Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
FINLAND
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day  
January 6 Epiphany
March 21 Good Friday
March 23 Easter Day
March 24 Easter Monday
May 1 May Day or Vappu1
May 11 Whit Sunday
June 20 Midsummer's Eve or Juhannusaatto2
June 21 Midsummer's Day or Juhannuspaiva
November 1 All Saints Day
December 6 Independence Day
December 24 Christmas Eve2
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 26 St. Stephen's Day
1Vappu is really the night of 30 April to 1 May so there may not be too many people working in the ..afternoon of 30 April.
2Partial holiday only.

You should know:

Holidays falling on a weekend are not moved

Weekend Saturday, Sunday