Sources and image credits — November and December holidays: four European calendars for your trip
Sources
- https://www.belgium.be/fr/emploi/conges_et_interruption_de_carriere/jours_feries
- https://employment.belgium.be/en/themes/international/posting/working-conditions-be-respected-case-posting-belgium/public-holidays?id=38256
- https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2405
- https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/de/themen/bildung_und_ausbildung/schulen/Seite.1100114
- https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays
Image credits
Image credits 1
Christmas lights on Vienna’s Graben, photographed on 3 December 2023.
Photo: Geolina163 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image source
Image credits 2
Christmas lights on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, photographed on 22 November 2024.
Photo: Tangopaso / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-self) · Image source
Euro Magazine · 26 October 2026
Facts and sources
In November and December, familiar holidays appear on several European calendars, but their consequences for a travel day differ. A statutor…
Sunday 1 November is All Saints’ Day. Belgium, France and Austria list it as a statutory public holiday. In France, it falls on a Sunday in…
Wednesday 11 November commemorates the 1918 armistice in France and is also a statutory public holiday in Belgium. Both government calendars…
The differences become clearer in December. Austria lists Tuesday 8 December, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as a statutory holiday…
Friday 25 December appears in all four calendars consulted as Christmas Day. Saturday 26 December follows a different pattern. Austria obser…
Travel planning therefore involves three separate questions: which holiday applies in the country or region, when any substitute day off fal…
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