Opening hours for Easter and May Day 2024: Here’s what everything is open for the holidays, and what’s closed exactly when

What it will be like Working time shopping centers, shops and everything else when they are non-working daysduring May Day holidays and Easter holidaysfind out below.

If you need to complete something at the municipal, city or republic counters, just like at banks or post offices, make sure to do it no later than Tuesday, April 30, because after that, the first working day will be next Tuesday, May 7!

What is also certain is that the students are also “free” – their spring vacation starts already this afternoon when they finish their classes, and they return to their desks on Tuesday, May 7th – so they will have 10 days to rest. Also, kindergartens will not be open during both holidays, from May 1 to May 7, so if you have to work, you will be forced to make do with “granny service” or some other option.

Check the hourly rate of a nanny at this link.

Opening hours for May Day and Easter

Working hours of shopping centers

As we learn from Belgrade shopping centers, working hours will be reduced only on May 3, while only Sunday May 5, for Easter, will be closed.

• May 1, 10:00 – 22:00
• May 2, 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m
• May 3 to 18
• May 4, 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m
• May 5 is a non-working day

It is assumed that there will be more visits during the holidays, because people will have more free time.

Store opening hours

Commercial facilities will also be open for a limited time. In order to get all your groceries in time for the upcoming holidays, check when your favorite shopping store will be closed. Most retail chains will not work for Easter, May 5.

How trade chains will work, see this link in more detail.

Opening hours of markets in Belgrade

During the May Day and Easter holidays, the markets will work according to the usual working hoursand will not work on Easter Sunday, May 5, announced the Public Utility Company “Belgrade Market”.

Market opening hours:

• Green markets will be open from 06:00 to 19:00
• “Palilula” market, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m
• OTC Miljakovac-Belgrade Flea Market from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed on Mondays)
• The Krnjača flower market will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m
• Dušanovac market (sales from vehicles) – according to established working hours from 19:00 to 06:00

Garages and parking lots for market users and visitors during the holidays will work according to the established regime:

• Palilula Market: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m
• Zeleni venac market: from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m
• Zemun Market: from 00:00 to 24:00
• Dušanovac market: from 8 am to 7 pm

Working hours of pharmacies in Belgrade

State pharmacies, those in the “Apoteka Beograd” system, will work with a modified regime during official non-working days, depending on the location. The information we received from this institution is that on Saturday, May 4, it will work regularly. As a rule, state pharmacies are closed during all official non-working holidays.

However, on-call pharmacies must work around the clockand in Belgrade these are those at Nemanjina 2, Kralja Milana 9, Glavna 24 (Zemun), Maršala Tolbukhin 30 and Dr. Đorđe Kovačevića 27.

If there are any changes regarding the work of state pharmacies, it will be announced on their website or Instagram account, so it is best to check before heading to one of them.

On-call pharmacies in Belgrade

On-call pharmacies, which normally work from 00:00 to 24:00, are also open during holidays:

• Sveti Sava, Nemanjina 2 (6643-170)
• “May Day”, Kralja Milana 9 (3241-349)
• “Bogdan Vujošević”, Bulevar Marshala Tolbukhina 30 (2601-887)
• “Zemun”, Glavna 34 (2618-582)
• “Uptown”; Dr. Đorđa Kovačevića 27, Lazarevac (8129-611)

When they private pharmacies in questionthere is a big question, because each of them is organized in its own way.

Parking service: When parking is free

The Parking Service has not yet issued an official statement on which days parking will be free, however, what we can conclude based on past experience is that parking will not be charged during public holidays.

Therefore, count on the fact that you will certainly not have to pay for parking in zoned areas of the city on May 1, 2 and 3, but it is not yet certain whether parking will be free on Saturday, May 4. In that case, it would be best to check their website, to be sure if you should pay for the ticket for that day. On Easter, May 5th, parking is certainly free, because it is a Sunday, and there is no charge on Sundays.

Weekly schedule of city transport

On the website of the Secretariat for Public Urban Transport, it has been announced which schedule city, suburban and local lines will operate during the holidays. Starting from May 1st together with May 6th, vehicles will operate in the following mode:

• Wednesday, 01.05.2024. years – timetable for Sunday
• Thursday, 02.05.2024. years – timetable for Sunday
• Friday, 03.05.2024. years – timetable for Sunday
• Saturday, 04.05.2024. years – timetable for Saturday
• Sunday, 05.05.2024. years – timetable for Sunday
• Monday, 06.05.2024. years – timetable for Sunday

In accordance with these changes city ​​transport expect fewer vehicles on the streets, but also less crowds.

Taxi services more expensive during holidays

If if you decide to take a taxi, you will pay more for the ride. Namely, the tariff will be holiday, i.e. – weekly, i.e. collecting.

This means that you will have to shell out more money from your pocket if you sit in a taxi during the period from Tuesday at 10 p.m. (when the night, more expensive tariff starts), until the following Tuesday at 6 a.m..

These are the rates:

• The start in all three tariffs costs 270 dinars
• driving per kilometer costs 96 dinars in the first (working days and Saturdays from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.)
• 125 in the second (10 p.m.-6 a.m., holidays and Sundays)
• 192 dinars in the third tariff (outside the city area)
• Taxi drivers charge 1,200 dinars for waiting per hour

Post office hours throughout Serbia

On a national holiday – Labor Day, 1. and 2. Mayand during the Easter holidays, from the 3. until 6. May, duty post offices will work – 81 post offices throughout the country. On all holidays, the Belgrade Main Post Office at Takovska 2 and the post office at the border and administrative crossings will work unchanged – non-stop, with the exception of the post office at the Gradina border crossing, which will be open from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The post office at Nikola Tesla Airport will be on duty from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the institution announced.

• From Wednesday to Saturday 1-4. on May 6 and on Monday, May 6, post offices will also be open in all major shopping centers throughout Serbia. On Thursday, May 2, Saturday, May 4 and Monday, May 6, other duty post offices in larger cities will be open.
• On Easter Day, Sunday, May 5, the Belgrade Main Post Office, the post office at Nikola Tesla Airport, and post offices at border and administrative crossings will be on duty.

See the list of on-call post offices with working hours here.

It has been announced that it will be mostly sunny and warm from Monday to Friday next week, see the link for a detailed forecast for the weekend and during the holidays.