About HolidayGrid

What this site is

HolidayGrid lists national public holidays by country and year. Every country page shows each holiday with its exact date and the weekday it falls on, so you can spot long weekends, plan travel and schedule work across borders without digging through government sites. There are no accounts, no paywalls and no sign up.

Where the data comes from

Holiday dates are generated from the open source date-holidays dataset, a well maintained community project that encodes each country's holiday rules, including movable dates tied to weekdays or religious calendars. Nothing is typed in by hand: each date is computed from that country's own rule for the year in question, which is what keeps Easter-linked, weekday-based and lunar holidays correct instead of drifting. The year calendars list national public holidays only, so they stay comparable from one country to the next, and each country hub adds a separate table of the holidays observed in certain regions only.

Where we correct it

That dataset is a good general source but it is wrong or incomplete for a number of countries: it misses the UK Summer bank holiday entirely, it does not have Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and it lists Easter Sunday as a public holiday in several countries whose law does not. So HolidayGrid runs a correction layer on top of it. There are currently 35 corrections across 15 countries, and every one of them is published on the relevant country page with the law or official publication it was checked against, a link to that source, and the date of the check. Added holidays carry a rule in the same grammar as the rest of the dataset, so their dates are computed by the same engine rather than typed in for one year.

Where a correction is needed but cannot be made honestly, it is declared instead of faked. India is the clearest example: eight festivals on the central gazetted list follow Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain lunisolar calendars that the underlying dataset cannot compute, and India's own gazette fixes them one year at a time. They are listed as a known gap on the India page rather than filled in with a guessed date.

How we handle holidays that fall on a weekend

When a public holiday lands on a Saturday or Sunday, many countries grant the day off on a nearby weekday instead. That is one holiday with a moved observance, not two holidays, and counting it twice is the most common way a holiday site ends up with a total higher than the official one. GOV.UK publishes 27 and 28 December 2027, not 25 to 28. The US Office of Personnel Management publishes eleven federal holidays for 2027. We list a moved holiday once, on the day actually taken off, with its calendar date shown beside it, so the totals match.

How far ahead we publish

The calendars cover the previous year, the current year and one year ahead (2025, 2026 and 2027 right now), and the site is rebuilt regularly so the window rolls forward. We deliberately do not publish two years ahead, even though competitors do. No holiday authority fixes a calendar that far out: China publishes its arrangement in early November for the following year, Spain re-fixes its calendar by BOE resolution each autumn, Japan's equinox dates are fixed by the national observatory a year ahead, Argentina adds bridge days by annual decree, and every date on the Islamic calendar is confirmed by moon sighting. A second forward year would be a projection presented as a calendar.

Inside the window we track, per country, how far ahead that country's calendar is actually settled and who settles it. Any year past that point is labelled provisional above the table rather than presented as final, and where the underlying dataset carries no date at all for a holiday that year, the holiday is still listed with the date left blank instead of quietly disappearing from the total. Always confirm official dates with a local government source before booking travel or signing contracts.

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Browse the full country list or jump to a popular calendar like United States 2026 or United Kingdom 2026.