Official holidays in Tyrol

This section provides information about holidays and feast days, when (most of) the shops stay closed.

In order that you know when people celebrate in the place where you spend your vacation, we gathered the most important information about official holidays in this section. As above mentioned, in these days most of the shops as well as administrative bodies remain closed. On the other hand a range of events which provide you an insight into life in North and East Tyrol are offered.

2012

January 1, 2012
New Year’s Day

January 6, 2012
Epiphany

April 9, 2012
Easter Monday

May 1, 2012
Labor Day

May 28, 2012
Whitmonday

August 15, 2012
Feast of the Assumption

October 26, 2012
Austrian National Day

November 1, 2012
All Saints

December 8, 2012
Immaculate conception

December 25, 2012
Christmas

December 26, 2012
St. Stephan’s Day

Since 1965, October 26 is the National Day in Austria, in commemoration of October 26 of the year 1955, when Austria decided upon its “voluntary, everlasting neutrality” as part of the constitution - only on that condition the allied forces would withdraw their troops.