New Zealand national and local holidays calendars

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Response from
Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Status Request received

Comments Hi Indy, Thanks for the link. We are also looking at other options to make this calendar available soon, too. Please bear with us :) The Employment New Zealand team

33 Comments

• Logan 16 April 2024 at 16:26 04:26 pm (7 months ago)

  Josh, that link gets me calendars with school terms but no national and local holidays.
  
  The lack of public holidays means it is of limited use even in a schooling context.

• Josh 26 March 2024 at 13:49 01:49 pm (8 months ago)

  https://www.education.govt.nz/school/school-terms-and-holiday-dates/
  
  Current link can be found here

• David Apimerika 14 September 2023 at 10:17 10:17 am (15 months ago)

  I've been checking my systems for why they're not displaying the calendars and found this page. It's very odd that the ministry hasn't updated and maintained this service. Please do not reply with a direction to read the official webpage for calendar information, I'm not reading it personally, my systems are - and they don't use ChatGPT to do it! They rely on a well documented ICS standard. Thank you for rectifying this issue.

• Logan 28 July 2023 at 22:39 10:39 pm (16 months ago)

  Can we please have a status update on this from Employment New Zealand?

• Steven Bell 11 July 2022 at 17:03 05:03 pm (2 years ago)

  Oh! I can't find an ics file for 2022 and beyond to import into major calendar systems?
  
  ics files are a very common standard for all major calendars, governments world wide provide these files. It's very wierd that the NZ govt hasn't provided this basic data, it's a little embarrassing to tell clients that an ics file doesn't exist, having to create my own...

• Lindt 23 April 2022 at 08:33 08:33 am (3 years ago)

  The only link with up-to-date NZ public holidays with or without regional holidays, in an ics format, is published on GitHub by the gent above, Simon.
  
  Problem solved.
  
  https://github.com/sohnemann/New-Zealand-Public-Holidays

• Norman 30 March 2022 at 12:54 12:54 pm (3 years ago)

  Thanks Simon for coming to the rescue!
  
  If you are still looking for an ics download. Checkout Simons comment below on 29 January 2022 at 17:35 05:35 pm

• Lauren 27 March 2022 at 21:31 09:31 pm (3 years ago)

  Thanks Simon for making the Github file! That solves the problem for them for a decade even included the new matariki holiday dates. Choice. Thanks!

• Jack 11 March 2022 at 09:28 09:28 am (3 years ago)

  Hi ENZ,
  
  How are you populating the web site? It is pretty simple to generate an ics from the same source. I don't mind doing this for you if it means we can get an official ics calendar. Feel free to email me.
  
  Thanks,
  Jack

• Thomas 3 February 2022 at 15:19 03:19 pm (3 years ago)

  Hi,
  After now a month, it seems nobody will update this calendar (http://apps.employment.govt.nz/ical/public-holidays-all.ics).

• Ian 30 January 2022 at 18:27 06:27 pm (3 years ago)

  It's almost the end of January and I've been unable to find a new file. What's going on?

• Simon 29 January 2022 at 17:35 05:35 pm (3 years ago)

  For anyone who is looking for the .ics files, as nothing was happening over here, I sat down and created them for the timespan 2022 to 2032. You can find them on GitHub:
  
  https://github.com/sohnemann/New-Zealand-Public-Holidays

• Tom Robinson (Requester) 27 January 2022 at 14:11 02:11 pm (3 years ago)

  This is farcical. It's been 8 years since this was raised, the existing ICS calendar ran out end of 2021, and no one in NZ Gov has made a new/updated one available.

• Ghassem 27 January 2022 at 10:50 10:50 am (3 years ago)

  Hi, 2022 calendar please, we are waiting ...

• Jack 19 January 2022 at 11:39 11:39 am (3 years ago)

  Hello.... anyone home? Can we please have an ics calendar download.

• Joel 5 January 2022 at 10:55 10:55 am (3 years ago)

  Please provide an .ics calendar file for Public Holidays beyond 2021. The new year has already started and nobody wants to refer back to the website each time a public holiday is coming up.
  
  The calendars provided in prior years have been very helpful.

• Indy 23 October 2021 at 13:42 01:42 pm (3 years ago)

  Hi.
  
  It would be great if this can be implemented as soon as possible. I've been using the feed mentioned earlier: http://apps.employment.govt.nz/ical/public-holidays-all.ics
  
  However, this is seems to be showing holidays till the end of 2021. No holidays of 2022 are being shown.
  
