The statutory public holidays for 2023 are as follows:
Monday 2nd January | New Year's Day |
Friday 7th April | Good Friday |
Monday 10th April | Easter Monday |
Monday 1st May | May Day bank holiday |
Monday 8th May | Extra public holiday for the Coronation of King Charles III |
Tuesday 9th May | Liberation Day |
Monday 29th May | Spring bank holiday |
Monday 28th August | Summer bank holiday |
Monday 25th December | Christmas Day |
Tuesday 26th December | Boxing Day |
School term dates can be accessed here.
All public holidays are prescribed by the Public Holidays Ordinance, 2009 as follows:
- New Year's Day, if a weekday
- the 2nd January, in a year when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday
- the 3rd January, in a year where New Year's Day falls on a Saturday
- Easter Monday
- the first Monday in May
- the 9th May, Liberation Day
- the last Monday in May
- the last Monday in August
- the 26th December, Boxing Day, if a weekday
- the 27th December, in a year when Christmas Day or Boxing Day falls on a Sunday
- the 28th December, in a year where Christmas Day or Boxing Day falls on a Saturday
"Weekday" does not include a Saturday.
Christmas Day and Good Friday (and all Sundays) are customary law holidays.