Everything About World Holiday Lookup
Coordinating overseas business trips, collaborating with international teams, checking market closures for foreign stocks, planning travel — there are more moments than you might think when you need another country's holidays. Based on Nager.Date open data, this tool lets you look up public holidays for about 200 countries and regions including the US, Japan, China, Vietnam, and Europe by year. It shows dates, weekdays, and both local-language and English names, making it easy to match holiday names you saw in local documents or news.
Checking holidays before a trip matters. When your itinerary overlaps a major local holiday, shops, banks, government offices, and museums close, attractions fill with local crowds, and trains, flights, and hotels sell out or spike in price. China's Golden Week (Oct 1–7) and Spring Festival, Japan's Golden Week (late April–early May), Vietnam's Tết, and Thailand's Songkran are prime examples. This tool flags such periods with peak-travel badges so you can adjust plans before departure — pair it with our exchange rate calculator to prepare your travel budget at the same time.
It is equally useful for business. US markets and banks close on federal holidays (11 in 2026), so overseas stock investors should check closures in advance. Scheduling around a counterpart country's holidays also prevents unexpected reply delays. The next-holiday countdown shows the nearest upcoming holiday as a D-Day figure, handy when setting meetings and deadlines.
Holiday systems differ interestingly by country. Japan has a generous 16 public holidays a year; the US layers state-level regional holidays on top of federal ones (marked with a regional badge in the table). China has few statutory holidays but creates long breaks by adjusting working days. Islamic countries follow lunar calendars, so dates shift every year — making year-by-year lookup especially important.
Tips: results are cached for your session, so switching between countries stays fast. Past holidays are dimmed so remaining ones stand out. For Korean holidays use our dedicated page with verified substitute-holiday rules, and for trip planning combine this with the exchange rate and date calculators.