Thessaloniki: As of today, the festive opening hours in stores for Easter

Today, April 25, the festive opening hours of commercial stores begin, while on Sunday, April 28, the stores will be open. The hours proposed by the trade associations are continuous, from 9 am to 9 pm for today and tomorrow and until 5 pm on Saturday, while for Sunday April 28 they propose that small shops operate from 11 am until 4 in the afternoon.

For its part, the Business and Retail Association of Greece proposes to its members, i.e. large stores, department stores and chain stores, to operate from 11 am to 8 pm on Sunday.

As far as the opening hours of Holy Week are concerned, all shops will be open continuously from 9 am to 9 pm from Holy Monday to Holy Thursday, while for Good Friday small shops are recommended by trade associations to operate from 1 in the afternoon until 7 in the evening while SELPE suggests to its members to operate from 1 in the afternoon until 9 in the evening. For Holy Saturday, SELPE suggests opening the shops from 9 am to 9 pm, while the trade associations suggest opening hours from 9 am to 3 pm.

On Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the shops will be closed.

On Tuesday they will be closed due to the postponement of the May Day celebration.

The opening hours in Thessaloniki

According to the announcement of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce, on Good Friday the shops will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., while on Holy Saturday they will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. In addition, by decision of the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Domnas Michailidou, the mandatory holiday of May 1, 2024 is postponed to Tuesday, May 7, 2024, due to the fact that it coincides with Holy Wednesday, so the shops will be closed for three consecutive days, Sunday with Tuesday.

See the schedule in detail in the table below:

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