Holiday guide
Global holiday guide rooted in Netherlands's calendar, observed nationwide.
Next occurrence
April 27, 2026
Monday · Europe/Amsterdam
Next occurrence
April 27, 2026
Monday
Observed in
1 country
Current holiday dataset
Primary context
Netherlands
Public
Planning timezone
Europe/Amsterdam
UTC+02:00
Next: April 27, 2026 (Monday)
King's Day in the Netherlands is a monarch-centered civic holiday with a public atmosphere that feels more festive and street-level than most constitutional observances. In the current dataset this holiday is only listed for The Netherlands.
The date follows the royal birthday tradition and has evolved into a widely recognized national celebration with markets, orange-themed public events, and large crowds.
Its combination of royal symbolism and citywide celebration gives it a distinctive cultural profile that is easy to separate from generic state holidays.
King's Day is marked as a nationwide observance in the current Netherlands holiday data.
King's Day is tied to the monarch's birthday and can shift when the usual date would clash with Sunday observance rules. In the tracked data window, the dates land on 2025: April 26, 2026: April 27, 2027: April 27.
The current static build keeps the tracked 2025-2027 date window online for curated holiday detail pages.
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | April 26, 2025 | Saturday |
| 2026 | April 27, 2026 | Monday |
| 2027 | April 27, 2027 | Tuesday |
In Netherlands, King's Day appears in the calendar as a public holiday. People usually search this page to confirm whether the day changes working hours, whether it creates a long weekend, and how it fits with the broader holiday season in the country.
Country-specific view
Netherlands treats this as a nationwide observance.
Operational note
If you are planning travel, payroll, or customer support around King's Day, use the next-occurrence date and the local timezone block together.
King's Day works as more than a date check in Netherlands; it is a public marker that affects staffing, support coverage, school calendars, and travel timing. The next tracked occurrence is April 27, 2026, so this page acts as a quick planning note as well as a historical explainer.
King's Day also appears in other country calendars such as The Netherlands. The next recorded dates across that wider footprint include The Netherlands on April 27, 2026, which helps explain why airline schedules, payroll calendars, and global customer-support shifts often treat the holiday as a regional wave rather than a single-country event.
Netherlands plans this holiday primarily around Europe/Amsterdam. King's Day also tends to be planned alongside Good Friday, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day, because people rarely make calendar decisions about one public holiday in isolation.
King's Day is only listed for Netherlands in the current dataset.
Europe
1 country
These country rows help explain why the same holiday can matter differently across regions even when the holiday name looks familiar. The next-date column is especially useful for travel, payroll, and support teams that plan across multiple jurisdictions.
| Country | Next date | Type |
|---|---|---|
| The Netherlands | April 27, 2026 | Public |
King's Day falls on April 27, 2026 (Monday) in 2026.
King's Day is tied to the monarch's birthday and can shift when the usual date would clash with Sunday observance rules. In the tracked data window, the dates land on 2025: April 26, 2026: April 27, 2027: April 27.
King's Day is listed as a public holiday in Netherlands and is marked as nationwide.
King's Day is only listed for Netherlands in the current dataset.
Netherlands uses Europe/Amsterdam (UTC+02:00) for local planning.
King's Day is often compared with Good Friday, Christmas Day, New Year's Day on the Netherlands calendar.
