National holidays listings for the major nations of the world, links for further information. Travelling during a national holidays will affect prices of air travel.

National Holidays

Listed below are the national holiday dates of some major world nations, use the links provided to find out more specific holidays for each nation or information regarding other countires.

National holidays should be taken into consideration when travelling anywhere around the world

Australia
Australia Day January 26 (every year)
celebrates the first settlement by the British lead by captain Arthur Phillip (1788).

Austria
National Day October 26 (every year)
also celebrates the end of USSR occupation in 1955.

Belgium
Independence Day July 21 (every year)
celebrates the 1831 separation from the Netherlands, as well as the formal establishment of the kingdom. Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg was crowned and supported the constitution drawn up by National Congress during the national holidays.

Canada
Monday August 1 2003 (the date changes according to the year)

China
National Day October 1 and October 2 (every year)

France
Bastille Day July 14 (every year)

Germany
National Day October 3 (every year)

Greece
Independence Day March 25 (every year)
national holidays celebrating uprise against the Ottoman rule in 1821.

Ireland
St Patrick's Day March 17 (every year)

India
Republic Day January 26 (every year)

Italy
Liberation Day April 25 (every year)

Netherlands
Queen's Birthday April 30 (every year)
Queen Beatrix became queen when her mother, Queen Juliana, abdicated on this date in 1980.

Poland
Independence Day November 11 (every year)
national holidays celebrating independence recovered in 1918 after over a century of being split between Russia, Prussia, Austria.

Portugal
National Day June 10 (every year)

Russia
National Day June 12 (every year)

Spain
National Day October 12 (every year)

Switzerland
National Day Confederation day August 1 (every year)

Turkey
Republic Day October 29 (every year)

United States of America
Independence Day July 4 (every year)
Commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Fourth of July national holidays is traditionally celebrated publicly with parades and pageants, patriotic speeches, and organized firing of guns and cannons and displays of fireworks.

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