Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
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Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day  
March 21 Good Friday*
March 23 Easter  Sunday
March 24 Easter Monday
April 30 Queen's Day (Koninginnedag)
May 1 Ascension
May 1 Labour Day
May 5 Liberation Day1
May 12 Whit Monday
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 26 Boxing Day
1Liberation day, though celebrated every year, is a public holiday only every 5 years, occurring in 2000, then 2005 and so on.
*Shops remain open on Good Friday.
Weekend - Saturday, Sunday