What are the public holidays in Monaco for 2022?
Like every year, certain public holidays that fall on a Sunday are made up for on Monday.
With three additional days compared to France, Monaco has 14 public holidays this year, including the catch-ups of Labor Day and Christmas:
- Saturday January 1st : New Year’s Day
- Thursday January 27: Day of the Holy Devote
- Monday April 18: Easter Monday
- Sunday May 1: labor Day
- Monday May 2: labor Day
- Thursday May 26 : Ascension
- Monday June 6: Whit Monday
- Thursday June 16: Celebrates God
- Monday August 15: Assumption
- Tuesday November 1: Toussaint
- Saturday 19 November: Prince’s Day
- Thursday, December 8: Immaculate Conception
- Sunday December 25: Christmas
- Monday December 26: Christmas
What are the differences compared to France?
First of all, the catch-ups. If New Years Day, 1uh May, the Assumption, All Saints’ Day, the Prince’s Day, or Christmas fall on a Sunday, the following Monday becomes a legal holiday. The employee benefits from the same rights, that is to say that this day will be paid if he is unemployed and compensated or compensated if he is worked.
The other major difference concerns the public holidays themselves: if most are common to France, Monaco also has the Saint Devote on January 27, in homage to St. Dévote, the patron saint of the country, killed in the 4th century. century. The Principality also celebrates Corpus Christi every Thursday after Trinity Sunday, sixty days after Easter Sunday. This feast is for the purpose of the Eucharist.
The Prince’s Day, meanwhile, is announced on November 19, in honor of the Holy Prince. Finally, December 8 is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, the date on which, in 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed that the Virgin Mary was conceived free from original sin.
At the same time, France also has public holidays that do not exist in Monaco: the victory of May 8, 1945, the National Day of July 14 and the Armistice of November 11, 1918.