Official holidays in 2022

Official holidays in 2022 and end-of-year closure 2022/2023

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

Official holidays in 2022 (in addition to the special leave during the annual closure):

Date   Occasion
Monday 3 January Compensation granted for 1st January, New Year
Friday 15 April Good Friday
Monday 18 April Easter Monday
Thursday 26 May Ascension day
Friday 27 May Compensation granted for 1st May
Monday 6 June Whit Monday
Thursday 8 September Jeûne genevois
Thursday 22 December Compensation granted for 24th December, Christmas Eve
Friday 23 December Compensation granted for 25th December, Christmas
Friday 30 December Compensation granted for 31st December, New Year’s Eve

Annual closure of the site of the Organization during the Christmas holidays
The Laboratory will be closed from Thursday 22 December 2022 to Wednesday 4 January 2023 inclusive (without deduction of annual leave).
The first working day in the New Year will be Thursday 5 January 2023.

To add official holidays to your CERN Exchange calendar, follow these instructions. A printable version of the 2022 CERN Calendar is available here.

CERN official holidays for 2023 will be announced in the Bulletin in December 2022. By subscribing to the official holidays Exchange calendar you can access a provisional calendar of holidays for 2023 which is subject to change and is provided for information purposes only.

School holidays in host states