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UK Bank Holidays

Official UK bank holidays as JSON

💬 Social & WorkHEALTHYchecked 40 min ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

The UK government's machine-readable feed of bank holidays for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each event carries a title, date, notes and a 'bunting' flag. Served under the Open Government Licence with no key required.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 98 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
221P50 · ms
1045P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 16 ms, slowest 727 ms, most recent 221 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json

{
  "england-and-wales": {
    "division": "england-and-wales",
    "events": [
      {
        "title": "New Year’s Day",
        "date": "2019-01-01",
        "notes": "",
        "bunting": true
      }
    ]
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json"
const res = await fetch("https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 2HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /bank-holidays.json221 mschecked 40 min ago
GET/bank-holidays.jsonPROBED

Official UK bank holidays as JSON

GET/bank-holidays.json?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

UK Bank Holidays: common questions

Is UK Bank Holidays free to use?

Yes — UK Bank Holidays is a free social & work API. Free tier: Free, no key. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does UK Bank Holidays need an API key?

No — UK Bank Holidays needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call UK Bank Holidays from the browser?

Yes — UK Bank Holidays returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is UK Bank Holidays up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, UK Bank Holidays is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 221 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.