The United Kingdom has 8 national public holidays in 2026, and 253 business days across the year. Each date below is fixed — use the calculator to count a range of your own.
Business days
National holidays only — state and regional ones are not included.
| Date | Weekday | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January | Thursday | New Year’s Day |
| 3 April | Friday | Good Friday |
| 6 April | Monday | Easter Monday |
| 4 May | Monday | Early May Bank Holiday |
| 25 May | Monday | Spring Bank Holiday |
| 31 August | Monday | Summer Bank Holiday |
| 25 December | Friday | Christmas Day |
| 28 December | Monday | Boxing Day |
Out of 365 calendar days, 253 are business days once weekends and national holidays come out. That figure counts both ends of the year and ignores any leave your employer grants beyond the law.
The United Kingdom moves a holiday that lands on a weekend to the next weekday, so all 8 produce a day off in 2026. The dates in the table are the observed ones — the day people actually take — which is what a deadline calculation needs.
New Year’s Day falls on a Thursday in 2026, which makes the neighbouring day the obvious one to take off for a long weekend. Whether that day counts as worked is between you and your employer — the calculator treats it as a normal business day.
253, counting both 1 January and 31 December, with weekends and the 8 national holidays removed. State, provincial and local holidays are not included — they apply to part of the country, and counting some but not others would give a wrong answer that looks precise.
No. Only holidays that apply to the whole country are counted here. If your region has its own, subtract them yourself or use the calculator above with a range that skips them.
Public holidays change by law, not by formula — a parliament can create, move or abolish one. These dates reflect the law as it stands. Movable ones such as Easter are computed for the year, not copied from a table.
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