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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for United Kingdom, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
Includes subnational coverage · 5 subdivisions covered.
The next public holiday in England, Northern Ireland and Wales is
Summer Bank Holiday
In 8 days
Computed · local time Europe/London
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United Kingdom public holidays in 2026
6 national closures in 2026, of 19 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day | Verified |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 4 May 2026 | Early May Bank Holiday | Verified |
| 25 May 2026 | Spring Bank Holiday | Verified |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
| 28 December 2026 | Boxing Day expected | Verified |
The shape of United Kingdom’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
6 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in United Kingdom, 2026
5 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. National closures only, computed on a Monday–Friday week — an assumption, not something the corpus records for this jurisdiction.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 3 Apr – 5 Apr | 3 days | Good Friday | no leave needed |
| 2 May – 4 May | 3 days | Early May Bank Holiday | no leave needed |
| 23 May – 25 May | 3 days | Spring Bank Holiday | no leave needed |
| 25 Dec – 28 Dec | 4 days | Christmas Day, Boxing Day | no leave needed |
Next in each subdivision
4 subdivisions of United Kingdom keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the Calendar API.
| Subdivision | Next | Observance |
|---|---|---|
| England | 31 August 2026 | Summer Bank Holiday |
| Northern Ireland | 31 August 2026 | Summer Bank Holiday |
| Scotland | 30 November 2026 | St Andrew's Day |
| Wales | 31 August 2026 | Summer Bank Holiday |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for United Kingdom, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory closures | 17 | 17 verified | 2026-07-12 | |
| Religious observances | 8 | 8 verified | 2026-07-12 | |
| Optional and restricted days | 2 | 1 verified · 1 compiled | 2026-07-17 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 19 | 18 verified · 1 compiled | 2026-07-17 | |
| School terms and breaks | 232 | — | — | 16 calendars |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 5 | — | — | |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XLON (38) |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 6 | — | — | |
| Elections | 32 | — | — |
Not held for United Kingdom: Statutory weekly rest, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
3 named documents, issued by 3 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Government Digital Service (GOV.UK) internal python-holidays maintainers
How United Kingdom keeps time
| Observances | 19 across the national calendar and 5 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 18 verified · 0 corroborated · 1 compiled, from 2 named sources |
| Languages | Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish Gaelic |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XLON |
| Last reviewed | 2026-07-17 |
The United Kingdom dossier
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18 of 19 dated closures were read from the instrument itself; the rest come from independent secondary sources or published compilations. Across 2 named sources, and every row says which.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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