🗓️ What is Public Holiday Countdown?
Public Holiday Countdown gives you instant, live countdowns to public holidays in over 40 countries. Whether you want to know how many days until Christmas in the UK, Eid al-Fitr in Saudi Arabia, Diwali in India, or Golden Week in Japan — we have it covered.
The site automatically detects your location and switches to the right country and language the moment you open it. No settings needed. No accounts. No fuss.
Auto-detects your country
Opens instantly in your local language with holidays for your country. Supports 40+ nations from Japan to Jordan.
Live countdowns
Days, hours, minutes and seconds — ticking in real time. Never miss a public holiday again.
Going Abroad checker
Planning a trip? Enter your destination and travel dates to instantly see if any public holidays fall during your stay.
Light & dark mode
A warm sunny theme by default, with a beautiful dark starfield mode for night browsing — one tap to switch.
Works on any device
Fully responsive — looks great on mobile, tablet, and desktop. No app download required.
Private & lightweight
No account needed. No tracking beyond standard analytics. Just open and go.
🌐 Languages Supported
The entire site — headings, labels, date formats, and results — is displayed in the language of the country you select. We currently support:
🗺️ Countries & Territories
We cover public holidays specific to each country — not just generic international days. National holidays, religious observances, regional celebrations — all included.
⚙️ How It Works
Public Holiday Countdown is a lightweight, single-page web application built entirely with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. There is no backend server — everything runs directly in your browser.
- Holiday dates are calculated locally, including moveable feasts like Easter (using the Gregorian algorithm), Pentecost, and Corpus Christi
- Your location is detected via a brief, anonymous call to ipapi.co — we do not store this data
- The Going Abroad checker cross-references your travel dates with public holiday data for any supported destination
- All countdowns update every second, in real time
- The site is served via a global CDN, so it loads fast wherever you are
💡 Our Mission
We built Public Holiday Countdown because we travel — and we kept getting caught out by unexpected public holidays abroad. Shops shut. Banks closed. Transport stopped. A simple tool that just tells you "are there any public holidays during my trip?" didn't really exist in a way that covered this many countries.
So we made one. It's free, it works offline after the first load, it supports your language, and it never asks you to sign up for anything.
We plan to keep adding countries, improving holiday accuracy, and expanding the Going Abroad feature. If you have a suggestion, we'd love to hear from you.
Ready to count down?
See how many days until your next holiday — wherever you are in the world.
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