Hunting Season 2024 – 2025
Wild board hunts may be allowed later during the year and we will post notifications of planned actions as soon as we receive the information.
Each year during the winter hunting season, avoid walking in the woodlands, wilds and fields on Sundays and Wednesdays, also some Saturdays (see below for the 2024-25 programme). Officially the hunts last from 07:00 to 14:00 on hunting days.
Much of Hvar is hunting ground during the season, as there are hunting groups in most of the island’s settlements. Each hunting group is assigned a hunting area around their location.
In accordance with the group’s Statute, the ‘Hvar’ Hunting Association defined the official hunting dates at a meeting held on May 26th 2024.
Sunday is the main hunting day throughout the season, plus some Saturdays and Wednesdays.
Hunts last from 7 am to 2 pm on the following dates:
- Fallow deer – 16/09/2024 – 15/02/2025
- Roe deer (male) 16/04/2024 – 30/09/2024
- Roe deer (female) – 01/09/2024 – 31/01/2025
- Woodcock – 01/10/2024 – 28/02/2025 – 3 birds per hunting day
- Pigeon – 01/10/2024 – 31/01/2025 – 3 birds per hunting day
- Edible dormouse – 01/10/2024 – 30/11/2024
- Quail – 21/08/2024 – 30/11/2024 – 10 birds per hunting day
- Rabbit / Pheasant – 20/10/2024 – 15/01/2025 (Wednesdays from 20/11/2024)
Rabbit / Pheasant hunting days: 20/10, 27/10, 03/11, 10/11, 17/11, 20/11, 24/11, 27/11,01/12, 04/12, 08/12, 11/12, 15/12, 18/12, 22/12, 26/12, 29/12/2024, 01/01, 05/01, 08/01, 12/01 & 15/01/2025
- Wild Boar – 22/9/2024 – 01/02/2025
Wild Boar hunting day is Sunday until 13/10/2024, Saturday from 19/10/2024. Later dates may be added if it is deemed necessary because of damage to crops, mainly to the vineyards.
