EU Holidays Calendar

Public holidays for EU countries plus the UK, Switzerland and Norway, and school holidays, in one dataset. Use it for payroll, rotas, bookings and shop calendars.

General information for planning. Confirm a day off before you lock payroll or a booking.

Who it is for

HR and payroll teams, people who schedule shifts, booking desks, and shops that sell across the EU, the UK, Switzerland and Norway and need the next public holiday without copying it from a website.

What you get

• One row per holiday. A single day has date, startDate and endDate. A school holiday that covers several days has startDate and endDate, and date is empty.
• The country, and the region or subdivision when the holiday is not nationwide.
• The local name and the English name, when the source has them.
• The type: public, school, optional or bank.
• Whether it is a national day off. A regional holiday, a half day, a school holiday and an optional day are not a national day off. In the Netherlands, Good Friday is an official public holiday and not a general day off. Liberation Day (5 May) is a national day off only in years divisible by 5. In Norway, 24 December (Julaften) stays a bank holiday and is not a national day off. The note on the row explains this.
• United Kingdom bank holidays as one row per division: GB-ENG for England and Wales, GB-SCT for Scotland and GB-NIR for Northern Ireland. Wales shares the England and Wales list, and the note on a GB-ENG row says so. nationalDayOff is true only when that date is a bank holiday in all three divisions. UK is accepted and stored as GB.
• Swiss public holidays that are not nationwide, with the canton code in region, for example CH-ZH. A district or municipality in the source is stored under its canton. nationalDayOff is true only when the source marks the holiday as nationwide. The English name for 1 August is Swiss National Day. The local name stays as the source gives it.
• Dutch school holidays for north (noord), middle (midden) and south (zuid). A holiday for the whole country has an empty region.
• School holidays for other countries when a list is published. German school holidays are one row per state code, such as DE-BY. Belgian school holidays are one row per community code: BE-NL, BE-FR or BE-DE. Switzerland and Norway are included only when a school holiday list is published for them.
• An optional .ics file per country in the key-value store. The output tab links those files. The run summary lists the keys, such as ICS-NL.
• A clear note in the run summary when a source does not respond. Rows from the source that did respond are still saved.

For Dutch school holidays, Dates advisory is true when the ministry publishes advice dates. A school may close on different days. Summer and Christmas dates are the fixed ones.

Tutorial

1. Leave Countries as NL, or add the markets you plan for. Clear the list for the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Greece is GR. The UK is GB (UK is accepted). Switzerland is CH. Norway is NO. You can ask for up to 30 countries. An unsupported code is skipped. The summary gives the count and does not repeat the code.
2. Leave Years empty for this year, or set 2026 and 2027. You can ask for up to 6 years.
3. Leave Include school holidays on. For the Netherlands, pick Dutch school regions, or leave all three selected.
4. Leave Language as EN. The row still keeps the local name. The calendar file uses the language you set for the event title.
5. Turn on Save calendar files if you want one .ics file per country.
6. Run the Actor. Open the Holidays view. The OUTPUT record says how many rows were saved, and lists the calendar keys when you asked for files.
7. Schedule it if you want a standing feed for the year ahead. Rows that were not saved are not charged.

Example input

{
  "countries": ["NL"],
  "years": ["2026"],
  "includeSchoolHolidays": true,
  "nlRegions": ["noord", "midden", "zuid"],
  "language": "EN",
  "saveIcs": true,
  "maxRows": 1000
}

Example output

One public holiday:

{
  "itemType": "holiday",
  "date": "2026-01-01",
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-01-01",
  "country": "NL",
  "countryName": "Netherlands",
  "region": "",
  "nameLocal": "Nieuwjaarsdag",
  "nameEnglish": "New Year's Day",
  "nameChosen": "New Year's Day",
  "type": "public",
  "nationalDayOff": true,
  "note": "",
  "halfDay": false,
  "datesAdvisory": false,
  "source": "OpenHolidays API",
  "licence": "ODbL-1.0",
  "attribution": "Contains data from OpenHolidays API, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. A database derived from it must also be shared under the ODbL 1.0."
}

One Dutch school holiday:

{
  "itemType": "holiday",
  "date": null,
  "startDate": "2026-10-10",
  "endDate": "2026-10-18",
  "country": "NL",
  "countryName": "Netherlands",
  "region": "noord",
  "nameLocal": "Herfstvakantie",
  "nameEnglish": "Autumn holiday",
  "type": "school",
  "nationalDayOff": false,
  "note": "",
  "datesAdvisory": true,
  "source": "Rijksoverheid",
  "licence": "CC0-1.0",
  "attribution": "Rijksoverheid, CC0 1.0."
}

A regional public holiday has the subdivision in region, for example DE-BY or CH-ZH, and nationalDayOff is false. A UK bank holiday uses GB-ENG, GB-SCT or GB-NIR.

