Uk Bank Holidays 2025/2026. Also check out our patron saints, religious holidays and awareness days. Formally recognised as holidays since 1871 (following an act of parliament), bank holidays were originally days when banks closed their doors.

May’s two bank holidays will be on monday, may 5 and monday, may 26, while the summer bank holiday, which falls towards the end of the school summer holidays, will be on. All the bank holidays (public holidays) in england and wales in 2026.