Brits will get two days off as we come to the end of 2022, with final bank holidays on Monday December 26 and Tuesday December 27 as substitutes for Christmas and Boxing Day falling on the weekend.
If you're already looking forward to the bank holidays for next year, you'll be happy to know that the public holiday calendar for 2023 has not only been confirmed but we'll be getting an extra day off next year.
Here's how many bank holidays there will be next year, what they're for, when they'll be and why we're getting an additional day off.
How many UK bank holidays are there in 2023?
In England and Wales there will be a total of at nine bank holidays in 2023.
Scotland will have an extra bank holiday, taking their total to 10, while residents in Northern Ireland will get to enjoy the highest number of bank holidays with a total of 11 in 2023.
This year the UK was given two extra bank holidays, one for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations and another for the day of the Queen's funeral.
Will there be an extra bank holiday for the King's coronation?
King Charles III will be officially coronated on May 6 next year, with many wondering if we would get a day off for it.
On Sunday, November 6, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that Britons will get an extra bank holiday on Monday, May 8, 2023 two days after his coronation ceremony.
Taking this additional bank holiday into account, England and Wales will have nine bank holidays, Scotland will have 10 and Northern Ireland will have 11.
When are the 2023 bank holidays?
The first bank holiday of 2023 will be on January 2, which will act as a substitute bank holiday for New Year's Day, which falls on a Sunday.
There will also be bank holidays around Easter as well as early and late May and the usual summer bank holiday, before the final Christmas bank holidays.
The 2023 bank holidays will be on:
- Monday January 2 — Substitute for New Year's Day
- Friday April 7 — Good Friday
- Monday April 10 — Easter Monday
- Monday May 1 — Early May bank holiday
- Monday May 8 – Coronation bank holiday
- Monday 29 May — Spring bank holiday
- Monday 28 August — Summer bank holiday
- Monday 25 December — Christmas Day
- Tuesday 26 December — Boxing Day
Since 1973 Scotland has had an extra bank holiday on January 2 and this year that bank holiday will fall on January 3 instead, because there is already a New Year's Day bank holiday on January 2.
Scotland also gets an additional bank holiday on November 30 for St Andrew's Day, which was declared a bank holiday by Scottish parliament in 2006, although banks are not required to close and employers are not required by law to give employees a holiday.
However, Easter Monday is not an official bank holiday in Scotland, although some councils do claim it as one.
Meanwhile, Northern Ireland has an extra bank holiday for Saint Patrick's Day on Friday May 17 as well as another bank holiday on Wednesday July 12 to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne.
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