Isle of Man public holidays 2026
Isle of Man has 10 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 4 May | Monday | Early May Bank Holiday | Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Spring Bank Holiday | Nationwide |
| 12 Jun | Friday | Senior Race Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Jul | Monday | Tynwald Day | Nationwide |
| 31 Aug | Monday | Late Summer Bank Holiday | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 28 Dec | Monday | Boxing Day
St. Stephen's Day |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March
April 2 holidays
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Isle of Man in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Isle of Man. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and May the shortest with 19. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 60 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 10, Isle of Man sits below the middle of the range, around the 24th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 7 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 3 April to 6 April (Good Friday, Easter Monday). There is also one bridge day: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2026.