Official holidays in 2021

Official holidays in 2021 and end-of-year closure 2021/2022

Application of Articles R II 4.38 and R II 4.39 of the Staff Regulations

Official holidays in 2021 (in addition to the special leave during the annual closure):

Date   Occasion
Friday 1 January New Year
Friday 2 April Good Friday
Monday 5 April Easter Monday
Thursday 13 May Ascension day
Friday 14 May Compensation granted for 1st May
Monday 24 May Whit Monday
Thursday 9 September Jeûne genevois
Friday 24 December Christmas Eve
Monday 27 December Compensation granted for 25th December, Christmas
Friday 31 December New Year’s Eve

Annual closure of the site of the Organization during the Christmas holidays
The Laboratory will be closed from Wednesday 22 December 2021 to Tuesday 4 January 2022 inclusive (without deduction of annual leave).
The first working day in the New Year will be Wednesday 5 January 2022.

To add official holidays to your CERN Exchange calendar, follow these instructions. A printable version of the 2021 CERN Calendar is available here.

CERN official holidays for 2022 will be announced in the Bulletin in December 2021. By subscribing to the official holidays Exchange calendar you can access a provisional calendar of holidays for 2022 which is subject to change and is provided for information purposes only.

School holidays in host states