Which weekday do public holidays land on?

Distribution by weekday, 2026

Spread evenly, each of the seven weekdays would hold 14.3%.

A fixed date falls on the same weekday in two hundred countries

1 January is a Thu and that single day is a public holiday in 197 countries. 25 December is a Fri and covers 178. Those two dates alone fill 43.7% of Thu and 28.8% of Fri.

Not every country has its weekend on Saturday and Sunday

So the weekend overlap is counted against each country’s own weekend rather than a fixed Saturday–Sunday. Those weekend days are not in the data — the internationalisation tables in the browser and in Node supply them.

The weekend overlap swings from year to year

A holiday landing on a Saturday or Sunday is a day off lost. Fixed dates shift one weekday each year, so the whole world takes that loss in the same year.

How many weekdays each name spans in 2026

A name spanning one weekday has that weekday written into its definition — Good Friday is always a Friday. Seven means every country picks its own date.

Countries with no weekend overlap in 2026

Only countries with 8 holidays or more — with two or three, zero happens by luck.

#	Country	On a weekend
1	Anguilla	0 / 14
2	Bermuda	0 / 10
3	Colombia	0 / 19
4	United Kingdom	0 / 14
5	Isle of Man	0 / 10
6	Japan	0 / 16
7	Malawi	0 / 11
8	New Zealand	0 / 22
9	United States	0 / 12
10	British Virgin Islands	0 / 14
11	United States Virgin Islands	1 / 17
12	Argentina	1 / 16
13	Northern Mariana Islands	1 / 15
14	Mali	1 / 14
15	Dominican Republic	1 / 13
16	Panama	1 / 13
17	Antigua and Barbuda	1 / 12
18	Dominica	1 / 12
19	Gibraltar	1 / 12
20	Monaco	1 / 12

Countries losing most to weekends in 2026

#	Country	On a weekend
1	Slovenia	8 / 15
2	Germany	9 / 19
3	Kazakhstan	6 / 13
4	DR Congo	5 / 11
5	Syria	4 / 9
6	Benin	6 / 14
7	Italy	6 / 14
8	Poland	6 / 14
9	Chile	7 / 17
10	Eritrea	4 / 10
11	Finland	6 / 15
12	Burkina Faso	5 / 13
13	Hungary	5 / 13
14	Spain	11 / 29
15	Åland Islands	6 / 16
16	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	3 / 8
17	Sweden	6 / 16
18	Congo	4 / 11
19	Costa Rica	4 / 11
20	Luxembourg	4 / 11

Most Monday holidays in 2026

These are the countries that move a holiday to Monday when it lands on a weekend.

#	Country	Count
1	New Zealand	13 / 22
2	Australia	12 / 20
3	Colombia	12 / 19
4	United Kingdom	9 / 14
5	Puerto Rico	9 / 21
6	Anguilla	8 / 14
7	Canada	7 / 19
8	Japan	7 / 16
9	British Virgin Islands	7 / 14
10	Zambia	7 / 16
11	Albania	6 / 13
12	Argentina	6 / 16
13	Ireland	6 / 10
14	Isle of Man	6 / 10
15	Cayman Islands	6 / 11
16	United States Virgin Islands	6 / 17
17	Antigua and Barbuda	5 / 12
18	Gibraltar	5 / 12
19	South Korea	5 / 18
20	Montserrat	5 / 11