Pricing

You pay a small fee when the run starts, then a fee for each holiday row that is saved. A calendar file is a separate fee, and only when you turn Save calendar files on. The dataset itself is not charged again.

What	Price
Run start	$0.00005
Holiday row	$0.001
Calendar file, one country	$0.002

Rows past Max rows, and rows a source did not return, are not charged. A calendar file that was not saved is not charged.

Examples

• Ten holiday rows: 10 × $0.001 = $0.010, plus the $0.00005 start fee.
• Three calendar files: 3 × $0.002 = $0.006, plus the start fee.
• A run that saves nothing: $0.00005.

A run for the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, for one year, with school holidays, is usually a few hundred rows. At $0.001 a row, 200 rows are $0.200, plus the start fee. German school holidays are one row per state code, so that country adds more rows than a single national list.

Use Max rows and Apify's maximum cost per run to cap a single run. The pricing tab on the store is the price you are charged if it ever differs.

Scheduling and integrations

Save a task and schedule it when you plan the next year. The dataset can go to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Make or Zapier, or you can read it from the Apify API. The calendar file can be imported into a calendar app. The rows are small enough to pass to an AI agent over MCP.

Sources and licences

Public holidays are taken from the OpenHolidays API. That database is under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. You may use it, including in a commercial product, if you keep the attribution on the row. If you publish a database derived from it, that database stays under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.

Some public holiday rows come from Nager.Date, under the MIT licence. Copyright 2016 nager.at. The source column on each row says which.

United Kingdom bank holidays come from GOV.UK, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The row source credits GOV.UK. England and Wales are GB-ENG. The note on those rows says that Wales shares the list. Scotland is GB-SCT. Northern Ireland is GB-NIR. A year that GOV.UK does not list yet is taken from Nager.Date. On that fallback list, St. Stephen's Day is stored as Boxing Day, and for Norway as Second Day of Christmas. Scotland's 2 January moves to the following Monday when it falls on a Saturday, and to the Tuesday when it falls on a Sunday. Other substitute days in a fallback year can still differ from the GOV.UK list.

Dutch school holidays come from the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid), under CC0 1.0. Attribution is not required. The row names the source anyway. School holidays for other countries, including Switzerland and Norway, come from the OpenHolidays API when it publishes them.

This Actor is not affiliated with those publishers.

No personal data

This Actor does not collect personal data.

• It asks only for countries, years and a language. It does not request names, contact details or account numbers.
• Notes and comments that sometimes sit next to a holiday are not stored.
• Raw responses are not stored.
• Logs and error messages do not include personal data or the addresses that were called.

FAQ

Why does a school holiday have two dates? It runs from the start date through the end date, both inclusive. A one-day public holiday has the same start and end, and date is set.

Why is a region filled in? Some public holidays apply only in part of a country. Dutch school holidays differ for north, middle and south. Swiss holidays are mostly cantonal, so the region is the canton code. UK bank holidays always name the division. A nationwide holiday outside the UK has an empty region. In the UK each division still has its own row, and nationalDayOff is true only when all three divisions share that date.

What if a source is down? The run summary says which part failed. Rows from the part that responded are still saved. If a source fails and nothing could be saved, the run finishes with that note and no holiday rows are charged. An unsupported country code is skipped. The summary gives the count and does not repeat the code. If none of the codes are supported, the run finishes with a note and no holiday rows are charged.

Are the Dutch autumn dates fixed? No. Autumn, spring and the extra May week are advice dates. datesAdvisory is true on those rows. Summer and Christmas are the compulsory dates.

Is Good Friday a day off in the Netherlands? It is an official public holiday, and nationalDayOff is false. Most employees work unless a contract or collective agreement says otherwise. The note on the row says this.

Is 5 May a day off in the Netherlands? Liberation Day is an official public holiday every year. nationalDayOff is true only in years divisible by 5, when many employers, including the government, give it as a paid day off. In other years it is false. The note on the row says which case applies.

Where do the figures come from? See Sources and licences above. For a binding day off, use the official calendar for that country.

Next additions

• More of the same kind.
• Broader coverage.
• Small follow-ups later.

Feedback

Missing a country or a field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.