Every UK bank holiday to add to your calendar in 2026

As individuals begin returning to the office in 2026 after a well-deserved Christmas break, it’s solely pure that one query is on everybody’s thoughts: when is the following bank holiday?

Last 12 months noticed record-breaking temperatures in the course of the August bank holiday, with a scorching 29.1C recorded in the village of Hawarden in Flintshire. Many additionally hoped the federal government would concern an additional bank holiday when the Lionesses gained the Euros in the summer season. Although we didn’t get to get pleasure from that further time off, the trophy-hoarding squad obtained a heat welcome with a reception at Downing Street.

This 12 months will see quite a lot of different occasions, as the lads’s soccer World Cup goes to the United States, whereas the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are set to happen collectively between town of Milan and the city of Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Alps.

It seems to be unlikely that the UK will see an additional bank holiday, after Brits obtained a time off in 2023 for King Charles III’s coronation ceremony which happened at Westminster Abbey, however there stay plenty of dates that can go in the diary.

When is the following bank holiday?

Northern Ireland will expertise a bank holiday on 17 March for St Patrick’s Day, whereas the remainder of the United Kingdom will get a time off for Good Friday on 3 April.

Here’s an entire listing of this 12 months’s confirmed bank holiday dates throughout the United Kingdom.

England and Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland