Calendarific
VerifiedAPI for retrieving worldwide holiday dates by country.
What is Calendarific?
Calendarific is an API that returns lists of holidays for specified countries and years.
It supports integration into scheduling applications, calendar software, and any system that must adjust for public holidays.
What you can build with Calendarific
Holiday-aware scheduling apps
Embed global holiday data into team calendars so users automatically see public holidays when booking meetings across countries.
HR and leave-management tools
Pull country-specific holiday lists to calculate working days, validate leave requests, and generate accurate payroll calendars.
Travel and reminder services
Build features that notify users of upcoming local holidays or cultural events in their destination country before they travel.
Get started with Calendarific
- 1Sign up at calendarific.com and obtain an API key
- 2Review the supported countries and endpoint documentation
- 3Construct an HTTPS GET request with your key and country parameter
- 4Parse the returned JSON holiday objects in your code
- 5Cache responses where possible to respect rate limits
Calendarific: pros & cons
Pros
- +Covers holidays for countries worldwide
- +Simple API-key authentication over HTTPS
- +Returns clean, structured JSON data
- +Focused single-purpose service
Cons
- –Requires an API key for every request
- –Only provides holiday data, not full calendar events
- –Usage costs or quotas may apply beyond free tier
Frequently asked questions
A developer API that supplies public holiday dates for countries around the world.
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