📅 Essentials
Romanian public holidays
Seventeen days a year, with Orthodox Easter and Pentecost moving each spring. Long weekends fill Brașov and jam the Prahova Valley — plan around them.
The list
- 1–2 January — New Year
- 6 January — Epiphany (Boboteaza)
- 7 January — St John the Baptist
- 24 January — Union of the Romanian Principalities
- Orthodox Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday — in 2027, 30 April – 3 May
- 1 May — Labour Day
- 1 June — Children's Day
- Orthodox Pentecost (Rusalii), Sunday and Monday — in 2027, 20–21 June
- 15 August — Assumption of the Virgin
- 30 November — St Andrew
- 1 December — National Day
- 25–26 December — Christmas
What it means for a visit
Banks and offices close; museums, restaurants and most shops in the centre stay open, but check individual opening hours on the day. The real effect is on crowds: long weekends — Easter, 1 May, Pentecost, 1 December, the days between Christmas and New Year — bring Bucharest up the Prahova Valley. Book hotels and restaurants well ahead, and expect DN1 to be at its worst on the first and last day. See getting here.
In 2027 the Junii parade, Brașov's own great spring custom, falls on Sunday 9 May, the Sunday after Orthodox Easter. See events.
