Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) – Denmark

In Denmark it's a public holiday, so schools, government offices and most businesses close.

When is it? Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) falls on 26 days after Easter Sunday. It's calculated from Easter Sunday, which moves with the lunar calendar, so the date can shift by several weeks from one year to the next.

Which weekday does it land on? Across the no years in the table, Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) lands . None of those years put it next to a weekend, so it doesn't make a long weekend on its own. You can open the printable calendar for any year in the table and see the date in context.

Putting it in your own calendar. You don't need to. Every calendar on this site already shows Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) for whichever country you've selected. What's worth adding is everything around it: the travel, the cover arrangements, who's visiting when. Open the month, click the days and type. Keep a free account and the notes stay with you between devices, and you can send someone a read-only link so you're both working from the same dates.

Every date here is worked out from the official rule rather than copied off a list, so the later years are as reliable as this one. If a date looks wrong for your region, please say so. Regional holiday rules do change, and we'd rather fix the rule than leave it.

Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) dates 2026–2036