Public holidays worldwide in May 2026
125 different nationwide public holidays (counted by date and name) fall in May 2026 across the countries in our data. The busiest date is Friday, 1 May 2026, when 160 countries have a public holiday. Holidays that apply only in some regions are not included here; open a country page for those.
| Date | Holiday | Countries |
|---|---|---|
| 1 May Fri | Labour Day 112 countries | Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo and 82 more |
| 1 May Fri | International Workers' Day 12 countries | Bulgaria, Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Martinique, Slovakia, Sweden, Tanzania, Ukraine, Uruguay |
| 1 May Fri | May Day 10 countries | Albania, Eritrea, Finland, Ghana, Iceland, Monaco, Poland, Saint Lucia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Åland Islands |
| 1 May Fri | Workers' Day 6 countries | Eswatini, Lesotho, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa |
| 1 May Fri | Worker's Day 3 countries | Malta, Mozambique, Zimbabwe |
| 1 May Fri | General Prayer Day 2 countries | Faroe Islands, Greenland |
| 1 May Fri | Constitution Day 1 country | Marshall Islands |
| 1 May Fri | Day of the Convocation of the Constitutional Assembly of the Republic of Latvia 1 country | Latvia |
| 1 May Fri | Early May Bank Holiday 1 country | Guernsey |
| 1 May Fri | Indian Arrival Day 1 country | Grenada |
| 1 May Fri | International Workers Day 1 country | Italy |
| 1 May Fri | International Working Day 1 country | Lithuania |
| 1 May Fri | Kazakhstan People's Unity Day 1 country | Kazakhstan |
| 1 May Fri | Labour Day (Moldova) 1 country | Moldova |
| 1 May Fri | Labour and Agriculture Day 1 country | Haiti |
| 1 May Fri | Labour day 1 country | Hungary |
| 1 May Fri | May Day / International Workers' Day 1 country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 1 May Fri | May Day Bank Holiday 1 country | Gibraltar |
| 1 May Fri | National Holiday 1 country | Austria |
| 1 May Fri | Saint Joseph the Worker 1 country | Vatican City |
| 1 May Fri | Spring Day 1 country | Estonia |
| 2 May Sat | Labour Day 3 countries | Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia |
| 2 May Sat | May Day / International Workers' Day 1 country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 3 May Sun | Constitution Day 1 country | Poland |
| 3 May Sun | The Day of the Cross 1 country | El Salvador |
| 4 May Mon | Early May Bank Holiday 3 countries | Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom |
| 4 May Mon | Labour Day 3 countries | Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| 4 May Mon | Cassinga Day 1 country | Namibia |
| 4 May Mon | Day of the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia 1 country | Latvia |
| 4 May Mon | Emancipation Day 1 country | Cayman Islands |
| 4 May Mon | Greenery Day 1 country | Japan |
| 4 May Mon | May Day 1 country | Ireland |
| 5 May Tue | Children's Day 2 countries | Japan, South Korea |
| 5 May Tue | Arrival Day 1 country | Guyana |
| 5 May Tue | Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day 1 country | Ethiopia |
| 5 May Tue | Royal Ploughing Ceremony 1 country | Cambodia |
| 5 May Tue | Senior Citizens Day 1 country | Palau |
| 6 May Wed | Constitution Memorial Day 1 country | Japan |
| 6 May Wed | Martyr's Day 1 country | Gabon |
| 6 May Wed | Saint George's Day 1 country | Bulgaria |
| 7 May Thu | Defender of the Fatherland Day 1 country | Kazakhstan |
| 7 May Thu | Labour Day 1 country | Egypt |
| 7 May Thu | Soldiers' Day 1 country | El Salvador |
| 8 May Fri | Victory Day 9 countries | French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna |
| 8 May Fri | Liberation Day 1 country | Czechia |
| 8 May Fri | Victory day over Nazism in World War II 1 country | Ukraine |
| 8 May Fri | Victory in Europe Day 1 country | France |
| 9 May Sat | Liberation Day 2 countries | Guernsey, Jersey |
| 9 May Sat | Victory Day 2 countries | Belarus, Russia |
| 9 May Sat | Day of Victory over Fascism 1 country | Georgia |
| 9 May Sat | Europe Day 1 country | Luxembourg |
| 9 May Sat | Great Patriotic War Against Fascism Victory Day 1 country | Kazakhstan |
| 9 May Sat | Victory and Commemoration Day 1 country | Moldova |
| 9 May Sat | Victory and Peace Day 1 country | Armenia |
| 10 May Sun | Mother's Day 3 countries | El Salvador, Latvia, Tokelau |
| 10 May Sun | Father's Day 1 country | El Salvador |
| 11 May Mon | King's Official Birthday 2 countries | Pitcairn Islands, Tuvalu |
| 11 May Mon | Constitution Day 1 country | Micronesia |
| 11 May Mon | Gospel Day 1 country | Tuvalu |
| 11 May Mon | Mother's Day 1 country | Samoa |
| 12 May Tue | Saint Andrew the First-Called Day 1 country | Georgia |
| 14 May Thu | Ascension Day 49 countries | Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Congo, Curaçao, Denmark, Eswatini, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Germany, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar and 19 more |
