There are four bank holidays to come before August
The Government has confirmed the remaining bank holidays the UK will observe this year.
While different UK nations frequently have varying bank holiday dates, some remain consistent across the board. For example, the recent Easter weekend brought two bank holidays on Good Friday, April 3, and Easter Monday, April 6, for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland, however, does not recognise Easter Monday as a bank holiday. That said, the two May bank holidays – Early May bank holiday and Spring bank holiday on May 4 and May 25 respectively – will be acknowledged across all four nations of the UK.
For England and Wales, the May bank holidays will be the last until August. Other parts of the UK, however, have additional dates to look forward to before the eighth month of the year.
Scotland will mark a one-off bank holiday in June, celebrating its national team’s qualification for the World Cup.
Buckingham Palace announced 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.”
Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, Monday, July 13, marks the Battle of the Boyne bank holiday. The following bank holidays after these will fall on Monday, August 3, when Scotland celebrates its Summer bank holiday, while the remainder of the UK, that is England, Wales and Northern Ireland, will mark their Summer bank holiday on Monday, August 25.
UK bank holidays in May, June and July
- Monday, May 4 – Early May bank holiday – England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
- Monday, May 25 – Spring bank holiday – England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
- Monday, June 15 – World Cup bank holiday – Scotland only
- Monday, July 13 – Battle of the Boyne (substitute day) – Northern Ireland only
