Public holidays · 2024
Liberation Day falls on Sunday, 5 May 2024 in Netherlands in 2024.
An optional holiday: employees may choose to take it, depending on the employer or region.
In 2024 it falls on a Sunday, a weekend day; check whether a substitute day is given.
Fixed date: it is on the same day of the year every year (5 May).
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
Liberation Day is used for different anniversaries. Italy marks it on 25 April, the date in 1945 on which the Committee of National Liberation for Upper Italy called a general insurrection, which led to the end of German occupation and of the fascist regime in the north. The Netherlands celebrates on 5 May, the day in 1945 when the German capitulation in the Netherlands was agreed at Wageningen, and the day is marked by festivals of freedom across the country. In Italy the day is among the most solemn and also the most contested, since political parties sometimes disagree about its meaning.
On Jersey and Guernsey, Liberation Day is 9 May, the day in 1945 when German forces surrendered the Channel Islands after five years of occupation. Bulgaria marks Liberation Day on 3 March, the anniversary of the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, which ended the Russo-Turkish war and set up an autonomous Bulgaria after nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule. Albania celebrates on 29 November, the date in 1944 when the country was cleared of German forces. The Second World War links most of these days, but Bulgaria's concerns a much older struggle.
Everywhere in Netherlands.
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An optional holiday: employees may choose to take it, depending on the employer or region.
Sunday, 5 May 2024.