Public Holidays 2027: Official Dates for 35 Countries (.ics)

On this page
  1. 2027 at a glance
  2. United States
  3. United Kingdom
  4. Canada
  5. Australia
  6. Ireland
  7. New Zealand
  8. Singapore
  9. Germany
  10. Europe
  11. Asia and Pacific
  12. Americas
  13. Middle East and Africa
  14. Put them where the team plans
  15. How we compiled this

The 2027 plan is due in December, the team sits in four countries, and the shared calendar still has 2026’s holidays. Copying dates from a listicle is how teams end up with a “holiday” that the government moved, or miss the Friday off when a holiday falls on Saturday.

This page lists 2027’s public holidays for 35 countries from each government’s own list (or, where 2027 is not published yet, its law), read between 2 and 13 November 2026, with the days that move off a weekend and the ones that are simply lost. Every country has a calendar file to import.

Short answer: in 2027 Christmas and Boxing Day fall on a weekend, so most countries move them to Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 December (UK, Australia, New Zealand) or Friday 24 December (US federal), and the US also takes Friday 31 December for New Year’s Day 2028. Germany moves nothing and has only 5 weekdays off nationwide. Easter Sunday is 28 March, so Good Friday is 26 March and Easter Monday 29 March.

Bar chart of weekdays off for public holidays in 2027 for a Monday-to-Friday worker, substitute days counted. United States federal 12, New Zealand 11, Canada federal 10, Northern Ireland 10, Scotland 9, Australia New South Wales 9, England and Wales 8, Ireland 8 plus 2 on a weekend, Singapore 8 plus 3 on a weekend, Germany nationwide 5 plus 4 on weekends. Dashed bars are holidays on a Saturday or Sunday with no weekday off in their place. Sources: each government's own list.

2027 at a glance

Holidays on a weekend in 2027What happens
United StatesJuneteenth (Sat), Independence Day (Sun), Christmas (Sat), New Year 2028 (Sat)Moved: Saturday to Friday, Sunday to Monday
United KingdomChristmas (Sat), Boxing Day (Sun), 2 January in Scotland (Sat)Substitute days on Monday and Tuesday
Canada (federal)Christmas (Sat), Boxing Day (Sun)A work day just before or after
AustraliaAnzac Day (Sun), Christmas (Sat), Boxing Day (Sun)Additional days, by state
IrelandChristmas (Sat), St Stephen’s Day (Sun)No automatic day off
New Zealand2 January, Waitangi Day, ANZAC Day, Christmas, Boxing DayMoved to Monday (or Tuesday)
SingaporeChinese New Year (Sat and Sun), Labour Day (Sat), Christmas (Sat)Only the Sunday moves, to Monday 8 February
GermanyLabour Day (Sat), German Unity Day (Sun), Christmas (Sat), St Stephen’s Day (Sun)Nothing moves

Every calendar on this page, with the weekdays it takes off in 2027 and the working days left for a working week. Each name opens the country’s own page: every date, the weekend rule, working days by month and a calendar file.

United States

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-01-18 (Mon 18 Jan)Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.Yes
2027-02-15 (Mon 15 Feb)Washington's BirthdayYes
2027-05-31 (Mon 31 May)Memorial DayYes
2027-06-18 (Fri 18 Jun)Juneteenth National Independence Day (observed) (Falls on Saturday 19 June)Yes
2027-07-05 (Mon 5 Jul)Independence Day (observed) (Falls on Sunday 4 July)Yes
2027-09-06 (Mon 6 Sept)Labor DayYes
2027-10-11 (Mon 11 Oct)Columbus DayYes
2027-11-11 (Thu 11 Nov)Veterans DayYes
2027-11-25 (Thu 25 Nov)Thanksgiving DayYes
2027-12-24 (Fri 24 Dec)Christmas Day (observed) (Falls on Saturday 25 December)Yes
2027-12-31 (Fri 31 Dec)New Year's Day 2028 (observed) (Falls on Saturday 1 January 2028)Yes

Source: US Office of Personnel Management. Calendar file: United States, Federal holidays 2027 (.ics).

These are federal holidays, which federal employees get by law and most private employers follow. OPM’s rule for weekends is in its table notes: for a Saturday holiday “the preceding Friday will be treated as a holiday”, for a Sunday one “the following Monday”. The .ics file is the same one we published with Jira holidays: US federal 2027 (.ics).

United Kingdom

GOV.UK keeps a separate list for each nation.

England and Wales

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-03-29 (Mon 29 Mar)Easter MondayYes
2027-05-03 (Mon 3 May)Early May bank holidayYes
2027-05-31 (Mon 31 May)Spring bank holidayYes
2027-08-30 (Mon 30 Aug)Summer bank holidayYes
2027-12-27 (Mon 27 Dec)Christmas Day (substitute day)Yes
2027-12-28 (Tue 28 Dec)Boxing Day (substitute day)Yes

Source: GOV.UK. Calendar file: United Kingdom, Bank holidays, England and Wales 2027 (.ics).