| 14 May Thu | King Sihamoni's Birthday 1 country | Cambodia |
| 14 May Thu | National Unification Day 1 country | Liberia |
| 14 May Thu | Paraguayan Independence 1 country | Paraguay |
| 14 May Thu | President Kamuzu Banda's Birthday 1 country | Malawi |
| 15 May Fri | Day of Customs and Traditions 1 country | Burkina Faso |
| 15 May Fri | Paraguayan Independence 1 country | Paraguay |
| 16 May Sat | SPLA Day 1 country | South Sudan |
| 17 May Sun | Constitution Day 3 countries | Nauru, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen |
| 17 May Sun | Liberation Day 1 country | DR Congo |
| 18 May Mon | Ascension Day 1 country | Colombia |
| 18 May Mon | Battle of Las Piedras 1 country | Uruguay |
| 18 May Mon | Discovery Day 1 country | Cayman Islands |
| 18 May Mon | Flag and Universities Day 1 country | Haiti |
| 18 May Mon | Victoria Day 1 country | Canada |
| 19 May Tue | Atatürk Commemoration & Youth Day 1 country | Türkiye |
| 20 May Wed | National Day 1 country | Cameroon |
| 21 May Thu | Independence Day 1 country | Montenegro |
| 21 May Thu | Navy Day 1 country | Chile |
| 21 May Thu | Saint Helena Day 1 country | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
| 22 May Fri | Abolition Day 1 country | Martinique |
| 22 May Fri | Bermuda Day 1 country | Bermuda |
| 22 May Fri | Bălţi Day 1 country | Moldova |
| 22 May Fri | Independence Day 1 country | Montenegro |
| 23 May Sat | Labour Day 1 country | Jamaica |
| 24 May Sun | Pentecost 21 countries | Austria, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, French Polynesia, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sint Maarten, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Åland Islands |
| 24 May Sun | Independence Day 1 country | Eritrea |
| 24 May Sun | Saints Cyril and Methodius Day 1 country | North Macedonia |
| 24 May Sun | The Battle of Pichincha 1 country | Ecuador |
| 25 May Mon | Whit Monday 46 countries | Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, British Virgin Islands, Central African Republic, Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Faroe Islands, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Martinique, Monaco and 16 more |
| 25 May Mon | Africa Day 6 countries | Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zimbabwe |
| 25 May Mon | Spring Bank Holiday 5 countries | Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom |
| 25 May Mon | Memorial Day 3 countries | Puerto Rico, United States, United States Virgin Islands |
| 25 May Mon | Buddha's Birthday 2 countries | Hong Kong, South Korea |
| 25 May Mon | Africa Day/ Heroes' Day 1 country | Lesotho |
| 25 May Mon | African Freedom Day 1 country | Zambia |
| 25 May Mon | JAGS McCartney Day 1 country | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 25 May Mon | King's Birthday 1 country | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 25 May Mon | May Revolution 1 country | Argentina |
| 25 May Mon | Saints Cyril and Methodius Day 1 country | Bulgaria |
| 26 May Tue | Independence Day 2 countries | Georgia, Guyana |
| 26 May Tue | Memorial Day 1 country | Northern Mariana Islands |
| 26 May Tue | Tabaski (Roughly Date) 1 country | Mali |
| 27 May Wed | Abolition Day 1 country | Guadeloupe |
| 27 May Wed | Army Day 1 country | Nicaragua |
| 27 May Wed | Children's Day 1 country | Nigeria |
| 27 May Wed | Eid Al-Adha 1 country | Egypt |
| 27 May Wed | Eid al-Adha First Day 1 country | Türkiye |
| 27 May Wed | Hari Raya Haji 1 country | Singapore |
| 28 May Thu | Abolition Day 1 country | Saint Martin |
| 28 May Thu | Downfall of the Derg 1 country | Ethiopia |
| 28 May Thu | Eid Al-Adha 1 country | Egypt |
| 28 May Thu | Eid al-Adha Second Day 1 country | Türkiye |
| 28 May Thu | Genocide Remembrance Day 1 country | Namibia |
| 28 May Thu | Mother's Day 1 country | Dominican Republic |
| 28 May Thu | Republic Day 1 country | Armenia |
| 29 May Fri | Eid Al-Adha 1 country | Egypt |
| 29 May Fri | Eid al-Adha Third Day 1 country | Türkiye |
| 30 May Sat | Eid Al-Adha 1 country | Egypt |
| 30 May Sat | Eid al-Adha Fourth Day 1 country | Türkiye |
| 30 May Sat | Indian Arrival Day 1 country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 30 May Sat | National Day 1 country | Croatia |
| 31 May Sun | Pentecost 4 countries | Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Ukraine |
| 31 May Sun | Eid Al-Adha 1 country | Egypt |
Frequently asked questions
Which date has the most public holidays in May 2026?
Friday, 1 May 2026, when 160 countries have a public holiday.
How many different public holidays are there in May 2026?
125 distinct date and holiday combinations across all countries in our data.
Are regional holidays included?
No. This page lists only holidays that apply in the whole country. Regional holidays are shown on each country's page.