Holiday Calendar for Poland in August
Poland observes public holidays, enshrined in the country’s law as well as the nation’s tradition dear - one way or another - to every Pole. Overview of holidays and many observances in Poland. 
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August 2025
Saturday 2 August - Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti in Poland (Dzień Pamięci o Zagładzie Romów i Sinti, set on the anniversary of the Roma and Sinti exterminaton at Auschwitz concentration camp, established in 2011)
Friday 15 August - Armed Forces Day in Poland; Feast day of the Assumption of Mary (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu)
Sunday 31 August - Day of Solidarity and Freedom in Poland (It commemorates the August Agreement of 1980); International Solidarity Day
September 2025
Monday 1 September - Veteran's Day in Poland; The day Germany invaded Poland in 1939 (triggering World War II)
October 2025
Thursday 2 October - World Multiplication Table Day (Held on the first Friday in October)
Friday 10 October - Arbor Day in Poland (Święta Drzewa)
Tuesday 14 October - National Education Day in Poland (formerly Teachers' Day)
November 2025
Tuesday 11 November - Civil Service Day in Poland (celebrated since 2000); Independence Day of Poland (de. Polen Unabhängigkeit)
Sunday 16 November - Foreign Service Day in Poland (Dzień Służby Zagranicznej RP)
December 2025
Thursday 4 December - Miner's Day in Poland (Barbórka)
Saturday 6 December - Mikołajki in Poland (on December 6 - on this day Santa Claus gives sweets to children)
Saturday 13 December - Martial Law Victims Remembrance Day in Poland (Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Stanu Wojennego)
Friday 26 December - St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Andorra, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland); Second day of Christmas (Western Christianity. Public holiday in the Netherlands, Poland, Norway); Day after Christmas
Wednesday 31 December - Sylwester in Poland (In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the new year)
January 2026
Sunday 25 January - The bird wedding (is an annual custom known in some European regions, but especially in the Sorbs in Lusatia. Here it is called Lower Sorbian Ptaškowa swajźba and Upper Sorbian Ptači kwas)
February 2026
Sunday 8 February - Penitentiary Service Day in Poland (Prison service was established in 1919 and a Polish prison designated on February 8 (from 2011) pursuant to the Act on the Prison Service of April 9, 2010)
Saturday 14 February - Epilepsy Day in Poland (It was launched on 14th 2009 in the form of an event in Warsaw); Valentine’s Day
March 2026
Saturday 21 March - Truant's Day (Poland, Faroe Islands)
Monday 23 March - Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland)
April 2026
Monday 6 April - ABW Day in Poland (Polish counter-intelligence agency's - ABW - holiday, celebrated since 2004); Dyngus Day (It is very popular in Poland, as well as in Polish communities across America)
Saturday 18 April - Coma Patients' Day in Poland (Dzień Pacjenta w Śpiączce)
Sunday 19 April - Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered on April 19); Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
Saturday 25 April - Day of Prison Guards in Poland (the date refers to the events of 1926); International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April)
May 2026
Friday 1 May - Majówka (is a spring festival celebrated throughout Europe); EU Accession Day in Poland; May Crownings or the Virgin Mary Month (Catholic Church tradition); International Workers’ Day (May Day)
Saturday 2 May - Flag Day in Poland (Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej)
Monday 4 May - Steelworker's Day or Metallurgist's Day in Poland (Metal and Mining Workers' Day)
Friday 8 May - Victory Day in Poland and Czech (Narodowy Dzień Zwycięstwa in Poland established in 2015; Liberation Day in Czech Republic)
Saturday 9 May - Europe Day (is the name of two annual observance days, 5 May by the Council of Europe and 9 May by the European Union, which recognize the peace and prosperity within Europe that both have achieved since their formation)
June 2026
Tuesday 23 June - Father's Day in Nicaragua and Poland; St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations (Roman Catholic Church, Europe: - Bonfires of Saint John in Spain; Festa del Poble in Andorra; First night of Festa de São João do Porto; First day of Golowan Festival in Cornwall; Jaaniõhtu in Estonia; Jāņi in Latvia; Kupala Night in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine; Last day of Drăgaica fair in Buzău, Romania)
July 2026
Saturday 11 July - National Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Genocide Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Polish Republic (Narodowy Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Ludobójstwa dokonanego przez ukraińskich nacjonalistów na obywatelach II Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, set on the anniversary of the "bloody sunday" in Volhynia, the culmination of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, established in 2016)
Friday 24 July - Poland Police Day (Święto Policji)
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