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Holidays on a date

GET/v1/holidays/on

Every country that has a public holiday on the day asked (today when left out), with the holiday's name in English and in the country's own language.

On every plan, Free includedKey requiredJSON or CSVCached until the next release

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
dateoptional	date query	A day (today when left out for holidays, the newest day held for rates) e.g. 2026-12-25

Request

# Every country with a public holiday on one day
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/on" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/on", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.TOURISM_API_KEY }
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Tourism API ${res.status}`);
const { meta, data } = await res.json();
console.log(meta.data_as_of, data);

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/on",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["TOURISM_API_KEY"]},
    timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
body = r.json()
print(body["meta"]["data_as_of"], body["data"])

$ch = curl_init("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/on");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ["X-API-Key: " . getenv("TOURISM_API_KEY")],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
print_r($body["data"]);

Your API key

Ready

Example response

{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "req_d3e1fea092",
        "data_as_of": "2026-10-21T17:42:32Z",
        "count": 3,
        "date": "2026-10-21",
        "weekday": "Wednesday",
        "countries": 3
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "country": "BI",
            "country_name": "Burundi",
            "name": "Commemoration of the Assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye",
            "local_name": "Commémoration de l'Assassinat du Président Melchior Ndadaye",
            "national": true
        },
        {
            "country": "BT",
            "country_name": "Bhutan",
            "name": "Dassain",
            "local_name": "ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ།",
            "national": true
        },
        {
            "country": "NP",
            "country_name": "Nepal",
            "name": "Ekadashi (Dashain)",
            "local_name": "एकादशी (दशैं)",
            "national": true
        }
    ]
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Example
country	string	BI
country_name	string	Burundi
name	string	Commemoration of the Assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye
local_name	string	Commémoration de l'Assassinat du Président Melchior Ndadaye
national	boolean	true