Public holidays in Tuvalu

The following are public holidays in Tuvalu.^[1]

Date	English name	Tuvaluan name
January 1	New Year's Day	Tausaga Fou
Second Monday in March	Commonwealth Day
moveable in spring	Good Friday
moveable in spring	Holy Saturday
moveable in spring	Easter
moveable in spring	Easter Monday
Monday after second Sunday in May	Gospel Day	Te Aso o te Tala Lei
Second Saturday in June (can vary if appointed differently)	Queen's Official Birthday
First Monday in August	National Children's Day	Aso Tamaliki
October 1 (public holiday continues October 2)	Tuvalu Day
Second Monday in November	Heir to the Throne's Birthday
December 25	Christmas Day	Kilisimasi
December 26	Boxing Day

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

Date	Atoll/Island	Name	Remarks
January 8	Nanumea	Te Po o Tefolaha	The day Nanumea embraced Christianity brought by the London Missionary Society through Samoan pastors.[3]
February 11	Nukufetau	Te Aso o Tutasi	Honors the Tutasi school.
February 16	Nui	Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood)	Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882.[4][5]
April 15	Nanumaga	Aho o te Fakavae
April 23	Funafuti	Funafuti Bomb Day	Commemorates the day during the Pacific War (World War II) when 680 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid. Fortunately Corporal B. F. Ladd, an American soldier, persuaded them to get into dugouts, as a bomb struck the building shortly after.[6]
moveable in May	Nukulaelae	Aso o te Tala Lei	Island-specific Gospel Day.
September 17	Niutao	Te Aso o te Setema
October 21	Funafuti	Cyclone Day	Commemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972.[7][8]
November 25	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.[9]

References

1. PDF of the Public Holidays Act
2. Lalua, Silafaga (3 January 2007). "Island special public holidays". tuvalu-news.tv. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
3. Te Po o Tefolaha
4. Sotaga Pape, Hugh Laracy (ed.) (1983). "Chapter 10 – Nui". Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. pp. 74–75.
5. "Nowhere to run. Tuvaluans consider their future after Tropical Cyclone Pam". Report from International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
6. Melei Telavi, Tuvalu A History (1983) Ch. 18 War, U.S.P./Tuvalu, p. 140
7. Resture, Jane (17 May 2004). "Tuvalu and the hurricanes". Retrieved 23 April 2014.
8. "Funafuti natives celebrate Hurricane Bebe". tuvalu-news.tv. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
9. Kalaaki Laupepa, Hugh Laracy (ed.) (1983). "Chapter 11 – Vaitupu". Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. p. 82.