Public holidays, long weekends and a leave planner for 240+ countries
Updated October 2026
The Holiday Calendar shows the public holidays of more than 240 countries for any year — India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the UAE, Singapore, Germany and the rest — on a 12-month calendar or as a detailed list. Pick a country and it counts down to the next holiday, tells you how many national holidays there are and how many fall on working days, marks which holidays apply only in some states or regions, and finds every long weekend in the year plus the single leave days that turn a holiday into a 4- or 5-day break. The whole year can be added to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar in one click. Holiday data is fetched live from open holiday databases rather than typed in by hand, so a country's list updates as soon as its sources do.
Holidays come from two open sources. For about 200 countries the calendar uses Nager.Date, an open-source public holiday database that records each holiday's date, English and local name, whether it is nationwide or regional, and its type (public, bank, optional or observance). For countries Nager.Date does not cover — including India, the UAE, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Thailand — it reads Google's public holiday calendars, which mark each entry as a public holiday (sometimes only "in" certain states) or an observance. Both are fetched through Clacify's server and cached for a day. Weekend days and the first day of the week come from your browser's locale data for the chosen country (the Unicode CLDR week data built into modern browsers). A long weekend is any run of three or more consecutive days off that includes a national public holiday; a leave-planner suggestion is a single working day with days off on both sides whose removal creates a break of four days or more. Only nationwide public holidays count toward long weekends, because regional holidays and observances are not days off for everyone.
| Label | Meaning | Usually a day off? |
|---|---|---|
| Public (national) | Gazetted holiday across the whole country | Yes, for government offices, banks and most employers |
| Regional | Holiday only in certain states, provinces or regions | Only if you live or work there |
| Optional | A holiday employees can choose from a list (e.g. restricted holidays in India) | Only if you pick it |
| Observance | A day that is marked or celebrated but not a holiday | No |
| Date may change | Lunar or religious date confirmed only close to the day | Check the official announcement |
Private employers can set their own holiday lists, so always confirm with your employer for leave planning.
Many holidays follow lunar or lunisolar calendars rather than the Gregorian one. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha depend on the sighting of the new moon and can shift by a day; Diwali, Holi and Chinese New Year follow lunisolar calendars and land on different Gregorian dates every year. Governments often confirm these dates only weeks or days in advance, which is why such holidays can be marked "date may change".
Fixed-date holidays — such as 26 January (Republic Day in India), 4 July (Independence Day in the US) or 25 December — never move, but in some countries a holiday falling on a weekend is "observed" on the nearest weekday instead, which the calendar lists as a separate day.
The most efficient leave is a single day that connects a holiday to a weekend. A holiday on a Thursday becomes a four-day break if you take Friday off; a Tuesday holiday does the same with Monday. The leave planner lists every one of these "bridge" days for the year, along with the long weekends that need no leave at all.
Because the planner knows each country's weekend, it works for a Friday–Saturday weekend as well as a Saturday–Sunday one. It counts only nationwide public holidays, so if you live in a state with extra regional holidays you may get even longer breaks than it shows.
"Add to my calendar" downloads an .ics file — the universal calendar format — containing every holiday you are viewing as an all-day event. On a phone, open the file and your calendar app offers to add the events. In Google Calendar on a computer, use Settings → Import & export → Import; in Outlook, open the file or use File → Open & Export → Import/Export. The events are marked as "free" time so they don't block meetings in shared calendars.
India's central government observes a core list of national public holidays (Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti are compulsory everywhere) plus festivals that each state and employer choose from, so the exact number you get off depends on your state and employer. Select India in the Holiday Calendar to see the full list for the year, with national holidays, regional holidays and observances marked separately.
Press 'Add to my calendar'. It downloads a standard .ics file of the holidays you are viewing. Open it on your phone or import it into Google Calendar (Settings, Import & export), Outlook or Apple Calendar, and every holiday appears as an all-day event.
It looks for working days sandwiched between a public holiday and a weekend. Taking just that one day off turns the holiday into a 4- or 5-day break. Long weekends that need no leave at all are listed alongside, so you can plan trips for the whole year in one go.