Every public holiday, long weekend and bridge day we track — for 214 countries, verified against official government sources and updated whenever a government changes a date.
Japan Public Holidays 2026
18 days off across 16 national holidays — including Golden Week (29 Apr – 6 May) and a rare five-day Silver Week (19 – 23 Sep).
United States Public Holidays 2026
11 federal holidays — banks, post offices and the stock market close, but most private employers don’t. Five long weekends.
UK Bank Holidays 2026
England & Wales get 8, Scotland 9, Northern Ireland 10 — the devolved difference catches visitors out every year.
Germany Public Holidays 2026
9 nationwide — but the real story is Ascension on Thursday 14 May, the single best bridge day of the German year.
France Public Holidays 2026
11 jours fériés with no regional variation at all — the most predictable calendar in Europe. Bastille Day lands on a Tuesday.
Spain Public Holidays 2026
10 national holidays plus regional ones. The puente de diciembre (5–8 Dec) is the one Spaniards plan their year around.
Italy Public Holidays 2026
12 national holidays and two Tuesday bridges — 2 June and 8 December. Ferragosto falls on a Saturday, which Italians will tell you is a waste.
Australia Public Holidays 2026
7 nationwide, but each state adds its own. Anzac Day falls on a Saturday — ACT, NSW and WA get a Monday substitute.
Canada Public Holidays 2026
12 federal statutory holidays. Thanksgiving sits on Monday 12 October — three weeks earlier than its American namesake.
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- 2026 public holidays around the world — every country we track, grouped by region
- Long weekends & bridge days — the dates that quietly turn into a break
- Long-Weekend Finder — put in your leave allowance, get back every window you can build
What makes our holiday data different
Substitute days, in-lieu rules and religious calendars are where most holiday sites get it wrong. A public holiday that falls on a Sunday usually moves — but not always, and not the same way in every country. Japan adds a substitute day; the UK rolls it to the next weekday; some US states observe nothing at all.
So we check every entry against the issuing authority — the government gazette, the labour ministry, the official calendar — and we stamp the date we last reviewed it. Where a holiday is observed on a different day to the one it falls on, we say so explicitly rather than quietly picking one.
If a date looks wrong, tell us. We fix it and note the correction.