Add or remove holidays on your calendar

Holidays are automatically added to your calendar. You can update your calendar settings to:

• Show public holidays and observances, or public holidays only.
• Add or remove holidays from other countries or regions.
• Add or remove religious holidays.
• Change the color of holiday events.

Show public holidays only

Important: You can’t edit or delete individual holidays on your calendar.

Public holidays and observances appear on your calendar by default. To show public holidays only:

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click Settings Settings.
3. On the left panel, click Add calendar Browse calendars of interest.
4. Under "Regional holidays," find the holiday calendars you're subscribed to.
5. Next to your preferred holiday calendar, click the drop-down.
6. Click Public holidays only.

Change holiday settings

Add or remove country and region holidays

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click Settings Settings.
3. On the left panel, click Add calendar Browse calendars of interest.
4. Under “Regional holidays,” click Browse all.
5. To add or remove a calendar, check the box next to it.

Add or remove religious holidays

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click Settings Settings.
3. On the left panel, click Add calendar Browse calendars of interest.
4. To add or remove a religious holiday, under “Global religious holidays,” check or uncheck the box next to it.

Tip: To preview religious or regional holidays on your calendar, click Preview .

Hide all holidays from your calendar

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. On the left, under "Other calendars," uncheck Holidays.

Tip: Calendars with an empty box are already hidden from your calendar.

Subscribe to holiday calendars published on the web

You can use a link to add many third-party holiday calendars published on the web to Google Calendar.

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. On the left, next to "Other calendars," click Add other calendars   From URL.
3. Enter the URL of the published calendar.
4. Click Add calendar. The calendar appears on the left, under "Other calendars."

Change the color of holiday events

1. Open Google Calendar.
2. On the left, find the holiday calendar.
3. Click Options .
4. Select a new color.

Tips:

• The color applies to all holiday events on your calendar.
• You can’t individually change the color of holiday events.

Related resources

• Change your Calendar settings
• Use color labels to track calendar entries