Free Public Holidays Calendar

Key features

• 138 countries: Public, religious, civic and cultural dates in one list per country. That's about 18 rows for an average country and 27 for the United States.
• Three rolling years: Current year plus the next two. The window auto-advances at midnight on January 1st, with nothing for you to update.
• Countdown that runs to the second: Far-off holidays show the number of days left. Under 24 hours out the cell switches to a live HH:MM:SS clock, and on the day itself it just says Today.
• Weekday on every row: Each date shows the day of the week so you can spot long weekends and plan trips accordingly.
• Searchable country picker: Type a few letters in the dropdown search field to jump straight to a country instead of scrolling through 138 options.
• Religious and movable feasts handled: Catholic Easter, Orthodox Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Vesak and many more carry the correct date for each year.
• Saved locally: Your last country and year selection are remembered in localStorage, so the same view is waiting for you next time.
• Dated per country, not globally: Where a holiday splits across borders, the table splits with it. Easter 2026 is 5 April in Italy and 12 April in Greece, and each country's list carries its own date.
• Dark, light & 6 color themes: A 27-row table is a lot easier on the eyes in dark mode at night.

How to use the holidays calendar

Step 1: Pick a country

Click the country field at the top of the card. A scrollable list of 138 countries appears with a small search box at the top. Either scroll or type a few letters and the list filters as you go. Click a row to pick it, or stay on the keyboard: arrow keys move through the list, Enter selects, Escape closes it. The table refreshes the moment you choose.

Step 2: Pick a year

Three year tabs sit just above the table. The first is always the current year, the next two are upcoming. Click a tab to switch the table to that year, and the tabs roll themselves forward every January so you never have to come back and reset anything.

Step 3: Read the table

Each row shows three things: the date with the weekday stacked underneath it, the holiday name in plain English, and the time left. Holidays that have already passed in the active year are grayed out and labeled "Passed", though their dates stay visible so the table still works as a reference.

How the dates are calculated

Most holidays are simple: New Year's Day is January 1st, Christmas Day is December 25th. But a lot of the world's holidays are movable: they shift every year because they're tied to lunar or religious calendars. We check those against the standard methods below and ship the results as a fixed table, so nothing is being guessed at in your browser:

• Catholic Easter: Checked against the standard Gauss algorithm from Computus, which gives the Gregorian date of Easter Sunday for any year. Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Pentecost and Corpus Christi are all derived as offsets from that single date.
• Orthodox Easter: Checked against the Julian-calendar version of Computus, converted to Gregorian (currently +13 days). Used for Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt's Sham El-Nessim and several other countries.
• Islamic holidays: Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Ashura, Islamic New Year and the Prophet's Birthday come from mapping their Hijri-calendar dates (e.g. 1 Shawwal for Eid al-Fitr) to Gregorian using astronomical conversion. Real-world dates may shift by ±1 day depending on local moon-sighting.
• Lunar New Year: Chinese New Year and Vietnamese Tết follow the Chinese lunar calendar, which puts them anywhere between 26 January and 17 February depending on the year.
• Hindu and Buddhist feasts: Diwali, Holi, Vesak, Ganesh Chaturthi and many others come from Indian lunisolar calendars, and they are not one shared date. In 2026 Vesak falls on 1 May in India, 10 May in Taiwan, 24 May in South Korea and 31 May in Singapore, and each country gets its own rule.
• Floating weekday rules: US Thanksgiving (4th Thursday of November), UK Spring Bank Holiday (last Monday of May), Japan's Coming of Age Day (2nd Monday of January) and dozens of others follow weekday-in-month rules.

When a holidays calendar is useful

Travel planning

Before booking flights, hotels or museum tickets, check the destination's holidays calendar. A "great deal" on a hotel might turn out to be the day half the city is closed for a public holiday, or, on the flip side, the day everything is festive and worth witnessing.

Remote and international teams

If your team is spread across multiple countries, a quick scan of each country's holidays prevents the classic "why isn't anyone replying?" moment. Pair this with our world clock and you have a full picture of who's working, who's asleep and who's on a national holiday.

Long weekends and trip planning

The weekday under each date is the secret weapon. A holiday that lands on a Thursday or Tuesday almost always becomes a four-day weekend in practice: take one day of vacation, get four days off. Scanning the table for those patterns is the fastest way to plan a year of getaways.

School and academic calendars

Parents juggling school holidays across two countries, expat families and divorced parents especially, can line up both calendars and find the weeks that actually overlap.

HR and payroll

Small companies that don't have a payroll provider's holiday calendar baked in can use this page to set leave policies and overtime pay schedules.

Marketing campaigns and editorial calendars

Many marketing moments hinge on holidays: Black Friday, Lunar New Year, Eid al-Fitr, Diwali, Mother's Day. Knowing the exact date in each market several months ahead is the foundation of any reasonable content calendar.

Different kinds of holidays explained

• Public holiday: A day on which government offices, banks and most businesses are legally allowed (or required) to close. Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Independence Day.
• Bank holiday: A UK/Ireland term for a public holiday, originally tied to days when banks would not clear checks. Practically synonymous with "public holiday" in those countries.
• Religious holiday: Tied to a religious calendar. Easter, Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, Vesak. Some are also public holidays; others are observed culturally without official closure.
• Civic / national holiday: Commemorates an event in the country's history. Independence Day, Bastille Day, Republic Day.
• Observance: A day with cultural or social significance but no official day off. Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, Black Friday in the US.
• Movable feast: A holiday whose date changes every year. Most religious feasts and weekday-anchored holidays fall into this group.

We put all of these in one list per country, so you don't have to know in advance whether a date is official or just widely observed.

Tips & tricks

• Run your eye down the weekday line under each date. Thursdays and Tuesdays are the ones worth circling.
• Open two tabs, one country each, and flip between them. It's the fastest way to find the days a cross-border team is actually all online.
• Planning a wedding or a big anniversary? Open the last year tab and check what it collides with before you send a single invitation.
• Bookmark the page. Your country and year come back with it, so the bookmark drops you straight onto the right table.
• Plenty of countries have an Independence Day, and they fall on different dates for different reasons. Match the country first, then read the name.

Frequently asked questions