Having a holiday is a great news for many of us especially for those working from days to nights, 7 days in a week. We get to use our own annual leaves for holidays, spend more time with family; if we want to can even take a day off to do the thing we like! But, the annual leaves we have are so limited. So, by knowing what is the right time to take your annual leaves can let you to have continuous holidays during your vacations.

Luckily, there are a number of ways to keep your holidays period long. In short, you can refer to the useful websites below to know the public holidays available in your country and plan your holidays wisely. Searching for the world public holidays database? Here are 9 useful sites to know the date of public holidays around the world.

1. Worldwide Public Holidays

A professional online database of international Public Holidays, with holidays of over 198 countries of the world including the 48 semi-autonomous territories such as Hong Kong, Macau, Gibraltar, etc. Regularly visited by calendar publishers, government agencies, banks, financial institutions, logistics companies, shipping and brokerage firms, etc.

2. List of holidays by country

You can find a list of holidays by country here where most holidays are mentioned, even some are not public holidays also listed.

3. Your Home for the Holidays

Lists of Office Holidays from countries across the world in order to helo you as a traveler to plan your meetings from time to time.

4. Holidays and Observances around the World

Besides providing world holidays information, the site also comes with Custom Calendar for you to make advanced customized calendars, Monthly Calendar to show you only month at a time and Calendar Generator to create your own calendar for any year. Create yours here.

5. World’s strangest public holidays

Some unusual or rare public holidays can be found here.

6. Holiday Times around the world

The site has Public Holidays and Bank Holidays around the World (public holidays for Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North & Central America and South America).

7. Employee holiday entitlements around the world

In this site, you can have a quick view regarding which country has the most number of employee holidays for workers around the world. We found that workers in UK (36 days per year) and Poland have most generous statutory employee holiday entitlements.

8. BANK HOLIDAYS OF THE WORLD

A useful website with full calendar of the world’s bank holidays, public holidays, and school holidays. Instead of that, elections, religious celebrations and observances date also affecting the business community.

9. National Holidays Around the World

A great resource for date and name for select national holidays in countries around the world (independence, revolution, flag, and founding days of over 100 nations).