Scotland

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-01-04 (Mon 4 Jan)2nd January (substitute day)Yes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-05-03 (Mon 3 May)Early May bank holidayYes
2027-05-31 (Mon 31 May)Spring bank holidayYes
2027-08-02 (Mon 2 Aug)Summer bank holidayYes
2027-11-30 (Tue 30 Nov)St Andrew's DayYes
2027-12-27 (Mon 27 Dec)Christmas Day (substitute day)Yes
2027-12-28 (Tue 28 Dec)Boxing Day (substitute day)Yes

Source: GOV.UK. Calendar file: United Kingdom, Bank holidays, Scotland 2027 (.ics).

Northern Ireland

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-03-17 (Wed 17 Mar)St Patrick's DayYes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-03-29 (Mon 29 Mar)Easter MondayYes
2027-05-03 (Mon 3 May)Early May bank holidayYes
2027-05-31 (Mon 31 May)Spring bank holidayYes
2027-07-12 (Mon 12 Jul)Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen's Day)Yes
2027-08-30 (Mon 30 Aug)Summer bank holidayYes
2027-12-27 (Mon 27 Dec)Christmas Day (substitute day)Yes
2027-12-28 (Tue 28 Dec)Boxing Day (substitute day)Yes

Source: GOV.UK. Calendar file: United Kingdom, Bank holidays, Northern Ireland 2027 (.ics).

Canada

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-05-24 (Mon 24 May)Victoria DayYes
2027-07-01 (Thu 1 Jul)Canada DayYes
2027-09-06 (Mon 6 Sept)Labour DayYes
2027-09-30 (Thu 30 Sept)National Day for Truth and ReconciliationYes
2027-10-11 (Mon 11 Oct)Thanksgiving DayYes
2027-11-11 (Thu 11 Nov)Remembrance DayYes
2027-12-25 (Sat 25 Dec)Christmas Day (Saturday: a work day immediately before or after instead)No, weekend
2027-12-26 (Sun 26 Dec)Boxing Day (Sunday: a work day immediately before or after instead)No, weekend
2027-12-27 (Mon 27 Dec)Christmas Day, day off (assumed)Yes
2027-12-28 (Tue 28 Dec)Boxing Day, day off (assumed)Yes

Source: Government of Canada, Canada Labour Code and Holidays Act. Calendar file: Canada, Federal general holidays 2027 (.ics). No government table for 2027 yet: dates worked out from the law. Thanksgiving is set by proclamation; the second Monday of October is the usual date. For Christmas and Boxing Day on a weekend the law gives the scheduled work day immediately before or after, without naming it; we assume Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 December.

The ten “general holidays” are the ones the Canada Labour Code gives employees of federally regulated employers. Provinces set their own lists for everyone else, with days such as Family Day in February in several provinces, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec on 24 June, and the Civic Holiday on the first Monday in August outside Quebec, though it is not a statutory holiday everywhere.

Australia

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-01-26 (Tue 26 Jan)Australia DayYes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-03-27 (Sat 27 Mar)Easter SaturdayNo, weekend
2027-03-28 (Sun 28 Mar)Easter SundayNo, weekend
2027-03-29 (Mon 29 Mar)Easter MondayYes
2027-04-25 (Sun 25 Apr)Anzac Day (Sunday)No, weekend
2027-04-26 (Mon 26 Apr)Anzac Day (additional day)Yes
2027-06-14 (Mon 14 Jun)King's BirthdayYes
2027-10-04 (Mon 4 Oct)Labour DayYes
2027-12-25 (Sat 25 Dec)Christmas DayNo, weekend
2027-12-26 (Sun 26 Dec)Boxing DayNo, weekend
2027-12-27 (Mon 27 Dec)Christmas Day (additional day)Yes
2027-12-28 (Tue 28 Dec)Boxing Day (additional day)Yes

Source: NSW Government. Calendar file: Australia, Public holidays, New South Wales 2027 (.ics). National days are the same in every state we checked (NSW, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia); Labour Day and the King’s Birthday differ by state.

Australia’s states set their own holidays, so the table is New South Wales. New Year’s Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Christmas and Boxing Day were the same in every state list we could read (NSW, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia), and so were the additional days of 27 and 28 December. The others differ: Labour Day is 1 March in Western Australia, 3 May in Queensland and 4 October in NSW and South Australia; the King’s Birthday is 14 June in NSW and South Australia, 27 September in Western Australia and 4 October in Queensland. South Australia lists no extra day for Anzac Day. Check Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory on their own government pages.

