Public Holidays by Country

Fixed-date national public holidays for 20 countries, sourced from each country's official government calendar as of 2026-07-12. Movable and lunar-calendar holidays (Easter-linked observances, Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, and similar) are deliberately left out of these fixed-date tables and noted separately per country, rather than presented as a static date that would eventually go stale.

Public holidays vary more than most people expect, even within a single country: Germany and Switzerland both set a large share of their holiday calendars at the state or canton level rather than nationally, meaning a date that closes offices in one region can be an ordinary working day in another. The United Arab Emirates and several other countries in the region observe a Friday-Saturday weekend rather than the Saturday-Sunday weekend common elsewhere — worth accounting for on the Business Days Calculator if you're counting working days involving those countries.

Each country page below lists that country's fixed-date public holidays, a note on which observances are movable and excluded from the table, real historical and cultural context specific to that country, and the source and as-of date for the underlying data.

These pages feed directly into the Business Days Calculator and Add Business Days Calculator: selecting a country there pulls from the same fixed-date holiday table shown on that country's page here, so the two stay in agreement rather than maintaining two separately curated holiday lists that could quietly drift apart. If a specific date's business-day exclusion looks wrong, checking the relevant country's page here is the way to verify exactly which holidays were included in that calculation and which movable ones were deliberately left out.

Weekend definition is the other variable worth checking per country before relying on a business-day count: most of the 20 countries covered use the Saturday-Sunday weekend, but several explicitly don't, and each country's own page states its actual weekend convention rather than assuming the global majority default applies everywhere.

The 20 countries here were chosen specifically for the volume of cross-border scheduling searches they generate — major English-, European-, and Asia-Pacific-market economies where an international team, a global business, or someone simply planning international travel most commonly needs to know whether a specific date is a public holiday somewhere. That's a deliberately different set of countries from a globally exhaustive list, and the country pages note explicitly where a national holiday calendar is set in part or fully at a sub-national level (a state, province, or canton) rather than uniformly nationwide, since that distinction genuinely changes whether a given date affects business operations in every part of that country or only some.

Each country's page also distinguishes between a public holiday that closes government offices and banks specifically, versus one that's additionally a general non-working day for most private employers — a real, sometimes overlooked distinction, since not every official public holiday is observed identically across every sector of a given country's economy.