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Public holidays in Norway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2398229 ↗
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Public holidays in Norway are regulated by the Norwegian Annual Holiday Act, which was amended in 2014 to include workers employed in the mining and fishing industries, as well as all public and private sectors.

Besides, 24 December is commonly observed as Christmas Eve, 31 December is commonly observed as New Year's Eve. On these dates, private sectors always take half-day off to their employees after noon.

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This entry incorporates text from “Public holidays in Norway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.