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.
NORWAY
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day  
March 21 Good Friday
March 23 Easter  
March 24 Easter Monday
May 1 May Day
May 1 Ascension
May 11 Whit Sunday (Pentecost)
May 12 Whit Monday
May 17 Constitution Day
December 24 Christmas Eve (Half day from 12 noon)
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 26 Boxing Day
December 31 New Year's Eve (Half day from 12 noon)
1The Constitution was signed at Eidsvoll in 1814 (Norway remained united with Sweden until 1905)
Non-Holiday Observances
February 2nd Sunday Mother’s Day
February 21 Birthday of King Harald V
May 8 Liberation day (Liberation from Germany after WW2)
June 7 Union Dissolution (Norway gains independence from Sweden, 1905)
June 23 Midsummer's Eve
July 4 Birthday of Queen Sonja
July 20 Birthday of Crown Prince Haakon
July 29 St.Olav's Day
September 22 Birthday of Princess Martha Louise
November 2nd Sunday Fathers' Day  
You should know:

Many Norwegians take holidays during the week from Palm Sunday to Easter Monday, so it may be difficult to do business during that time.

Weekend  - Saturday, Sunday