Bank holidays 2028 – United Kingdom
The 6 bank holidays of 2028 in United Kingdom, with the law behind each one and the weekday it falls on.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 January | Monday | New Year’s Day Substitute day | Public holiday |
| 14 April | Friday | Good Friday | Public holiday |
| 1 May | Monday | Early May bank holiday | Public holiday |
| 29 May | Monday | Spring bank holiday | Public holiday |
| 25 December | Monday | Christmas Day | Public holiday |
| 26 December | Tuesday | Boxing Day | Public holiday |
Holidays in the year
6
Holidays falling on a weekend
0
Working days
254
The United Kingdom has no single list: England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each have their own bank holidays. This page shows only the days that are bank holidays in all three.
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States and regions
How to read these numbers
How movable feasts are worked out
Carnival, Good Friday, Corpus Christi and other Easter-linked dates are not picked at random: they are counted a fixed number of days before or after Easter Sunday, which itself follows the Easter computus (first Sunday after the first full moon after the March equinox). In 2028 Easter falls on 16 April 2028.
Where this list comes from
The legal basis cited for United Kingdom is gov.uk bank-holidays.json, an official source. This page is confirmed against an independent source.
What a "discretionary day" is not
A discretionary day is not a holiday: closing is a decision each office, business or school makes for itself, not a legal requirement. Two places in the same city can decide differently on the same day, which is why this kind of date is listed separately on this page.
Understanding the 2028 holiday calendar of United Kingdom
How many of United Kingdom's 2028 holidays fall on a weekday?
Of United Kingdom's 6 effective holidays in 2028, 6 fall on a weekday and 0 fall on a Saturday or Sunday — 0% of the calendar. Most fall on a weekday, which is the scenario that actually keeps people out of work: anyone planning a trip or a day off gets more real dates to choose from.
Which month has the most holidays in United Kingdom in 2028?
May is the busiest month for holidays in United Kingdom in 2028, with 2 dates. February, March, June, July, August, September, October and November have no effective holiday at all this year. No single month dominates the calendar: the year's holidays are fairly spread out.
Is there a bridge day to take in United Kingdom in 2028?
No effective holiday of United Kingdom in 2028 falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, so this year has none of the classic bridge days that turn one day of leave into four days off in a row. That does not rule out a long weekend: a holiday right next to Friday or Monday already gives three days off without spending any leave at all.
Does United Kingdom have more or fewer holidays in 2028 than in 2027?
In 2027, the year before this one, United Kingdom had 6 effective holidays, against 6 in 2028. The total did not change, but the civil calendar shifts by seven days a week, so the same fixed dates can fall on different weekdays — what really changes is how many turn into real time off.
Why do United Kingdom's movable dates shift every year?
In 2028, Easter falls on 16 April 2028, and every movable feast on United Kingdom's calendar is counted from that date: Good Friday. Easter has no fixed date because it follows the Easter computus, a fourth-century rule that ties it to the first Sunday after the first full moon after the March equinox — which is why it ranges between 22 March and 25 April, dragging every holiday counted from it along with it.
Words on this page
National holiday and regional holiday
A national holiday applies across the whole country, set by federal law; a regional one (state, provincial or municipal) applies only inside that jurisdiction, under its own law. The same date can be a day off in one city and an ordinary working day a hundred kilometres away — which is why this page always states each date's scope.
Working day
A day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or an effective holiday (discretionary days and bank holidays do not count here). It is the unit used for legal deadlines, contracts and payroll, so the year's total of working days changes with that place's holiday calendar.
Standard definition by Convenção OIT 52/1936 (descanso semanal e feriados) · Working day
Movable holiday
A holiday that does not fall on a fixed civil-calendar date because it is counted from Easter (Carnival, Good Friday, Corpus Christi) or follows an "nth weekday of the month" rule (such as US Thanksgiving). The date shifts every year within a known range.
Easter computus
The algorithm that fixes Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the March equinox, a rule set at the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). Because it depends on the Moon, the date ranges between 22 March and 25 April, and every movable Christian holiday is counted from it.
Standard definition by Meeus/Butcher algorithm (Gregorian calendar) · Easter computus
Discretionary day off
A day on which public offices may close, but closing is not required by law — each agency, business or school decides for itself. It does not count as a holiday for labour-law purposes, which is why this page lists it separately from the table.
ISO 8601 week
The week numbering of the international ISO 8601 standard: the week starts on Monday, and week 1 of the year is the one containing January's first Thursday. Under that rule, the last days of December can belong to week 1 of the next year, and the first days of January can belong to the previous year's last week.
Standard definition by ISO 8601 · ISO 8601 week
Legal source
- gov.uk bank-holidays.json · Open Government Licence v3.0 · Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. · Checked on 7 October 2026
snapshot da fonte oficial · gov.uk bank-holidays.json