Working days in Austria in 2025

How working days in Austria are counted in 2025

The 247 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2025, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 14 public holidays that land on a weekday. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not subtracted, because they do not remove a day anyone would have worked; in 2025 that applies to 6 of Austria's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 247 working days works out to roughly 1,976 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.

What counts as a working day in Austria

Austrian civil law uses Werktag, any day except Sunday and a public holiday, with Saturday included. The Arbeitszeitgesetz sets a 40-hour standard week and the Arbeitsruhegesetz mandates an uninterrupted 36-hour weekly rest period normally including Sunday. The Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) sections 222 and 902 roll procedural deadlines falling on a Saturday, Sunday, public holiday or Good Friday to the next working day, the only legal context in which Good Friday is universally treated as non-working. Settlement of euro transactions follows TARGET2; domestic banking observes the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's calendar mirroring the national list.

Austria recognises thirteen public holidays under the Feiertagsruhegesetz 1957 and the Arbeitsruhegesetz. The list is heavily Catholic: Epiphany, Easter Monday, Ascension, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Assumption, All Saints', Immaculate Conception and Saint Stephen's Day join the civic May Day and National Day on 26 October and the universal Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Good Friday is a public holiday only for members of the Protestant Augsburg and Helvetic Confessions, the Old Catholic Church and the Methodist Church by section 7 of the 1957 Act, a unique partial-holiday rule. State Treaty Day on 26 October replaced the older Flag Day in 1965 to commemorate the 1955 declaration of permanent neutrality.

This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Austria carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll runs, billing cycles, SLA windows, and project plans rather than a flat assumption of about 20.6 working days per month. A month with two weekday holidays can have several fewer working days than a clear one, which changes capacity planning and the realistic delivery date for anything scheduled in business days.

To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Austria holiday calendar for 2025. You can subscribe to those dates as an .ics feed so they appear in your own calendar, or use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator to count business days for a specific date range rather than the whole year.

Working-day figures are computed from the public holiday list for Austria (source: Nager.Date and the national references above) combined with a Monday-to-Friday business week. Regional holidays and substitute-day rules vary; confirm against the official calendar for legal or payroll use.