  I'm just shocked that in the year 2021, creating a simple calendar feed is such a mission. It'd be great if this can be given some priority.
  
  I can see that the website use SilverStripe content management system. There is a module available for it that allows for calendar file (ICS format) creation: https://addons.silverstripe.org/add-ons/silverstripe/event-calendar
  
  Can you please put this on your roadmap. It is a pretty straightforward feature to incorporate.
  
  Look forward to the calendar feed.
  
  Thanks

• Tom Robinson (Requester) 5 October 2021 at 10:33 10:33 am (3 years ago)

  Do you have an ETA? The current holiday calendar runs out end of this year.

• Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment) 5 October 2021 at 09:48 09:48 am (3 years ago)

  Hello Mike,
  We are working on a new website for Employment New Zealand, so it would be best to wait until the new site is up and running before we can look into intergrating the tool. Thanks for your patience.
  
  The Employment New Zealand team

• Mike Nelson 30 September 2021 at 08:31 08:31 am (3 years ago)

  > While we are looking to see if we can bring the tool
  
  This has been 8 years so far... are you actually working on it?

• Joseph 22 July 2021 at 00:05 12:05 am (3 years ago)

  I do hope MBI brings back a icalendar feed sooner rather than later so we don’t have to rely on 3rd party sites for national public Holiday dates...but I do understand it needs to be secure and accurate being from the government.

• Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment) 9 June 2021 at 14:01 02:01 pm (3 years ago)

  Hello,
  We removed the iCalendar because it was an old tool built many years ago and we couldn't guarantee its accuracy. While we are looking to see if we can bring the tool back with more accurate information, please check information on public holidays on our website: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/
  
  Regards
  The Employment New Zealand team

• Ian 2 June 2021 at 11:55 11:55 am (3 years ago)

  After a bit of a dig, I found that I had configured this for an ical feed of NZ Public Holidays.
  
  http://apps.employment.govt.nz/ical/public-holidays-all.ics
  
  I vaguely recall a change from the DOL (Dept of Labour) site to the employment.govt.nz site. I had to go digging in my calendar configuration to find this url, it didn't seem to be particularly easy to find via the website. Of course based on some of the comments from The Employment New Zealand team, it may not longer be accurate which is quite unfortunate.

• SJA 31 May 2021 at 09:22 09:22 am (3 years ago)

  I would also appreciate a calendar feed of NZ holidays. Please bring back this functionality.

• Tom Robinson (Requester) 19 April 2021 at 15:21 03:21 pm (4 years ago)

  @MBIE surely someone in NZ Gov should be providing an iCalendar feed of our holidays?

• Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment) 19 April 2021 at 10:04 10:04 am (4 years ago)

  Hello,
  The iCalendar is no long available because we cannot guarantee that it contains the most up-to-date information.
  
  The only link with up-to-date information about public holiday dates is: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/
  
  Regards
  The Employment New Zealand team

• RC 18 April 2021 at 17:58 05:58 pm (4 years ago)

  +1. It is super handy to have a calendar feed. Can you please rectify and advise of the new location?

• J-B 30 March 2021 at 23:39 11:39 pm (4 years ago)

  Kia Ora,
  
  I was looking for the NZ holidays calendar feed (I had those in the past and it was useful). The site from Government Public Holiday website
  
  https://www.govt.nz/browse/work/public-holidays-and-work/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/
  
  Link to that page :
  
  https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/icalendar-feeds/
  
  Which does not work.
  
  Likewise, the links on this very page do not work anymore (even the links in the comments from 17 February 2021 at 15:09 03:09 pm).
  
  If you could fix it and bring back the Calendar feed; that would be terrific.
  
  Thanks and keep up the nice work.

• Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment) 17 February 2021 at 15:09 03:09 pm (4 years ago)

  Hello,
  New Zealand public holiday and anniversary dates are published on Employment New Zealand's website: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/
  
  Regards
  The Employment New Zealand team

• Joe Bloggs 4 February 2021 at 15:21 03:21 pm (4 years ago)

  Current link: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/icalendar-feeds/

• Lis Cap 25 January 2021 at 07:35 07:35 am (4 years ago)

  Hello! These links aren’t working. Are you able to update them please? Thank you!

• amanda (Requester) 30 April 2018 at 12:46 12:46 pm (7 years ago)

  None of the links work, can you please post the correct updatedlink for ical?

• Marc (Requester) 6 December 2017 at 14:37 02:37 pm (7 years ago)

  None of the above links work.
  
  What is the correct link to use when wanting to find and load a calendar that contains NZ holidays ?