Holiday Calendar for New Zealand in FebruaryNew Zealanders observe 10 common national public holidays a year (also known as statutory holidays) legislated by the Holidays Act 2003. Stat holidays are mostly cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays. Additionally all New Zealand’s provinces celebrate regional anniversary days also specified as public holidays. Help us List of National and Provincial stat holidays, and other observances in NZ for 2024-2025 yearFebruary 2024Saturday 3 February - Nelson Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2025. Holiday is actually the 1st of February but it is observed on the Monday closest to that date); Buller Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2025. Celebrated on the first Monday of February) Tuesday 6 February - Waitangi Day in New Zealand (Niue, New Zealand, Tokelau; celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840) March 2024Saturday 2 March - Children's Day in New Zealand (celebrated on the first Sunday in March) Sunday 10 March - Taranaki Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2023. Holiday is actually the 31st of March but it is observed on the second Monday of March. Taranaki Anniversary applies to the Taranaki Region which includes Inglewood, Waitara, Hawera, Stratford, and Eltham) Sunday 24 March - Otago Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Holiday is actually the 23rd of March but it is observed on the Monday closest to that date) April 2024Tuesday 2 April - Southland Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2024. Holiday is actually the 17th of January but it is observed on Easter Tuesday. This was decided in December 2011 by the mayors of Invercargill, Southland, and Gore districts) Wednesday 24 April - Kapyong Day (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) Thursday 25 April - Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. It commemorates the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - ANZAC - on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915) Saturday 27 April - International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April) May 2024Sunday 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) Saturday 25 May - Gospel Day in Palmerston, Cook Islands (commemorating the arrival of Christianity on this atoll) June 2024Monday 3 June - King's Birthday in New Zealand, Cook Islands, Fiji (celebrated on the first Monday in June) Saturday 15 June - Mangaia Gospel Day (Cook Islands) Sunday 16 June - National Volunteer Week in New Zealand (Held from the third Sunday in June) July 2024Monday 1 July - International Tartan Day (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events) August 2024September 2024Sunday 1 September - Random Acts of Kindness Day in New Zealand; Father's Day in Australia (also Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea is celebrated on the first Sunday of September) Tuesday 3 September - Tokehega Day (Tokelau, New Zealand) Thursday 26 September - Dominion Day (New Zealand) Monday 30 September - South Canterbury Anniversary Day in New Zealand (on the last monday of September) October 2024Monday 7 October - Vet Nurse Awareness Week in New Zealand (Starts on the first Monday in October) Sunday 13 October - No Bra Day (On this day women are encouraged to forgo wearing no bra as a means to encourage breast cancer awareness) Friday 18 October - National Sausage Day in New Zealand (celebrated on the third Friday of October) Saturday 19 October - Niue Constitution Day (in honor of the country's independence, self-governing in free association with New Zealand in 1974) Friday 25 October - Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Holiday is actually the 1st of November but it is observed on the Friday before Labour Day) Monday 28 October - Labour Day in New Zealand (Celebrated on the fourth Monday in October); New Zealand Wars Day November 2024Monday 4 November - Marlborough Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2024. Holiday is actually the 1st of November but it is observed on the first Monday after Labour Day) Tuesday 5 November - Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada); International Volunteer Managers Day Monday 11 November - Armistice Day (New Zealand, France, Belgium and Serbia. End of World War I-related observances) Friday 15 November - Canterbury Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2024. Holiday is actually the 16th of December but it is observed on the second Friday after the first Tuesday in November. This is also Christchurch Show Day. Canterbury Anniversary applies to the North and Central Canterbury Regions which include Christchurch and Ashburton) December 2024Monday 2 December - Westland Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2024. Holiday is actually the 1st of December but it is observed on the Monday closest to that date. This date can vary outside of Greymouth); Chatham Islands Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2024. Holiday is actually the 30th of November but it is observed on the Monday closest to that date) Thursday 26 December - Boxing day in Australia (also Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Kiribati, Nauru, Botswana, Ghana, Jamaica) January 2025Thursday 2 January - The second day of New Year (a holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine. New Year Holiday [Albania, Scotland], if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3) Friday 10 January - National Takai Day on the Niue (Held on the second Friday and Saturday after New Year's Day) Monday 20 January - Wellington Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Holiday is actually the 22nd of January but it is observed on the Monday closest to that date. Wellington Anniversary applies to the Wellington Province which includes Wellington, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Kapiti, Feilding, Levin and Masterton) Monday 27 January - Auckland Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2025. Holiday is actually the 29th of January but it is observed on the Monday closest to that date. Auckland Anniversary applies to the Auckland Province which includes Northland, Auckland, Waikato, King Country, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne, East Coast Regions); Northland Anniversary Day in New Zealand (Date for 2025. It is a public holiday in Northland, where it is a day off for the general population, and schools and most businesses are closed) Some holiday traditions in New ZealandSome of the holidays, like Christmas and New Year, are ’Mondayised’ . Which means that, if the holiday occurs on a weekend then it is transferred to the following Monday or Tuesday. On Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ANZAC Day, and Christmas Day there are special trading restrictions. On those days, generally only dairies, petrol stations, pharmacies, restaurants and cafes, and shops within an airport, train station, and in some very popular tourist towns may open. Even television advertising is totally banned on those days in the country. Provincial anniversary days celebrate the founding days or landing days of the first colonists of the various colonial provinces. These are only celebrated within each province, not nationwide. The actual observance days can vary within each province and is due to local custom, convenience or the proximity of seasonal events or other holidays and may differ from the official observance day. 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