Bank Holidays (UK, IE, US, DE, FR, NL, Canada, Australia, NZ) + Calendar Feed
When is the next bank holiday? Pick a region and year, see every date with a countdown, and add them all to your calendar in one click.
Most people in a Canadian province are covered by that province's employment-standards list, not the federal one. Ontario, for example, has nine statutory holidays — Civic Holiday, Remembrance Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation are not among them, even though many calendars list them.
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How it works
Choose a region and year. The list is worked out in your browser from the published rules: fixed dates like Christmas, 'first Monday in May' style rules, Easter by the Gregorian computus, and substitute days when a holiday lands on a weekend. One-off holidays such as jubilees, a royal wedding, a coronation and a state funeral are included for the years they happened.
Substitute days: in the UK and Ireland a weekend holiday moves to the next weekday that is not already a holiday, which is why Boxing Day 2026 (a Saturday) is observed on Monday 28 December. US federal holidays move to Friday when they fall on a Saturday and to Monday on a Sunday. Hover a substitute row to see the original date.
England and Wales share one list. Scotland has 2 January and St Andrew's Day, a first-Monday-in-August summer holiday and no Easter Monday; Northern Ireland adds St Patrick's Day and 12 July. Ireland has St Brigid's Day (from 2023) and an October bank holiday. Germany has a nationwide list plus every Bundesland (de-by Bavaria, de-nw NRW, …) with its extras. France lists its eleven jours fériés, and the Netherlands the official feestdagen including Easter and Whit Sunday, with King's Day moving to Saturday when 27 April is a Sunday. Canada starts from the federal set (including National Day for Truth and Reconciliation) and each province adds Family Day, Civic Holiday, Saint-Jean-Baptiste or Easter Monday as applicable. For a Canadian region a Holiday set menu appears: Federal + extras is that broader calendar; Statutory (employment standards) is the paid-holiday list that applies to most workers there (nine days in Ontario, eight in Quebec, six in Nova Scotia). Australia lists the national days plus every state and territory (King's Birthday timing, Labour Day, Melbourne Cup, Canberra Day, Anzac additional Mondays). New Zealand includes Waitangi Day, mondayised Anzac Day and Matariki (gazetted through 2052). Germany and France have no substitute days, so a weekend holiday is simply lost; Canada, Australia and New Zealand move or add a weekday instead.
Add to your calendar subscribes to a live iCalendar feed covering last year to two years ahead, so it rolls forward by itself every January. Google, Apple and Outlook fetch it from their own servers. Prefer a file? Download a single year as .ics.
Plain-words guides: how many working days in the UK, add bank holidays to Outlook / Google / Apple, why Boxing Day moves (substitute days), Ontario public holidays 2026, is Civic Holiday statutory in Ontario?, Family Day by province. Need it in code? Anvil's free bank holidays API returns the same list as JSON, and /v1/workdays counts business days between dates. To measure a gap between two dates, use the date difference calculator; to count the sleeps, weekdays and weekend days until one, use the countdown.
Questions
When is the next bank holiday?
The line at the top of the page shows the next one for the region you picked, counting from today on your device.
How many bank holidays are there in England?
Usually eight: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the early May and spring bank holidays, the summer bank holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Scotland and Northern Ireland have nine and ten.
Why is a holiday on a different day this year?
When it falls on a Saturday or Sunday the official 'substitute day' is the next free weekday (UK and Ireland) or the nearest weekday (US federal).
How do I add UK bank holidays to Google Calendar?
Press Google Calendar on this page, or in Google Calendar choose Other calendars, +, From URL and paste the feed URL. It updates on its own.
Does Germany include state holidays?
Yes. Pick Germany (nationwide) for the nine shared Feiertage, or a specific state such as Bavaria or North Rhine-Westphalia to add that state's extras (Epiphany, Corpus Christi, Reformation Day, and so on).
Does it cover Canada, Australia and New Zealand?
Yes. Canada federal plus every province and territory, Australia national plus every state and territory, and New Zealand including Matariki. Same calendar subscribe links and JSON API.
Is Civic Holiday a statutory holiday in Ontario?
No. Ontario ESA lists nine public holidays, and Civic Holiday is not one of them, nor are Remembrance Day or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Choose Statutory (employment standards) in the Holiday set menu to see that list. A longer explainer is at <a href="/guides/civic-holiday-ontario">Civic Holiday in Ontario</a>; the nine-day 2026 list is at <a href="/guides/ontario-public-holidays-2026">Ontario public holidays 2026</a>.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The list is calculated in your browser. Only if you subscribe does your calendar app fetch the feed, from its own servers.