2024 in Austria

Events in the year 2024 in Austria.

Incumbents

 * President: Alexander Van der Bellen
 * Chancellor: Karl Nehammer

Governors

 * Burgenland: Hans Peter Doskozil
 * Carinthia: Peter Kaiser
 * Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner
 * Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr.
 * Styria: Christopher Drexler
 * Tyrol: Anton Mattle
 * Upper Austria: Thomas Stelzer
 * Vienna: Michael Ludwig
 * Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner

Events

 * January 1 – A person is killed and 21 more are injured during a fire at a bar in Graz, during a New Year's party.
 * February 15–18 – 2024 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup
 * February 23 – Three women are killed during a mass stabbing at a brothel in Vienna. A 27-year-old male suspect is arrested.
 * March 29 – Egisto Ott, a former officer of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism, is arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia.
 * April 11 – Three Dutch skiers are killed in an avalanche near Sölden.
 * April 21–27 – 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I A at Klagenfurt.
 * June 9 – 2024 European Parliament election: The Freedom Party of Austria emerges as the largest party in the Austrian contingent for the European Parliament.

Scheduled

 * September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election
 * 2024 Styrian state election
 * 2024 Vorarlberg state election
 * November 28 to December 15 – 2024 European Women's Handball Championship

Holidays
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 * January 1 – New Year's Day
 * January 6 – Epiphany
 * March 28 – Maundy Thursday
 * March 29 – Good Friday
 * April 1 – Easter Monday
 * May 1 – International Workers' Day
 * May 20 – Whit Monday
 * May 30 – Corpus Christi
 * August 15 – Assumption Day
 * October 26 – National Day of Austria
 * November 1 – All Saints' Day
 * December 8 – Immaculate Conception
 * December 25 – Christmas Day
 * December 26 – Saint Stephen's Day

Art and entertainment

 * List of 2024 box office number-one films in Austria
 * List of Austrian films of 2024
 * List of Austrian European Film Award winners and nominees
 * List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

January

 * January 5 – Helena Adler, 40, writer and visual artist, after long illness, (b. 1983)
 * January 14:
 * Elisabeth Trissenaar, 79, actress (Angry Harvest, The Stationmaster's Wife, Mario and the Magician), (b. 1944)
 * Lutz Lischka, 79, Olympic judoka (1972), (b. 1944)
 * January 18 – Heinz Tesar, 84, architect, (b. 1939)

February

 * February 10 – Günter Brus, 85, artist, (b. 1938)
 * February 12 – Karl-Werner Rüsch, 86, civil engineer and politician, (b. 1937)

June

 * June 3 – Brigitte Bierlein, 74, Chancellor of Austria (2019-2020) and President of the Constitutional Court (2018-2019), (b. 1949)