The UK has an average of eight public holidays a year. This year has been an exception, with Bank Holidays added to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee as well as her funeral last month.
With King Charles III's Coronation date being announced as May 6, it remains to be seen whether there will be a Bank Holiday to mark the occasion. In 1953, when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, June 2 was named 'Coronation Day' and a Bank Holiday was declared, our colleagues over at Hull Live report.
The Palace has yet to announce whether there will be a Bank Holiday for the King's Coronation. The next Bank Holiday will be on Monday, December 26 - Boxing Day. That's because the Bank Holiday for Christmas Day, which falls on a Sunday this year, is moving to Tuesday, December 27.
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The first Bank Holiday in 2023 will be on Monday January 2 - a substitute day for New Year's Day, which also falls on a Sunday. There will then be no Bank Holiday until Good Friday, which falls on April 7.
Here is a full list of all the confirmed bank holidays for the remainder of 2022 and 2023:
Bank Holidays 2022
- Monday, 26 December - Boxing Day
- Tuesday, 27 December - Christmas Day (substitute day)
Bank Holidays 2023
- Monday, 2 January - New Year's Day (substitute day)
- Friday, 7 April - Good Friday
- Monday, 10 April - Easter Monday
- Monday, 1 May - Early May bank holiday
- Monday, 29 May - Spring bank holiday
- Monday, 28 August - Summer bank holiday
- Monday, 25 December - Christmas Day
- Tuesday, 26 December - Boxing Day
Substitute days mark holidays that fall on the weekend, meaning the bank holiday skips forward to the next working day. Meanwhile, spring and summer bank holidays move dates each year depending on when the relevant Mondays fall in the calendar.
The first Bank Holiday was held in 1871, when Sir John Lubbock, a banker, added four days to the two common law holidays (Good Friday and Christmas Day) that were already observed. The new holidays were Easter Monday, Whit Monday (later to be changed to the Spring Bank Holiday), the first Monday in August (now moved to the end of the month) and Boxing Day. The were called bank holidays because banks tended to close.
