Time as infrastructure

Your systems don’t know when Karachi is closed.

Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for 241 jurisdictions — every date carrying its evidence, its precision, and the day we last checked.

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241
Countries
652
Subdivisions
57
Exchanges
36
Calendar systems
4,124
Observances
distinct rules, not per year
10,235
Dated closures
2025–2028 · national layer
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A date is not a fact until someone says so

A moon-sighting holiday is not a fact until the decree. Most calendar sources return a confident date anyway. We return an estimate, say the announcement is pending, and name the authority it is pending from — so your code can decide whether that is good enough.

Which is also why there is a new edition every month. Governments revise dates, exchanges announce closures, ministries move deadlines, and religious authorities confirm observances only once they have been observed. The corpus is rebuilt monthly and every dossier reissued, with a page recording what moved since the last one. An edition is a position on a date, not a publication.

Where a bad date moves money

Questions that get expensive when they are answered badly.

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When dates stop being administration

Nine places where the date is the decision.

Payroll & HR

Which of our 14 markets shut on Thursday?

A regional holiday pays one state late.

Treasury

Bank holiday or market holiday?

Different closures. Confusing them moves money late.

Freight & customs

Last safe day to lodge before Golden Week?

Customs winds down before the holiday, not during.

Legal & filings

Does this filing date shift, and which way?

Some jurisdictions roll forward, some back.

See all nine, with worked answers

Three ways to use the same corpus

For software, the API. For a decision, a dossier. For planning, the Operating Calendar. Same evidence underneath; the difference is who has to read the answer.

For your systems

Calendar API

Your payroll, treasury or logistics software asks us directly, and gets back the date, what stands behind it, and how sure we are. Subdivisions inherit their national rules unless they override them.

Free for one country

See API plans

For a decision

Dossiers

A dated briefing on one country: every closure, the evidence behind each one, and the CSV and calendar files to circulate. For the finance, legal and operations teams who need a document they can send round — not an endpoint, and not the same software.

A document, bought once

Browse dossiers

For planning · in development

Operating Calendar

Put your markets on one calendar and see where they collide — which week is clear in all of them, whose office hours actually overlap, what your worst dates are. Free today for two places; the full tool is what we are building next.

Free for two places, no account. Team access is not priced yet.

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Answer something now, for free

No account, no card, no email. Each one shows its working — which day it excluded, what that day was called, and how well we can stand behind it.

Working days between two dates Weekends and that country’s public holidays taken out, every excluded day named. When is a deadline, really Ten working days from Tuesday — in whose working days? Pick the country. Operating Calendar Closures on one calendar, and whether the office hours overlap at all. All tools Plus what is coming: long weekends, calendar conversion, meeting planner.

Where a date comes from

Most calendars hand you a date. This one hands you the date, what stands behind it, and how sure we are.

Authorities

Government gazettesstatutory holidays, decrees
Exchange noticestrading days, half-days
Central bankssettlement calendars
Revenue authoritiesfiling deadlines
Rules, not date lists 36 CALENDAR SYSTEMS

A rule holds for years we have never published, and changes when the rule changes — not when someone remembers to update a spreadsheet.

Every date labelled

verifiednamed authority
corroboratedsources agree
compiledno primary source retrieved

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API · PDF · CSV · ICS

Where a date is an estimate — a lunisolar rule awaiting a moon-sighting decree — we return it as an estimate rather than a confident wrong answer.

Three tiers. We never inflate one for presentation.

We never inflate a tier for presentation. A row rises only when a retrieval actually happens, so these counts move between editions — and sometimes they move down.

Not all dates mean the same thing

A bank holiday, a market closure, a tax deadline and a weather normal can fall on the same day, but they come from different authorities and move for different reasons. We keep them in separate layers and label each one, so a statistical estimate can never be read as a government gazette — and nothing we have not shipped is sold as though we had.

What we hold, layer by layer