Full list of UK bank holidays with four to come before August

Full list of UK bank holidays with four to come before AugustSchools close on bank holidays, with most people also being given the day off workCommentsNewsKate Lally Content Editor10:45, 16 Apr 2026Updated 10:52, 16 Apr 2026View ImageMost people get bank holidays off work(Image: PA/Aaron Chrown)The remaining bank holidays the UK will commemorate this year have been confirmed by the Government.‌While different UK nations often have varying bank holiday dates, some remain the same. For instance the recent Easter weekend saw two bank holidays on Good Friday, April 3, and Easter Monday, April 6, for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But Scotland does not have a bank holiday for Easter Monday. That said, the two May bank holidays - Early May bank holiday and Spring bank holiday, May 4 and May 25 respectively - will be observed across all four parts of the UK.‌For England and Wales the bank holidays in May will be the last before August. However other parts of the UK have more to come before the eighth month of the year.‌Scotland will observe a one-off bank holiday in June, to celebrate its team qualifying for the World Cup. Buckingham Palace declared in February: "To mark the achievement of Scotland's men's football team competing at the Fifa World Cup for the first time in 28 years, we consider it desirable that Monday, the fifteenth day of June in the year 2026 should be a bank holiday in Scotland."Now, therefore, we, in pursuance of section 1(3) of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, do hereby appoint Monday, the fifteenth day of June in the year 2026 to be a bank holiday in Scotland."And in Northern Ireland Monday, July 13, marks the Battle of the Boyne bank holiday. The next bank holidays after these will take place on Monday, August 3, when Scotland marks its Summer bank holiday, and elsewhere the rest of the UK, namely England, Wales and Northern Ireland, will observe their Summer bank holiday on Monday, August 25.‌Full list of...