Ireland

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-02-01 (Mon 1 Feb)St Brigid's DayYes
2027-03-17 (Wed 17 Mar)Saint Patrick's DayYes
2027-03-29 (Mon 29 Mar)Easter MondayYes
2027-05-03 (Mon 3 May)May public holidayYes
2027-06-07 (Mon 7 Jun)June public holidayYes
2027-08-02 (Mon 2 Aug)August public holidayYes
2027-10-25 (Mon 25 Oct)October public holidayYes
2027-12-25 (Sat 25 Dec)Christmas Day (Saturday: no automatic next working day off)No, weekend
2027-12-26 (Sun 26 Dec)Saint Stephen's Day (Sunday: no automatic next working day off)No, weekend

Source: Citizens Information. Calendar file: Ireland, Public holidays 2027 (.ics).

Ireland has ten public holidays, “increased from 9 in 2022” when St Brigid’s Day was added, Citizens Information says. Good Friday is not one of them (“Good Friday is not a public holiday”), and when a holiday falls on a weekend: “you do not have any automatic legal entitlement to have the next working day off work.” You still get a public holiday benefit from your employer, but not necessarily a day off.

New Zealand

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-01-02 (Sat 2 Jan)Day after New Year's DayNo, weekend
2027-01-04 (Mon 4 Jan)Day after New Year's Day (observed)Yes
2027-02-06 (Sat 6 Feb)Waitangi DayNo, weekend
2027-02-08 (Mon 8 Feb)Waitangi Day (observed)Yes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-03-29 (Mon 29 Mar)Easter MondayYes
2027-04-25 (Sun 25 Apr)ANZAC DayNo, weekend
2027-04-26 (Mon 26 Apr)ANZAC Day (observed)Yes
2027-06-07 (Mon 7 Jun)King's BirthdayYes
2027-06-25 (Fri 25 Jun)MatarikiYes
2027-10-25 (Mon 25 Oct)Labour DayYes
2027-12-25 (Sat 25 Dec)Christmas DayNo, weekend
2027-12-26 (Sun 26 Dec)Boxing DayNo, weekend
2027-12-27 (Mon 27 Dec)Christmas Day (observed)Yes
2027-12-28 (Tue 28 Dec)Boxing Day (observed)Yes

Source: Employment New Zealand. Calendar file: New Zealand, National public holidays 2027 (.ics). Weekend holidays move to Monday (or Tuesday) for people who would not normally work that weekend day. The source page prints “Saturday 25 April” for ANZAC Day; 25 April 2027 is a Sunday.

Regional anniversary days are on top: Wellington on Monday 25 January, Auckland and Nelson on Monday 1 February, Canterbury on Friday 12 November and others, listed on the same Employment New Zealand page.

Singapore

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's DayYes
2027-02-06 (Sat 6 Feb)Chinese New YearNo, weekend
2027-02-07 (Sun 7 Feb)Chinese New Year (second day)No, weekend
2027-02-08 (Mon 8 Feb)Chinese New Year (in lieu) (A public holiday if your rest day is Sunday 7 February)Yes
2027-03-10 (Wed 10 Mar)Hari Raya PuasaYes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good FridayYes
2027-05-01 (Sat 1 May)Labour Day (Saturday)No, weekend
2027-05-17 (Mon 17 May)Hari Raya HajiYes
2027-05-20 (Thu 20 May)Vesak DayYes
2027-08-09 (Mon 9 Aug)National DayYes
2027-10-28 (Thu 28 Oct)DeepavaliYes
2027-12-25 (Sat 25 Dec)Christmas Day (Saturday)No, weekend

Source: Ministry of Manpower. Calendar file: Singapore, Public holidays 2027 (.ics).

Singapore moves a Sunday holiday to Monday; a holiday on Saturday gives no public holiday in its place. Hari Raya Puasa, Hari Raya Haji, Vesak Day and Deepavali follow lunar or religious calendars, so their dates are the Ministry of Manpower’s, not a rule.

Germany

DateHolidayWeekday off?
2027-01-01 (Fri 1 Jan)New Year's Day (Neujahr)Yes
2027-03-26 (Fri 26 Mar)Good Friday (Karfreitag)Yes
2027-03-29 (Mon 29 Mar)Easter Monday (Ostermontag)Yes
2027-05-01 (Sat 1 May)Labour Day (Tag der Arbeit) (Saturday)No, weekend
2027-05-06 (Thu 6 May)Ascension Day (Christi Himmelfahrt)Yes
2027-05-17 (Mon 17 May)Whit Monday (Pfingstmontag)Yes
2027-10-03 (Sun 3 Oct)German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit) (Sunday)No, weekend
2027-12-25 (Sat 25 Dec)Christmas Day (1. Weihnachtstag) (Saturday)No, weekend
2027-12-26 (Sun 26 Dec)St Stephen's Day (2. Weihnachtstag) (Sunday)No, weekend

Source: Land Berlin (berlin.de), Bavarian and Baden-Württemberg interior ministries. Calendar file: Germany, Nationwide public holidays 2027 (.ics). Germany has no substitute days: a holiday on a weekend is simply lost.

