{
  "dataset": "holidays-non-working-days",
  "years": [
    2026,
    2027
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-10-16",
  "notes": [
    "DERIVED from the Law on State and Other Holidays by this site; no official list for these years was found. Not an official calendar: verify with the Ministry notice for the year.",
    "One record per holiday per year. 'dates' lists every non-working date (weekday and the rule that makes it non-working), including days added when a holiday falls on a Sunday.",
    "No Saturday-shift rule was found in the law: nothing is shifted for Saturdays.",
    "Dates marked verification 'unverified' rest on a paraphrased rule or an unconfirmed day length: see each record's verify_note."
  ],
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "holiday-new-year-2026",
      "name": "New Year",
      "name_cnr": "Nova godina",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2026-01-01",
        "end": "2026-12-31"
      },
      "type": "other_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2026-01-01",
          "weekday": "Thursday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-01-02",
          "weekday": "Friday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 1 January; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2026-01-01 and 2026-01-02. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (other holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-labour-day-2026",
      "name": "Labour Day",
      "name_cnr": "Praznik rada",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2026-01-01",
        "end": "2026-12-31"
      },
      "type": "other_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2026-05-01",
          "weekday": "Friday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-05-02",
          "weekday": "Saturday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 1 May; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2026-05-01 and 2026-05-02. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (other holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-independence-day-2026",
      "name": "Independence Day",
      "name_cnr": "Dan nezavisnosti",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2026-01-01",
        "end": "2026-12-31"
      },
      "type": "state_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2026-05-21",
          "weekday": "Thursday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-05-22",
          "weekday": "Friday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 21 May; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2026-05-21 and 2026-05-22. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (state holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-statehood-day-2026",
      "name": "Statehood Day",
      "name_cnr": "Dan državnosti",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2026-01-01",
        "end": "2026-12-31"
      },
      "type": "state_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2026-07-13",
          "weekday": "Monday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-14",
          "weekday": "Tuesday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 13 July; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2026-07-13 and 2026-07-14. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (state holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-njegos-day-2026",
      "name": "Njegošev dan (Njegos Day, Montenegrin holiday of culture)",
      "name_cnr": "Njegošev dan, crnogorski praznik kulture",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2026-01-01",
        "end": "2026-12-31"
      },
      "type": "other_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2026-11-13",
          "weekday": "Friday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-11-14",
          "weekday": "Saturday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verify_note": "current two-day length of Njegošev dan not verified against the consolidated law"
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 13 November; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2026-11-13 and 2026-11-14. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 3b (inserted by amendment 145/2021), Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "unverified",
      "verify_note": "Njegošev dan (13 November) became a holiday by amendment 145/2021 (Art. 3b, as quoted by the Ministry in Nov 2022). The second day (14 November) is NOT verified against the consolidated law: ministry notices in 2023 and 2024 treated 13 and 14 November as non-working (dan.co.me, portalzeta.me), but the Ministry's 2022 reading under Art. 3b said one day (portalanalitika.me). The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-new-year-2027",
      "name": "New Year",
      "name_cnr": "Nova godina",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2027-01-01",
        "end": "2027-12-31"
      },
      "type": "other_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2027-01-01",
          "weekday": "Friday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-01-02",
          "weekday": "Saturday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 1 January; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2027-01-01 and 2027-01-02. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (other holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-labour-day-2027",
      "name": "Labour Day",
      "name_cnr": "Praznik rada",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2027-01-01",
        "end": "2027-12-31"
      },
      "type": "other_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2027-05-01",
          "weekday": "Saturday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-05-02",
          "weekday": "Sunday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-05-03",
          "weekday": "Monday",
          "rule": "second_day_sunday_next_day",
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verify_note": "derived from the rule; confirm against the Ministry notice for the year; the rule or day length involved is itself unverified (see the record's verify_note)"
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 1 May; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2027-05-01 and 2027-05-02. Sunday rule applied: second day on a Sunday: the next day is also non-working (Art. 3, paraphrase, unverified).",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (other holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "unverified",
      "verify_note": "The second-day-Sunday rule (the next day is also non-working) is a paraphrase of the law, not a verbatim quote; derived from the rule; confirm against the Ministry notice for the year. The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-independence-day-2027",
      "name": "Independence Day",
      "name_cnr": "Dan nezavisnosti",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2027-01-01",
        "end": "2027-12-31"
      },
      "type": "state_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2027-05-21",
          "weekday": "Friday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-05-22",
          "weekday": "Saturday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 21 May; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2027-05-21 and 2027-05-22. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (state holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-statehood-day-2027",
      "name": "Statehood Day",
      "name_cnr": "Dan državnosti",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2027-01-01",
        "end": "2027-12-31"
      },
      "type": "state_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2027-07-13",
          "weekday": "Tuesday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-07-14",
          "weekday": "Wednesday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 13 July; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2027-07-13 and 2027-07-14. Sunday rule applied: none.",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 1 (state holidays), Art. 2, Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "confirmed",
      "verify_note": "The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    },
    {
      "id": "holiday-njegos-day-2027",
      "name": "Njegošev dan (Njegos Day, Montenegrin holiday of culture)",
      "name_cnr": "Njegošev dan, crnogorski praznik kulture",
      "period": {
        "type": "year",
        "start": "2027-01-01",
        "end": "2027-12-31"
      },
      "type": "other_holiday",
      "non_working_for": "everyone",
      "dates": [
        {
          "date": "2027-11-13",
          "weekday": "Saturday",
          "rule": "day_1",
          "verification": "confirmed",
          "verify_note": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-11-14",
          "weekday": "Sunday",
          "rule": "day_2",
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verify_note": "current two-day length of Njegošev dan not verified against the consolidated law"
        },
        {
          "date": "2027-11-15",
          "weekday": "Monday",
          "rule": "second_day_sunday_next_day",
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verify_note": "derived from the rule; confirm against the Ministry notice for the year; the rule or day length involved is itself unverified (see the record's verify_note)"
        }
      ],
      "status": "derived",
      "derivation": "Fixed date 13 November; celebrated two days (the day itself and the next day, Art. 2): 2027-11-13 and 2027-11-14. Sunday rule applied: second day on a Sunday: the next day is also non-working (Art. 3, paraphrase, unverified).",
      "legal_basis": "Law on State and Other Holidays (Zakon o državnim i drugim praznicima), Official Gazette of Montenegro 27/2007, 36/2013, 145/2021, 3/2023, 30/2023, Art. 3b (inserted by amendment 145/2021), Art. 3",
      "legal_basis_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "verification": "unverified",
      "verify_note": "The second-day-Sunday rule (the next day is also non-working) is a paraphrase of the law, not a verbatim quote; derived from the rule; confirm against the Ministry notice for the year. Njegošev dan (13 November) became a holiday by amendment 145/2021 (Art. 3b, as quoted by the Ministry in Nov 2022). The second day (14 November) is NOT verified against the consolidated law: ministry notices in 2023 and 2024 treated 13 and 14 November as non-working (dan.co.me, portalzeta.me), but the Ministry's 2022 reading under Art. 3b said one day (portalanalitika.me). The law text read is the paragraf.me version frozen at 31 Mar 2021; amendments 145/2021, 3/2023 and 30/2023 were not read against a consolidated text.",
      "source": "Official Gazette of Montenegro (law texts as cited)",
      "source_url": "https://www.paragraf.me/propisi-crnegore/zakon-o-drzavnim-i-drugim-praznicima.html",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16",
      "citation_note": "Derived by montenegrofacts.org from the cited laws; not an official calendar; verify with the Ministry notice for the year."
    }
  ]
}