When Public Holidays and Shops Opening Times

Shop opening times

Public holidays in Prague would affect some opening times of the shops and therefore is quite important you are aware of those to avoid any “shopping fever” disappointments. Shops are generally open from Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm. Of course depending of what shops and where. In the center you can expect the shops to be open longer hours and working even on the weekend. Banks and post office would only open during the week so any posting or money dealing should have been done over the week. Most of the restaurants, clubs, bars and pubs will open longer hours and during the weekends as well. Normal business hours for most of the supermarkets are Monday to Friday from 9am to 9pm or even longer. On Saturday will only larger supermarket remain open. Sundays most of the supermarkets stay close, so make sure you do your necessary shopping before then.

Public Holidays

In Czech Republic there are not so many Public Holidays in compare to other countries. During the Public Holidays majority of all the shops remain closed for the whole day. Some pubs and even restaurants will be open mostly in the centre as well as some fast food restaurants and stalls. Bellow is details dates for most Public Holidays in Czech Republic so try to remember them or write them down to avoid shops being closed when you need them. Even on those days you can still find some of the smaller food shops opened called “Vecerka”. Those are night shops which stay open after normal business hours and where food and drinks can be bought.

National Holidays Dates

January 1^st – New Year´s Day

Easter Monday – dates for this change depending the Easter

May 1^st – Labor Day

May 8^th – VE Day

July 5^th – Christianity Day

July 6^th – Death of Jan Hus (Upaleni Jana Husa)

September 28^th – Czech National Day