About
About Days Off Atlas
Days Off Atlas answers one question as fast as possible: do you have to go to work tomorrow? It covers public, bank, regional and school holidays in more than 190 countries, free and open to anyone.
Who makes it
Mike McCabe — based in Madeira, working across time zones with people in several countries. The site started as a personal spreadsheet for keeping track of which office was shut on which day, and grew into a public atlas.
Why it exists
Most holiday sites are either paywalled, buried in ads, or list a country's national days and stop there. Regional and municipal days are where the real surprises live — the town that shuts for its patron saint, the two German states with an extra day in November. Those are treated as first-class here.
How it is put together
National dates come from an open holiday feed, then regional days, school terms and written country guides are layered on top by hand, country by country. Where we do not have reliable data, the page says so rather than guessing.
What it does not do yet
School term dates exist for a handful of countries so far, holiday-level writing covers the larger markets first, and Spanish is the only translated language beyond English. Coverage grows each month, and gaps are labelled on the page rather than hidden.
Get in touch
Corrections are welcome and get fixed quickly — a wrong date is worse than a missing one. A contact address will be published here shortly.
Written and maintained by Mike McCabe.
Sources and method — where our holiday dates come from