All official holidays in Estonia are established by acts of Parliament.
Public holidays The following are holidays that mean days off: Date English NameEstonian NameRemarks 1 January New Year's Day uusaasta 24 February Independence Day iseseisvuspäev National Day – celebrates the Declaration of Independence in 1918. Moveable Friday Good Friday suur reede Moveable Sunday Easter Sunday ülestõusmispühade 1. püha Commonly known as lihavõtted or munadepühad. 1 May Spring Day kevadpüha Moveable Sunday Whit Sunday nelipühade 1. püha 23 June Victory Day Võidupüha Celebrates the victory in the Battle of Võnnu during the Estonian War of Independence. 24 June Saint John's Day Jaanipäev Jaaniõhtu is celebrated in the night before Midsummer Day. 20 August Independence Restoration Day taasiseseisvumispäev Celebrates Estonia's Restoration of Independence in 1991. 24 December Christmas Eve jõululaupäev 25 December Christmas Day esimene jõulupüha 26 December Second Day of Christmas teine jõulupüha
National holidays The following holidays do not give a day off: DateEnglish NameEstonian NameRemarks 6 January Epiphany kolmekuningapäev 2 February Anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty Tartu rahulepingu aastapäev Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence 14 March Native Language Day emakeelepäev Kristjan Jaak Peterson Moveable Sunday Mother's Day emadepäev Held on the second Sunday of May. 4 June Flag Day Eesti lipu päev Date when the Flag of Estonia was first consecrated in 1884. 14 June Day of Mourning and Commemoration leinapäev Commemorating the victims of Soviet deportations in 1941 and 1949. 23 August European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism kommunismi ja natsismi ohvrite mälestuspäev Day when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939. Moveable Sunday Grandparents' Day vanavanemate päev Held on the second Sunday of September. 22 September Resistance Fighting Day vastupanuvõitluse päev Otto Tief's attempt to restore Estonian independence in 1944 1 OctoberLocal Government Dayomavalitsuspäev 2 November All Souls' Day hingedepäev Moveable Sunday Father's Day isadepäev Held on the second Sunday of November. 16 November Day of Declaration of Sovereignty taassünni päev Estonian Declaration of Sovereignty, which was issued in 1988.
References Public and National Holidays Act Estonian Holidays in 2014 List of holidays celebrated in the European Union in 2006 was used for translation: in Estonian in English