2026 in Austria

• President: Alexander Van der Bellen
• Chancellor: Christian Stocker

• 11 January – A skier is killed in an avalanche in Weerberg, Tyrol.^[1]
• 13 January – A Czech skier is killed in an avalanche in Bad Gastein.^[1]
• 17 January –
  • Four skiers are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche in the Gastein Valley. Another skier later dies in a different avalanche in Bad Hofgastein.^[2]
  • Three Czech skiers are killed in an avalanche in Pusterwald.^[1]

• 16 February – A 21-year old suspect in the 2024 Vienna terrorism plot is charged with terrorism-related offences.^[3]
• 20 February –
  • Five people are killed in Linz and Tyrol following adverse conditions caused by a snowstorm.^[4]
  • A hiker accused of murdering his girlfriend by abandoning her on a climbing trip to the Grossglockner in 2025 is convicted of gross negligent manslaughter after the woman dies from hypothermia and is sentenced to a five-month suspended prison term.^[5]

• 2 April – Austria denies U.S. aircraft use of its ‌airspace for military operations against Iran.^[6]
• 19 April – Hipp Holding orders a recall of its baby food products in Austria following the discovery of a tampered product believed to have been deliberately laced with rat poison in Burgenland.^[7]

• 12–16 May – Eurovision Song Contest 2026^[8][9]

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• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 6 January – Epiphany
• 6 April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – International Workers' Day
• 25 May – Whit Monday
• 4 June – Corpus Christi
• 15 August – Assumption Day
• 26 October – National Day of Austria
• 1 November – All Saints' Day
• 8 December – Immaculate Conception
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Saint Stephen's Day

• 3 January – Eva Schloss, 96, Holocaust survivor.^[11]
• 16 April –
  • Alex Manninger, 48, footballer.^[12]
  • Oleg Maisenberg, 80, Ukrainian-born pianist.^[13]