Despite the fact that the work week has not yet begun, many are already trying to look at the calendar to find out when the weekends (especially three-day ones) will be in the new year 2024.
Total in 2024 4 three-day days, all of which fall on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The biggest holiday of Orthodoxy, Easter, will be celebrated on May 5th. Detailed dates of holidays and, accordingly, weekends:
- New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1, 2024
- Epiphany: Saturday, January 6, 2024
- Clean Monday: March 18, 2024
- March 25: Monday, March 25, 2024
- May Day: Wednesday, May 1st.
- Holy Spirit Day: Monday, June 24, 2024
- August 15 “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”: Thursday, August 15, 2024
- October 28: Monday, October 28, 2024
Easter 2024
- Good Friday: May 3, 2024
- Holy Saturday: May 4, 2024
- Easter Sunday: May 5, 2024
- Easter Monday: May 6, 2024
Total in 2024 4 three-day days, all of which fall on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The first three days are on “Clean Monday” (Καθαρά Δευτέρα), the second – on March 25 (25η Μαρτίου), the third – on the Day of the Holy Spirit (Αγίου Πνεύματος) and the fourth – on October 28, the anniversary of the “OHI Day” “(28 Οκτωβρίου, επέτειο του “ΟΧΙ”).
Three-day weekend:
- From March 16 to 18 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday): Clean Monday.
- March 23-25 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday): Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, anniversary of the 1821 Revolution.
- June 22-24 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday): Holy Spirit Day.
- October 26-28 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday): anniversary of “OCI Day”.
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