Working day
An ordinary working day, shown in black text on a plain background.
Weekend
Weekend days are shown in red text on a plain background. Which days those are follows the country shown — Saturday and Sunday in most of them.
Public holiday
A nationwide official public holiday, filled solid red with white text.
Regional holiday
An official holiday kept only in some states, provinces or regions, shown as a lighter red tint.
Part-day holiday
An official holiday that covers only part of the day — Republic Day in Turkey begins at 13:00 on 28 October, and Christmas Eve is a public holiday in South Australia and the Northern Territory from 19:00. Half the cell is filled: in the full holiday red where the whole country keeps those hours, in the regional tint where only a region does. The holiday list gives the hours.
Holiday for some employees
An official holiday that only part of the workforce gets — Thailand's Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day is generally for the public service, right across the country. The cell is hatched with diagonal stripes, over the regional tint where the day is a region's as well, as Easter Tuesday in Tasmania is. The holiday list names who keeps it.
Trading day
A day when shops may open where the law otherwise keeps them shut — usually a Sunday, as in Poland and Norway, but Spain's regions authorise public holidays too. Underlined in green.
Make-up working day
A weekend day the government has ordered worked, so that a public holiday can run longer — China extends its Spring Festival this way. Shown in bold black, like the working day it has become, instead of the weekend's red.
Designated rest day
A working day the government has ordered taken off, so that a public holiday can run longer — Hungary bridges its holidays this way, paying for the day with a working Saturday. Shown in bold red, like the rest day it has become, instead of the working day's black.
Closing day
Closed by law, without holiday pay. Marked with an amber corner — full strength when the closing covers everywhere the calendar is showing, lighter when it reaches only part of that.
Part-day closing day
Closed by law for part of the day rather than all of it — shops in Austria, Germany and Hungary may trade until 14:00 on 24 December and must shut after that. The amber corner is cut off halfway down, the way a part-day holiday's fill stops halfway; a whole corner means the whole day. The closing list gives the hours.
Likely substitute day off
A substitute day off for a public holiday that falls on a Saturday, not yet confirmed by an official date — outlined with a dashed red border. Once the date is confirmed, the border goes solid.
Confirmed substitute day off
An officially confirmed substitute day off, outlined with a solid red border. When only part of the workforce gets it — the public service, for example — the cell is hatched with diagonal stripes and the substitute list names who keeps it.
Today
The current date, filled with a solid dark blue circle.
Today on a marked day
When today is also a holiday or another marked day, the cell keeps that day's colour and shape and the blue circle appears inside it.
Trading days and substitute days off appear only for the countries where they apply.