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Local holiday

Statutory usually a delegated power, exercised by a city or district

A holiday in one city or district — a patron saint's day, a fair, a founding.


Often confused with regional holiday

A local holiday applies to a city, municipality or district rather than a region or a country. Patron saints' days across southern Europe are the classic case, along with market fairs and founding anniversaries.

The power is usually delegated: a national or regional government allows local authorities to declare a fixed number of days, and each chooses its own. That makes them numerous, genuinely local, and published in places that are hard to reach — a municipal bulletin rather than a national gazette.

The corpus holds them where a subdivision is recorded at city level, and does not claim to hold them comprehensively. There is no country in which every municipal holiday is centrally published.

Local holiday vs regional holiday

Regional is a subdivision with its own competence. Local is usually a delegated power exercised by a city, and there are far more of them.

See also regional holiday · public holiday · jurisdiction

Municipal holidays are not comprehensively held for any country, and no country centrally publishes them. See what we hold.