Every UK financial institution vacation so as to add to your calendar in 2026 | EUROtoday
As individuals begin returning to the workplace in 2026 after a well-deserved Christmas break, it’s solely pure that one query is on everybody’s thoughts: when is the subsequent financial institution vacation?
Last 12 months noticed record-breaking temperatures in the course of the August financial institution vacation, with a scorching 29.1C recorded within the village of Hawarden in Flintshire. Many additionally hoped the federal government would situation an additional financial institution vacation when the Lionesses gained the Euros in the summertime. Although we didn’t get to get pleasure from that further time off, the trophy-hoarding squad obtained a heat welcome with a reception at Downing Street.
This 12 months will see various different occasions, as the boys’s soccer World Cup goes to the United States, whereas the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are set to happen collectively between town of Milan and the city of Cortina d’Ampezzo within the Alps.
It appears to be like unlikely that the UK will see an additional financial institution vacation, after Brits obtained a time off in 2023 for King Charles III’s coronation ceremony which happened at Westminster Abbey, however there stay loads of dates that may go within the diary.

When is the subsequent financial institution vacation?
Northern Ireland will expertise a financial institution vacation on 17 March for St Patrick’s Day, whereas the remainder of the United Kingdom will get a time off for Good Friday on 3 April.
Here’s a whole listing of this 12 months’s confirmed financial institution vacation dates throughout the United Kingdom.
England and Wales
- Friday, 3 April – Good Friday
- Monday, 6 April – Easter Monday
- Monday, 4 May – Early May financial institution vacation
- Monday, 25 May – Spring financial institution vacation
- Monday, 31 August – Summer financial institution vacation
- Friday, 25 December – Christmas Day
- Monday, 28 December – Boxing Day (substitute day)
Scotland
- Friday, 3 April – Good Friday
- Monday, 4 May – Early May financial institution vacation
- Monday, 25 May – Spring financial institution vacation
- Monday, 3 August – Summer financial institution vacation
- Monday, 30 November – St Andrew’s Day
- Friday, 25 December – Christmas Day
- Monday, 28 December – Boxing Day (substitute day)
Northern Ireland
- Tuesday, 17 March – St Patrick’s Day
- Friday, 3 April – Good Friday
- Monday, 6 April – Easter Monday
- Monday, 4 May – Early May financial institution vacation
- Monday, 25 May – Spring financial institution vacation
- Monday, 13 July – Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen’s Day) (substitute day)
- Monday, 31 August – Summer financial institution vacation
- Friday, 25 December – Christmas Day
- Monday, 28 December – Boxing Day (substitute day)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-bank-holiday-2026-dates-how-many-b2895114.html