Import and manage national holiday calendars
Updated September 20, 2026
National holiday calendars help Delivery Dates skip bank and public holidays during store, carrier or destination calculations. An administrator previews and imports the dates to keep, and the plugin stores them locally. Customer-facing pages never wait for a remote holiday service.
Preview and import national holiday calendars#
- Open WooCommerce > Delivery Dates > Holidays.
- Choose the destination country whose calendar you want to import.
- If you choose United Kingdom, select the correct UK division shown directly beneath the country selector.
- Choose the year, then select Preview holidays.
- Review the preview and select only the dates you want to keep.
- Select Import selected. The imported dates appear in All configured holidays.
The UK division control appears only for United Kingdom calendars. You do not need to maintain a separate enabled-countries list.
How destination countries affect estimates#
An imported national calendar is matched by country. For example, imported United States holidays can affect an order shipping to the United States when Apply destination holidays is enabled, but they do not affect customers shipping to the United Kingdom or another country.
The calendar for the country configured as the WooCommerce store location is also available to the store and carrier stages. Use the separate Apply carrier holidays during transit and Apply destination holidays settings under General to control those parts of the calculation.
Manage all configured holidays#
The All configured holidays table combines imported national dates, manual closures and recurring manual closures. It identifies the source, scope, country and status for each date.
- Use Remove beside one row to delete that configured holiday.
- Select several rows and choose Delete selected holidays to remove them in one action.
- To change which provider dates are enabled, preview the same country and year again, adjust the selections and import them.
Add manual and recurring holidays#
Manual entries can cover one date or a continuous range. Choose whether an entry affects the store, carrier or destination calendar. A destination-scoped entry can be limited to one country.
Enable Repeat annually only for fixed month-and-day closures such as Christmas Day. Movable holidays should come from the correct annual national calendar or be entered separately for that year. Recurring ranges can cross the end of the year.
Holiday providers and outages#
UK data is available from the official GOV.UK Bank Holidays API. United States and supported EU-country data uses the Nager.Date Community API. Locally stored records remain available if a provider is unavailable, and a failed preview or import does not clear existing data.