Public Holidays

See official public holidays for any country and year.

This tool sends your query through our server to look up live data. We don't store it, and no files are ever uploaded — though the upstream service answering the lookup sees the query too.

Gives the official public-holiday dates for a country and year, each row showing the local name with the English name beside it where the two differ.

How to use it

1Type a two-letter country code — the field uppercases as you type and stops at two characters.
2Set the year, which starts at 2026, then press Enter or click Search.
3Read the dated list; the count above it tells you how many the country reports for that year.

Example

Input: GB, 2026
Output: "14 holidays found", listing New Year's Day on 1 January through to Boxing Day on 28 December

Boxing Day lands on the 28th because the 26th falls at a weekend and the substitute day is what is published. Regional entries are included and not flagged — 2 January and Saint Andrew's Day are Scotland-only, Saint Patrick's Day is Northern Ireland-only, yet all three sit in the same list as the nationwide ones. Dates arrive as plain YYYY-MM-DD and are rendered with your device's locale and timezone, so a browser set behind UTC shows each row a day early.

What happens to your data

Two short values make up the entire request — the country code and the year — and both are pattern-matched at /api/holidays before any outbound call happens, so a bad code stops at "Provide a 2-letter country code (e.g. US)." and date.nager.at is never contacted. A valid pair is placed straight into the upstream path, the reply is cached for a day, and the list is returned as it came. Nothing is remembered between searches: there is no account, no saved country and no reminder.

Last updated August 2026

You are trying to get a supplier in Germany on a call, or working out whether an invoice sent on Friday clears before a factory closes for a week, and you do not know which days that country takes off. People usually find out the expensive way: a message unanswered for three days, a delivery parked at a depot, a payroll run scheduled into a day the banks are shut.

Settle first which question you are asking, because a holiday list answers only one of them. Whether a date is a public holiday in a country has a clean answer. Whether the person you need is at their desk, or whether a payment will move, does not — banks and exchanges keep their own closing days, firms shut for weeks containing no holiday at all, and shops in many countries trade through days their staff are paid extra to work.

The other thing to settle is scope, because lists mix two kinds of day together. Countries routinely designate holidays that only part of the country observes — Scotland and Northern Ireland differ from England, German holidays vary by Land, Indian ones by state and again between banks and offices — and a flat list gives you nothing to tell those apart from the nationwide ones. Read one as the widest set of days something might be closed, not the days everybody is off.

How it works

Toolvore holds no holiday data of its own. Each search sends two short values — the two-letter code and the four-digit year — to a route on this site, which checks both against a pattern before anything goes further, then asks date.nager.at for that country and year and hands the list back with the dates untouched. The reply is cached for a day, so the same pair looked up twice in one afternoon may not travel again. The weak points are in what never reaches the screen. Each entry arrives carrying a flag for whether it applies nationwide and a list of types, and neither is shown, so a regional day looks exactly like a countrywide one. The rows give weekday, month and day but not the year, which exists only in the field you typed. There is no export and no calendar file, and one country and one year is all a search holds — starting another clears the list you were reading.

Common use cases

Scheduling a call with a supplier or colleague abroad
Checking whether a delivery window crosses a national shutdown
Setting an invoice or payroll cut-off around a closed week
Planning an on-call rota across offices in several countries
Finding long weekends worth bridging with annual leave
Avoiding travel in a country's busiest holiday week

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a public holiday, a bank holiday and a national holiday?＋

Mostly vocabulary. Public holiday is the general term for a day the state marks as non-working. Bank holiday is the British name, from legislation that told banks to close, and in ordinary use the two mean the same thing there — though Christmas Day and Good Friday are common law holidays in England and Wales rather than bank holidays proper. National holiday points at one specific day: a founding, an independence, a unification. Other labels carry no time off at all: an observance or a flag day can sit on a calendar while offices stay open.

Why do public holiday dates move from one year to the next?＋

Three separate reasons. Some holidays are pinned to a weekday rather than a date, so the first Monday in May lands on a different number each year. Some follow the Christian computus: Easter is tied to the ecclesiastical full moon after the March equinox, which drags Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension and Whit Monday across a five-week window with it. Some run on another calendar entirely — the Islamic year is about eleven days shorter than the Gregorian one, so Eid moves steadily earlier, while Chinese New Year and Diwali follow lunisolar reckoning.

What happens when a public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday?＋

It depends on the country, which matters when you are counting working days. Many states grant a substitute day: the United Kingdom moves Christmas Day and Boxing Day to the following Monday and Tuesday when they land at a weekend, and United States federal holidays are observed on the nearest Friday or Monday. Others make no provision, so the day is absorbed by the weekend and that year has one fewer. Published lists usually carry the observed date rather than the nominal one, which is why a December list can show Boxing Day on the 28th.

Do I have to be paid for a public holiday I do not work?＋

That is an employment law question rather than a calendar one, and it turns on country and contract. In the United Kingdom there is no automatic right to take a bank holiday off or to extra pay for working it — the statutory 5.6 weeks of annual leave may include those days, and your contract decides. In the United States, federal holidays bind federal employees while private employers set their own policy. Plenty of other countries mandate a day off, premium pay or a day in lieu. A date on a list settles none of it.

Should I type UK or GB for the United Kingdom?＋

GB. The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the United Kingdom is GB; UK is reserved so nobody else can take it, but it is not the assigned code. The country box takes two letters and stops there, so three-letter codes such as DEU or GBR cannot be entered even by accident, and lower case is converted as you type. Where a code has no entries behind it, the page reports that rather than showing an empty list. Common ones are US, GB, DE, FR, IN, AU, CA, JP and ZA.

Can I use a public holiday list to work out payment or settlement dates?＋

Use it to raise the question, not to answer it. Payment systems keep their own calendars: TARGET2, which settles euro payments, closes on a short fixed list — New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, and 25 and 26 December — matching no single country's holidays. National clearing schemes and card networks each keep another, and a cut-off time can matter more than the date: an instruction accepted late in the afternoon may still be processed the next working day. Treat a holiday as a flag that something might not move, then confirm with whoever moves it.

How far ahead are public holiday dates reliable?＋

Fixed-date and weekday-rule holidays are safe to plan around years out, and Easter-linked ones can be calculated indefinitely. Anything on a lunar calendar is an estimate rather than a fact, since several countries confirm Eid only when the new moon is sighted, which can move the date by a day and put neighbouring countries on different ones. Then come the additions nobody forecasts — an election day, a state funeral, a coronation, a one-off day of mourning or celebration — declared with weeks of notice or less. Re-check before money or travel is committed.

Where do these dates come from, and does my search go anywhere?＋

They are not computed here. The two values you type go to a route on this site, which passes them to date.nager.at, an open holiday API, and returns what came back unchanged — so the accuracy is that project's rather than anything reasoned out here, and an outage there surfaces as a message that the holiday service is unavailable. The outbound request leaves from the server, so the holiday source sees this site rather than your address, and answers are cached for a day, so a repeat of the same country and year may not travel at all.