holidays, the day of commemoration of the abolition of slavery is a public holiday in the DromDrom : Overseas Department and Region. The date varies by department, under the following conditions:
Dom concerned | Date |
|---|---|
Guadeloupe | May 27 |
Guiana | June 10 |
Martinique | May 22 |
Mayotte | April 27 |
Reunion | December 20 |
Saint Barthelemy | October 9 |
Saint Martin's Day | May 27 |
Public holidays are non-working days when service requirements allow it.
Some public services cannot interrupt their activity on public holidays (hospitals, public gardens,...) and these days are then included in your work schedule and worked.
In general, non-working holidays are not recoverable (in general).
However, in the hospital public service (HPF), public holidays may in some cases give rise to compensation.
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General case
Non-working holidays cannot be recovered.
Your employer administration cannot ask you to make up for hours not worked on a holiday.
And conversely, you can also not claim an additional day off or a compensatory allowance when a holiday falls on a non-working day (such as a Sunday).
If you're part-time, you can't change your schedule either, when a holiday falls on a day when you're not working because of your part-time.
Hospital civil service
When a holiday coincides with a weekly day of rest, you may be compensated for the holiday (in the form of a day off) if you are working at variable rest, i.e. if you work at least 10 Sundays or public holidays per year.
If your weekly rest is on fixed dates, you are compensated if your weekly rest does not include both Saturday and Sunday. In this case, compensation is granted when the holiday coincides with the working day.
On the other hand, no compensation is granted if your weekly rest periods are fixed on Saturday and Sunday.
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General case
Non-working holidays cannot be recovered.
Your employer administration cannot ask you to make up for hours not worked on a holiday.
And conversely, you can also not claim an additional day off or a compensatory allowance when a holiday falls on a non-working day (such as a Sunday).
If you're part-time, you can't change your schedule either, when a holiday falls on a day when you're not working because of your part-time.
Hospital civil service
When a holiday coincides with a weekly day of rest, you may be compensated for the holiday (in the form of a day off) if you are working at variable rest, i.e. if you work at least 10 Sundays or public holidays per year.
If your weekly rest is on fixed dates, you are compensated if your weekly rest does not include both Saturday and Sunday. In this case, compensation is granted when the holiday coincides with the working day.
On the other hand, no compensation is granted if your weekly rest periods are fixed on Saturday and Sunday.
In a department where holidays are usually not worked, you do not have to take a day off on the holiday included in a vacation period.
Example :
If you work Monday to Friday, you do not have to take 1 day off for Tuesday, November 11, 2025 if you are off that week.
Conversely, in a department where holidays are usually worked (for example, in hospital wards), you must lay a day off on the holiday included in a period of vacation.
Example :
If you are working in a department where July 14 is usually worked and on your work schedule, you must take a day off if you wish to take time off.
A public holiday usually unworked is paid as a normal working day.
A public holiday usually worked is remunerated either under the usual conditions or with a surcharge, depending on the authorities.
Example :
Staff members of the decentralized services of the prison administration are entitled to a lump sum allowance when they work on a public holiday.
The same is true of hospital workers.
In some body or framework of usesHowever, it is sometimes possible to benefit from bonuses in case of work on public holidays.
Example :
Staff members belonging to the employment scheme of territorial social workers employed as domestic helpers, carers or family workers may receive a lump sum allowance when they work on a public holiday.
Public holidays and day of solidarity: Articles L621-8 to L621-10
Specific provisions for overseas communities, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
List of legal holidays