United Kingdom 2026 calendar overview
Legend
- Public holidays
- Regional holiday
- Closing days
- Working day
- Weekend
Public holidays
- : New Year's Day
- : 2nd January (SCT)
- : St Patrick's Day (NIR)
- : Good Friday
- : Easter Monday (ENG, WLS, NIR)
- : Early May bank holiday
- : Spring bank holiday
- : World Cup bank holiday (SCT)
- : Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen's Day) (substitute day) (NIR)
- : Summer bank holiday (SCT)
- : Summer bank holiday (ENG, WLS, NIR)
- : St Andrew's Day (SCT)
- : Christmas Day
- : Boxing Day (substitute day)
Closing days
- : Easter Sunday (ENG, WLS, NIR)
Official sources
- GOV.UK: UK bank holidays
- GOV.UK: UK bank holidays (machine-readable feed)
- Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, s. 1
- Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, Sch. 1
- St Andrews Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 2), s. 1
- The London Gazette, 11 July 2025 (issue 64793, p. 13914) — bank holidays proclamation
- The Edinburgh Gazette, 13 June 2025 (issue 29130, p. 1066) — bank holidays proclamation
- The Edinburgh Gazette, 6 February 2026 (issue 29231, p. 202) — bank holiday proclamation
- The Edinburgh Gazette, 10 July 2026 (issue 29293, p. 1182) — bank holidays proclamation
- The London Gazette, 21 July 2026 (issue 65131, p. 14410) — conditional bank holiday proclamation
- Sunday Trading Act 1994, Sch. 1 para. 2
- Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2004, s. 1
- Christmas Day and New Year's Day Trading (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 13), ss. 1 and 2
- Shops (Sunday Trading &c.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2779 (N.I. 20)), arts. 3 and 5