Twelve months · twelve public days
2026 on one sheet, with South African public holidays marked
All twelve months of 2026 with South Africa's twelve public holidays marked, including the Monday the Act adds in August. PDF at exact page size, or PNG, SVG, XLSX, DOCX and ICS.
The rest of the run
The other country
Without holidays
- Days marked
- 12 public holidays
- Sunday rule
- Public Holidays Act 36 of 1994 — a Sunday holiday makes the Monday following a public holiday too
- Saturday
- No rule at all; a Saturday holiday stays a Saturday
- At a weekend in 2026
- Three: 21 March, 9 August and 26 December
Three weekend days, one added Monday
Three of the twelve public holidays fall at a weekend in 2026 and only one of them adds anything. Human Rights Day is a Saturday, 21 March. Day of Goodwill is a Saturday, 26 December. Neither moves and neither produces a day in lieu, because the Public Holidays Act 36 of 1994 contains no Saturday rule.
National Women’s Day is the Sunday, 9 August, and there the Act does have something to say: whenever a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday following is also a public holiday. Monday 10 August is therefore marked as well. The Sunday is not moved and does not stop being a holiday — the Monday is added to it.
That asymmetry is the thing most printed calendars get wrong, and it is the reason a marked sheet is worth more than a list of dates.
April carries three of the twelve: Good Friday on the 3rd, Family Day on the 6th and Freedom Day on the 27th. The first two are the only days on the list without fixed dates; they are set from the Easter date, which in 2026 is 5 April. February, July, October and November carry none.
A public holiday can be moved or added by proclamation. This sheet carries the pattern the Act sets and not any such announcement, and it is the national list rather than a statement of what any employer closes for.
Printing it
A4 is 210 × 297 mm and Letter is 8.5 × 11 inches. The PDF carries a real page box for whichever you choose, so print at 100% rather than fit to page and the sheet arrives at the size it claims. A5 and A3 are on the same control, portrait or landscape.
The marks are black rather than coloured, which survives a mono printer. Twelve months to a sheet leaves no room for names, so the days are marked and not labelled; a single month prints the names under the grid.