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How to Subscribe to a Public Holiday Calendar

Turning on a holiday calendar shows public holidays automatically alongside your own events, and subscribing to other calendars works the same way for anything from sports schedules to shared team events.

  1. Open your calendar settings

    Go into the settings menu of your calendar app.

  2. Find the holiday calendar option

    Look for a setting called something like "Show holiday calendars" or "Other calendars."

  3. Turn on a public holiday calendar

    Toggle it on and public holidays for your selected country or region start appearing on your calendar automatically.

  4. Subscribe to other calendars

    Entering a subscription link (an iCal address) for a sports schedule or a special-interest calendar adds it as an additional subscription.

  5. Toggle visibility per calendar

    Once you've subscribed to several calendars, turn individual ones on or off in the list to control what actually shows on your screen.

A subscription updates itself -- you never re-enter it

Unlike manually typing in every public holiday for the year, a subscribed calendar is a live link: if a holiday date changes or a new one is added, the calendar app fetches the update automatically the next time it syncs, so the list on your screen never goes stale.

Not limited to holidays

The same subscription mechanism works for any calendar with a public link -- a sports team's season schedule, a public transit service's planned closures, or a shared team calendar at work -- letting you layer several relevant schedules over your own without merging them into one messy list.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will subscribing to a holiday calendar clutter my personal events?

No -- a subscribed calendar appears as its own separate layer with its own color, and you can toggle it off any time without affecting your personal events.

Does a subscribed calendar automatically reflect a different country's holidays if I select a different region?

Yes, in most calendar apps -- changing the selected country or region for the holiday calendar setting swaps which set of public holidays is shown, without needing a new subscription.