Every public holiday, everywhere · one open wire
Is Monday a holiday in Japan?
A daily human question, answered from one open database: pick a country, get its whole year — local names first, nationwide or regional, long weekends worked out, today marked. Most of the world’s countries ride the wire; the page says plainly where its knowledge ends.
And beside the wire, the computus: Easter computed on this page for any year — the actual 16th-century arithmetic, drawn step by step — with the Orthodox date and every feast that hangs off it. That section needs no wire at all.
The register
One country, one year.
The long weekends
Runs of days off, and the single day of leave that unlocks each longer one.
This week on Earth
Who is celebrating right now.
The wire’s worldwide list of public holidays in the coming days, grouped by date.
Asking the wire…
The computus · no wire at all
Easter, computed before your eyes.
The date of Easter is not looked up anywhere — it is arithmetic, fixed in 1582 and reduced to a dozen integer operations. Type a year; the algorithm runs here, every step shown.
Western (Gregorian)
Orthodox (Julian computus)
The arithmetic, drawn
The feasts that hang off it
Method
One wire, one algorithm.
The “This week on Earth” list shows the public holidays coming up in the next few days in every country the Nager.Date database covers, grouped by date, with today marked and each holiday’s local name beside its English one. Pick a country and a year to see all of its public holidays, with the long weekends they make worked out. Nager.Date is an open-source holiday database covering most of the world’s countries and territories, a few years either side of now, and it lists public holidays only: not every religious feast, observance or regional day off, which is why no single number answers how many holidays there are in the world. Easter is computed on the page for any year from 1583 to 4099, Western and Orthodox, and the feasts that are fixed offsets from it follow.
The wire, and its limits
Country data comes browser-direct from the open-source Nager.Date database (date.nager.at) — keyless and CORS-open, verified before this page was built. It covers most countries and territories, public holidays only, a few years each way — a database, not a promise: laws change and regional observance is messy, so check officially before booking anything on it. Local names are shown first because that is what the day is actually called.
The computus is this page’s own
Western Easter uses the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm — the exact integer arithmetic, valid 1583–4099, shown step by step with what each quantity means (the epact is the moon’s age; the rest finds the next Sunday). The Orthodox date runs the older Julian computus and shifts it onto the modern calendar by the century drift. The dependent feasts are fixed offsets from Easter and are labelled with them.