The following are public holidays in Tuvalu.[1]
| Date | English name | Tuvaluan name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January | New Year's Day | Tausaga Fou | |
| Second Monday in March | |||
| moveable in autumn | |||
| moveable in autumn | |||
| moveable in autumn | Easter | ||
| moveable in autumn | |||
| Second Monday in May | Gospel Day | Te Aso o te Tala Lei | |
| Second Saturday in June (can vary if appointed differently) | |||
| First Monday in August | Aso Tamaliki | ||
| 1 October (public holiday continues 2 October) | |||
| Second Monday in November | |||
| 25 December | Kilisimasi | ||
| 26 December |
Also, the regions observe the following regional holidays:[2]
| Date | Atoll/Island | Name | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 January | Te Po o Tefolaha | The day Nanumea embraced Christianity brought by the London Missionary Society through Samoan pastors.[3] | ||
| 11 February | Te Aso o Tutasi | Honors the Tutasi school. | ||
| 16 February | Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood) | Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882.[4] [5] | ||
| 15 April | Aho o te Fakavae | |||
| 23 April | Te Aso o te Paula (The day of the bombing)[6] | Commemorates the day during the Pacific War (World War II) when 10 to 20 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid. Corporal Fonnie Black Ladd, USMCR, persuaded them to get into dugouts, then a bomb struck the building shortly after.[7] [8] | ||
| moveable in May | Aso o te Tala Lei | Island-specific Gospel Day. | ||
| 17 September | Te Aso o te Setema | |||
| 21 October | Cyclone Day | Commemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972.[9] [10] | ||
| 25 November | Te Aso Fiafia (Happy Day) | Commemorates 25 November 1887 which was the date on which the final instalment of a debt of $13,000 was repaid to H. M. Ruge and Company.[11] |