Working Hours and National Holidays  

    
WORKING HOURS  

Banks and post offices:
- weekdays 08.00-19.00
- Saturdays 08.00-15.00
- Sundays, only 24-hour duty branches

Food stores:
- weekdays 06.30-20.00 (in some cases up to 21.00)
- Saturdays 06.30-18.00 (in some cases up to 21.00)
- Sundays closed (in some cases 07.00-13.00)

Markets are open every day 06.00-17.00

Shops in shopping malls are open 09.00-20.00

Department stores:
- weekdays from 08.00-20.00
- Saturdays 08.00-15.00
- Sundays closed

Shops in Kneza Mihailova street are also open on Sundays.

After-hours shops are open Sundays 07.00-11.00

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NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Public non-working holidays:
1st and 2nd January - New Year
7th January - first day of Orthodox Christmas
15th February ('Sretenje' - Presentation of Jesus) - National Day
1st and 2nd May - Worker's Day
Orthodox Easter - from Good Friday to the second day after Easter Sunday

On public holidays only after-hours shops and offices are open.
All citizens are entitled to non-working holidays for their own religious holidays, depending on their faith.

The Serbian Orthodox Church calculates its Christian religious holidays according to the old, Julian calendar, which differs from the Gregorian calendar by plus 14 days.

Working holidays:
27th January (Saint Sava) - Day of Spirituality
9th May - Victory Day
28th June - St. Vitus' Day ('Vidovdan')

City of Belgrade holidays:
16-19 th April - Days of Belgrade
40 days after Easter - Ascension ('Spasovdan'), City Saints Day