Look up real public holidays by country
Ask for a country's public holidays and Zeplik reads the real official calendar from Nager.Date, then answers with each holiday and its exact date for the year you asked about. Fixed dates a model might recall, but moving holidays like Easter and Thanksgiving, and observances that shift when they land on a weekend, drift every year, so a date recalled from memory is easily wrong for planning. Give a country by name or two-letter code and an optional year; when the country or year is not covered it says so instead of inventing a date.
The lookup is free; you pay only the normal cost of the answer, shown before you send.
How it works
Name the country and year
Ask in plain language, like 'what are the public holidays in Germany in 2026?' or 'when is Thanksgiving in Canada next year?'. A country name or a two-letter code both work; leave the year out for the current year.
Zeplik reads the official calendar
It fetches the published public-holiday list for that country and year from Nager.Date, not the model's memory, and treats the result as source data with exact dates and names.
Read the dated holiday list
The answer lists each holiday with its exact date, its local name, and whether it is nationwide, so you can set an out-of-office calendar, plan a launch around a bank holiday, or schedule delivery windows with confidence.
Worked examples
Real prompts you can open in the composer with the text ready to review. Nothing sends on its own. Swap in your own details.
Prompt: What are the public holidays in Germany in 2026?
Zeplik reads the official German calendar for 2026 and lists each holiday with its exact date, so a planning calendar is grounded rather than approximated.
Open this in ZeplikPrompt: When is Thanksgiving in Canada in 2027?
Moving holidays change date every year; Zeplik returns the real 2027 date from the published calendar instead of a remembered one that may be off by a week.
Open this in ZeplikPrompt: Which US federal holidays fall on a weekend in 2026?
It returns the dated list so you can see which observances land on a Saturday or Sunday, which matters for pay, closures, and observed days.
Open this in ZeplikWhat it can and cannot do
The lookup is precise about what it can verify and honest about its edges. Here is the plain posture.
Give a country and an optional year and Zeplik returns the full official public-holiday list with exact dates and names.
Easter, Thanksgiving, and other holidays that move each year come back with the real date for the year you asked about, not a guess.
Say 'Japan' or 'JP'; both resolve to the same supported calendar, so you do not need to remember the code.
If a country or year is outside what the source publishes, Zeplik says so rather than inventing a plausible-looking list.
This covers official public and bank holidays per country, not company-specific days off or the full religious calendar of every faith.
It flags whether a holiday is nationwide or regional, but local labor rules about observed days and holiday pay are outside what the calendar states.
Grounded, and honest by default
- It cites the exact date per year. Every holiday is dated for the specific year you asked about, so a moving holiday is never carried over from last year's date by mistake.
- It will not invent a calendar. When a country or year is unsupported, Zeplik says the lookup returned nothing rather than assembling a believable but wrong list.
- Calendar data cannot hijack the answer. The holiday response is treated as untrusted content: Zeplik reads and reports it but never obeys instructions embedded inside it.
Frequently asked questions
- Where do the holiday dates come from?
- From Nager.Date, an open public-holiday calendar covering more than a hundred countries, read live via a keyless API. Each date Zeplik returns is a real published figure with the holiday's name, not an estimate.
- Why not just ask a chatbot when a holiday is?
- Because moving holidays and weekend-shifted observances change date every year, and a language model answers from a frozen snapshot, so a remembered date is easily wrong. This tool reads the official calendar for the exact year you need.
- Can I give a country name instead of a code?
- Yes. Say 'Germany' or 'DE', 'Japan' or 'JP'; both resolve to the same supported calendar. If a country is not covered, Zeplik tells you rather than guessing.
- Which years can I look up?
- A wide range of past and future years is available. Leave the year out for the current year, or name any year you are planning for; if a year is out of range the answer says so.
- Does a holiday lookup cost credits?
- The lookup itself is free. You pay only the normal model-token cost of the answer Zeplik writes around it, shown before you send, exactly like any other message.
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