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Public holidays in Denmark

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
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Public holidays in Denmark are the holidays recognised in law in Denmark. The Danish closure law, or Lukkeloven, requires larger retail stores to be closed on all public holidays, as well as Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve after 15:00, but those three additional days are not considered public holidays, as non-retail employees do not get a day off.

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This entry incorporates text from “Public holidays in Denmark” 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.