About

A holiday list is where most planning questions begin, not where they end. StatHolidays exists for the step after the list: turning a country's public holidays into the working day figures that people actually schedule, invoice and staff against.

Consider the questions we hear most often. How many working days are left in this quarter in Poland? If an invoice is due thirty days from now, will anyone in Spain be at work to pay it? Which dates next month are normal working days for a team split between Japan, Germany and the United States? Knowing that a country has a certain number of public holidays answers none of these. Each one is a counting exercise, and that is the part we do for you.

Every country page puts the holiday dates and the resulting counts side by side, and a few rules shape those counts.

First, the weekend is defined country by country. Saturday and Sunday is common but not universal, and a single assumption would be wrong for a long list of places.

Second, holidays that fall on a day that is already a rest day are marked as such. They are easy to mistake for an extra day off, but unless the country grants a substitute they remove nothing from the working year.

Third, regional holidays are shown for reference and left out of the national totals. A national figure that included them would be accurate for one region and wrong for every other.

StatHolidays is a small, independent project. Advertising on the site covers the cost of hosting and the hours spent verifying dates. Advertisers have no say over which countries we cover, how we count, or what any page says.

If something here looks wrong, we want to hear about it. Every reported correction is checked against the official national source before a change is made, and confirmed errors are fixed without delay. You can reach us at hello@statholidays.com.