Business Days in February 2026 for Ireland

public holidays in February 2026

Ireland February deadlines

VAT3 returns for January monthly filers are due February 19 (paper) or February 23 (ROS). The Central Statistics Office releases preliminary Q4 GDP and Modified Domestic Demand estimates. The Central Bank of Ireland publishes its first quarterly bulletin of the year. PAYE for January pay periods is reported in real time through Revenue's PAYE Modernisation system. Local Property Tax annual returns for liable owners are due in the first half of the month.

Day-of-Week Distribution

The count of each weekday in February 2026. Useful for shift scheduling, weekly recurring billing, and any rota that depends on a specific day of the week landing in-month.

Ireland reporting cycles and business-day rules

Irish business-day cycles align with Revenue's VAT3 bimonthly cutoffs (paper on the 19th, ROS extended to the 23rd) and PAYE monthly remittance on the 14th of the following month for most employers, with the PAYE Modernisation system reporting in real time on each pay event. The Central Bank of Ireland operates TARGET2-IE for euro wholesale settlement on TARGET2 business days, which exclude bank holidays. Form CT1 corporation tax is due nine months after the company year-end. The European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2012 set 8% above the ECB main refinancing rate as the statutory late-payment interest rate, payable from day 31 after invoice for B2B transactions.

February 2026 working days compared by country

Working-day counts vary across countries because each country observes its own public holidays. The table below puts Ireland alongside the other ten supported holiday calendars for February 2026.

How February 2026 compares year over year

February 2025 also had 19 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year. On the surrounding months, January 2026 has 21 working days and March 2026 has 21. Looking forward, February 2027 has 19 working days under the same Irish public holiday calendar.

Using this calculator in Ireland

A Dublin treasury operator at an international tech HQ uses the 19-day February 2026 count to align SEPA Credit Transfer cycles with Central Bank of Ireland TARGET2-IE clearing and prompt-pay windows under the European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2012. A Cork law-firm cashier uses business-day math to track Workplace Relations Commission complaint windows under the Workplace Relations Act 2015. A Galway SaaS controller uses the count to align Revenue VAT3 bimonthly returns and ROS Form CT1 nine-month corporation-tax filings against month-end cutoffs.