Public Holidays Checker
Official public holidays for 100+ countries and any year, ready to paste into the business days calculator. 100% free, no signup. Everything runs in your browser.
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Pick a country and a year, and this tool lists every official public holiday with the three things you actually need: its name, its exact date, and the weekday it lands on. It covers the US, UK, Canada, Australia and roughly a hundred other countries, counts how many holidays are still ahead of you this year, and gives you a one-click copy of the dates formatted to paste straight into our business days calculator for deadline math.
Holiday data comes from Nager.Date, a free open API. The only thing that travels over the network is the country code and the year you pick; nothing about you goes anywhere, and no account or API key is involved on either end. If the API is unreachable, the tool says so plainly instead of showing you last session's list.
How to use
- Choose a country from the dropdown. The US, UK, Canada and Australia sit near the top, with around a hundred more available.
- Pick a year. The current year loads by default.
- Read the list. Each row shows the holiday name, its date and the weekday it falls on.
- Check the counter to see how many public holidays remain this year.
- Click the copy button to grab all the dates, formatted and ready for the business days calculator.
- Switch country or year any time to compare, for example UK bank holidays this year against next year.
Why use our public holidays checker?
Showing the weekday is the small feature that earns its keep. A holiday on a Tuesday fragments a week; the same holiday on a Friday builds a long weekend. Every year I plan around which way the big ones fall, and having the weekday printed next to every date saves the constant calendar cross-checking.
The remaining count sounds like a gimmick until you use it. Knowing there are still six public holidays between now and December changes how you schedule a project, chase an invoice or plan office coverage. It is one number, always current, and I check it more often than I expected to.
I want to be honest about scope, because holiday data has sharp edges. The tool shows what a country officially observes at the national level. State, provincial and regional holidays can differ: a day observed in one Australian state may not exist in another, and US states add their own observances on top of the federal list. I would rather tell you that limitation up front than pretend one list covers every local quirk.
The copy button exists because retyping dates is how errors happen. One click gives you every holiday date in a clean format that drops straight into deadline calculations, spreadsheets or a project plan, with zero transcription typos.
And the whole thing stays fast and anonymous. Two values leave your browser, a country code and a year, which is less than most sites learn about you from a single page view. There is no signup, no export paywall and no limit on how many countries or years you check, because gating a list of public holidays behind an account always struck me as faintly ridiculous.
Who is this tool for?
Deadline and contract planning is the big one. If a deliverable is due in fifteen business days, holidays quietly move the real date, and different countries move it differently. Pull the list here, copy the dates, and let the business days calculator do the honest arithmetic. I built this pairing after scheduling an invoice due on a UK bank holiday and learning about payment delays the hard way.
Distributed teams use it to plan meetings and releases. Before you schedule a launch involving colleagues in Toronto and Sydney, check both countries, then line up working hours with our time zone converter so nobody discovers the conflict on the day.
Travelers use it in both directions: find a holiday to build a long weekend around, or spot one to avoid, since museums close and trains fill up. Once you have a candidate weekend, our weather forecast tool tells you whether the destination will cooperate.
Payroll, HR and support teams pull the year's list once and drop it into rotas and coverage calendars. Having the official dates with weekdays in one place beats reconciling three slightly different lists from around the internet, and checking next year early means the on-call schedule argument happens in October instead of the last week of December.
Frequently asked questions
From Nager.Date, a free, open public holidays API that covers around a hundred countries. The tool sends it your chosen country code and year, and that is the entire request.
It focuses on nationally observed holidays. Some countries have strong regional variation, like Australian state holidays or German state observances, and those may not all appear. For anything contractual, confirm against an official government source.
Roughly one hundred, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, most of Europe, and a long tail across Asia, Africa and South America.
Only the country code and the year you select, sent to Nager.Date to fetch the list. No personal information is part of the request.
Yes. Most holidays follow fixed rules, so future years are computed reliably. Just remember governments occasionally add, move or rename holidays, so a list several years out can change.
Every holiday date from the list in a clean, consistent format designed to paste directly into our business days calculator, a spreadsheet or a project plan without retyping.
The tool shows a clear error and invites you to retry. It never silently serves an old cached list as if it were a fresh answer.