Public holidays in Tuvalu

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	Commonwealth Day
moveable in autumn	Good Friday
moveable in autumn	Easter Monday
Second Monday in May	Gospel Day	Te Aso o te Tala Lei
Second Saturday in June (can vary if appointed differently)	King's Official Birthday
First Monday in August	National Children's Day	Aso Tamaliki
1 October (public holiday continues 2 October)	Tuvalu Day
Second Monday in November	Heir to the Throne's Birthday
25 December	Christmas Day	Kilisimasi
26 December	Boxing Day

Also, the regions observe the following regional holidays:^[2]

Date	Atoll/Island	Name	Remarks
8 January	Nanumea	Te Po o Tefolaha	Called Aso Pati by the Church, it is a day to commemorate the founder of the community, Tefolaha. It was the day Nanumea embraced Christianity.[3]
3 February	Nanumea	Po Lahi	Celebrated with a feast in the ahiga[4]
11 February	Nukufetau	Te Aso o Tutasi	Honors the Tutasi school.
16 February	Nui	Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood)	Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882.[5][6]
15 April	Nanumaga	Aho o te Fakavae
23 April	Funafuti	Te Aso o te Paula (The day of the bombing)[7]	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.[7] Corporal Fonnie Black Ladd, USMCR, persuaded them to get into dugouts, then a bomb struck the building shortly after.[8][9]
moveable in May	Nukulaelae	Aso o te Tala Lei	Island-specific Gospel Day.
17 September	Niutao	Te Aso o te Setema
21 October	Funafuti	Cyclone Day	Commemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972.[10][11]
25 November	Vaitupu	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.[12]