Holiday calendar in the Netherlands in AugustHolland has the second (after Mexico) lowest number of public holidays in the world. However, that doesn’t stop the Dutch from being one of the five happiest nations (according to the 2019 Happiness Report). Quality over quantity, as they say! Here is everything you want to know about the Dutch holidays. Help us List of the holidays in the Netherlands for 2024-2025 yearAugust 2024Saturday 3 August - Clown Day in Netherlands (In Netherlands, they call it Internationale clown dag) Monday 19 August - Day of Hearts or Hertjesdag in Haarlem and Amsterdam (is celebrated on the third Monday in August) September 2024Friday 6 September - Bonaire Flag Day (The flag of Bonaire was adopted in 1984) Saturday 14 September - Open Monumentendag in Netherlands (second weekend of September) Tuesday 17 September - Prinsjesdag in Netherlands or Budget Day (celebrated on the third Tuesday in September) October 2024Thursday 3 October - Festival in Leiden, Netherlands (Leidens Ontzet - tradition since 1886 in honor of the end of the siege in 1574) November 2024Monday 11 November - Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching", on 11-11, at 11:11. Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries); Sint Maarten's Day (St. Martin's Day: Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands) Saturday 16 November - Statia Day, Sint Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands) December 2024Thursday 5 December - Sinterklaas in the Netherlands (It is celebrated on the evening before Sinterklaas’ birthday on December 5, especially in families with little children) Friday 6 December - St Nicholas Day (International. The St. Nicholas/Santa Claus leaves little presents in children's shoesl) Monday 16 December - Koninkrijksdag or Kingdom Day (Aruba, Netherlands) Thursday 26 December - Second day of Christmas (Western Christianity. Public holiday in the Netherlands, Poland, Norway) January 2025Saturday 18 January - National Tulip Day in Netherlands (The third Saturday of January) February 2025March 2025Saturday 1 March - World Compliment Day (appeared after many successful editions of “National Compliment Day” in the Netherlands) Tuesday 4 March - National Pancake Day in Netherlands (Nationale Pannenkoekdag - Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) Wednesday 19 March - Engineer's Day in Netherlands (Third Wednesday of March) April 2025Tuesday 1 April - Limestone night in the municipality of Briel, Netherlands (the Kalknacht commemorates the victory over the Spaniards of the Duke of Alba in 1572); Easter Monday (Påskedag in Norway) Saturday 19 April - Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States) Sunday 27 April - King's Day (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten. Celebrated on April 26 if April 27 falls on a Sunday) May 2025Sunday 4 May - Remembrance Day in the Netherlands (it was observed for the first time on May 4, 1946. Every year, people dedicate two minutes of silence at 8pm [local time] on May 4 to pay their respects to soldiers and civilians who died during World War II, as well as other military conflicts and peace-keeping missions) Monday 5 May - Liberation Day in the Netherlands (Soon after the Second World War, it was decided that Liberation Day should be held on 5 May, the date of the German army’s defeat) Friday 9 May - Christ's Ascension (or Kristi Himmelfartsdag in Norway) Monday 12 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe) Tuesday 20 May - Whit Monday (celebrated on the day after Pentecost) June 2025Wednesday 4 June - Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Day in Netherlands (Opa en Oma Dag has been celebrated since 2004) Monday 16 June - Father's Day (Ñelebrated on the third Sunday of June øò Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kenya, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, United Kingdom) July 2025Saturday 5 July - Comic Sans Day (Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation) Notes:There has been some debate over whether the Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Suikerfeest in Dutch) should be a national holiday. 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