Each Land adds its own: Epiphany (6 January) in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, International Women’s Day (8 March) in Berlin, Corpus Christi (Thursday 27 May 2027) and All Saints’ Day (1 November) in several Länder, Reformation Day (31 October) in several northern and eastern ones.

Europe

France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic and Turkey. Few of them move a weekend holiday: Belgium gives a replacement day, Poland another day off for a Saturday holiday, and Spain a Monday for a Sunday one in some regions. Everywhere else in this list a holiday on a weekend is simply gone. Several countries also have eves (Christmas Eve, Midsummer Eve) that most people get off by agreement but the law does not count; the tables list them and the counts leave them out.

Asia and Pacific

Japan, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. China builds week-long breaks by moving weekend days and then works five weekend days in 2027 to make up for it; our working-day counts include those. South Korea and Thailand move a weekend holiday to Monday. Holidays that follow the moon (Eid, Lunar New Year, Vesak) are fixed by each government and Islamic dates can still shift by a day.

Americas

Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, beside the United States and Canada above. Mexico and Argentina move some holidays to Mondays by law, so long weekends are planned in. Brazil’s federal list for 2027 comes out in late December.

Middle East and Africa

South Africa, Israel and Kenya. Israel works Sunday to Thursday, so its Friday and Saturday holidays fall on the weekend and a Sunday holiday is a day off; the counts use that week. South Africa and Kenya move a Sunday holiday to Monday.

Put them where the team plans

  • Calendars. Google Calendar and Outlook import the .ics files above as all-day events.
  • Jira. Board non-working days and Jira Service Management SLA calendars both need holidays, and some features ignore them. Jira holidays shows where to set them and how to import a file into an SLA calendar.
  • Leave. Public holidays are not vacations, but they shrink the days a team has. Our app OutSync runs leave requests in Jira and Confluence, and its Advanced plan adds public-holiday calendars by region.
  • Capacity. For the working days each month leaves, see Working days 2027, or count them for any date range with the business days calculator.

How we compiled this

  • Each date comes from the government source named under its table, read between 2 and 13 November 2026: OPM, GOV.UK, canada.ca and the Canadian statutes, nsw.gov.au (with the Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia pages for the comparison), Citizens Information, Employment New Zealand, the Ministry of Manpower, and berlin.de with the Bavarian and Baden-Württemberg interior ministries.
  • Every date was checked against the 2027 calendar for its weekday. One source has a slip: Employment New Zealand’s page calls ANZAC Day “Saturday 25 April”; 25 April 2027 is a Sunday, and the observed Monday 26 April follows its own rule.
  • Canada has not published a 2027 table yet, so its dates follow the law, as noted under the table. The same goes for Italy, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Kenya; each table says so.
  • The 27 countries after Germany were collected on 13 November 2026 from ministries, official gazettes, central banks and law databases, each named under its table. Where a government site would not load for an automated reader (the Philippines), we used a mirror of the official text and say so.
  • Not included yet: Malaysia (the official 2027 list would not load), the United Arab Emirates (no 2027 cabinet calendar; every Islamic date is still an estimate) and Colombia (no government page loaded, and a new July holiday is being challenged in court). We will add them once the official lists can be read.

Frequently asked questions

How many public holidays are there in 2027?

It depends on the country and region. Counting weekdays off for a Monday-to-Friday worker: 12 US federal holidays, 11 in New Zealand, 10 for Canada's federal employers and in Northern Ireland, 9 in Scotland and New South Wales, 8 in England and Wales, Ireland and Singapore, and 5 nationwide in Germany.

What happens when a holiday falls on a weekend in 2027?

The US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand move it to a weekday: Christmas on Saturday 25 December 2027 becomes Monday 27 (UK, Australia, New Zealand) or Friday 24 (US federal). Ireland, Germany and Singapore (for Saturdays) do not, so those holidays are lost.

Why does Germany have so few holidays in 2027?

Four of its nine nationwide holidays fall on a weekend (Labour Day, German Unity Day, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day) and German law has no substitute days. The Länder add more, such as 6 January in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg or 8 March in Berlin.

Can I import these holidays into Outlook, Google Calendar or Jira?

Yes. Each country has an .ics file below, with one all-day event per holiday and substitute day. Google Calendar and Outlook import .ics directly; Jira Service Management SLA calendars take the same files.

Is 31 December 2027 a holiday in the US?

For federal employees, yes: New Year's Day 2028 falls on a Saturday, so OPM's rule moves the holiday to Friday 31 December 2027. It is the one most 2027 lists miss.

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