holidays.py

Holidays is a fast, efficient Python library for generating country-specific sets of holidays on the fly. It aims to make determining whether a specific date is a holiday as fast and flexible as possible.

Example Usage

>>> import holidays
>>> us_holidays = holidays.US()  # or holidays.UnitedStates()
>>> date(2014, 1, 1) in us_holidays
True
>>> date(2014, 1, 2) in us_holidays
False
>>> us_holidays[date(2014, 1, 1)]
"New Year's Day"
>>> '2014-01-01' in us_holidays
True
>>> '1/1/2014' in us_holidays
True
>>> 1388597445 in us_holidays  # Unix timestamp
True

Install

The latest stable version can always be installed or updated via pip:

$ pip install holidays

If the above fails, please use easy_install instead:

$ easy_install holidays

Available Countries

Country	Abbr	Prov/State Options
Canada	CA	AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YU
Mexico	MX	None
UnitedStates	US	None

API

class holidays.HolidayBase(years=[], expand=True, observed=True, prov=None)

The base class used to create holiday country classes.

Parameters:

years

An iterable list of integers specifying the years that the Holiday object should pre-generate. This would generally only be used if setting expand to False. (Default: [])

expand

A boolean value which specifies whether or not to append holidays in new years to the holidays object. (Default: True)

observed

A boolean value which when set to True will include the observed day of a holiday that falls on a weekend, when appropriate. (Default: True)

prov

A string specifying a province/state that has unique statutory holidays. (Default: Canada='ON', Mexico=None, UnitedStates=None)

More Examples

# Simplest example possible

>>> import holidays
>>> date(2014, 1, 1) in holidays.US()
True
>> date(2014, 1, 2) in holidays.US()
False

# But this is not efficient because it is initializing a new Holiday object
# and generating a list of all the holidays in 2014 during each comparison

# It is more efficient to create the object only once

>>> us_holidays = holidays.US()
>>> date(2014, 1, 1) in us_holidays
True
>> date(2014, 1, 2) in us_holidays
False

# Each country has two class names that can be called--a full name
# and an abbreviation. Use whichever you prefer.

>>> holidays.UnitedStates() == holidays.US()
True
>>> holidays.Canada() == holidays.CA()
True
>>> holidays.US() == holidays.CA()
False

# So far we've only checked holidays in 2014 so that's the only year the
# Holidays object has generated

>>> us_holidays.years
set([2014])
>>> len(us_holidays)
10

# Because by default the `expand` param is True the Holiday object will add
# holidays from other years as they are required.

>>> date(2013, 1, 1) in us_holidays
True
>>> us_holidays.years
set([2013, 2014])
>>> len(us_holidays)
20

# If we change the `expand` param to False the Holiday object will no longer
# add holidays from new years

>>> us_holidays.expand = False
>>> date(2012, 1, 1) in us_holidays
False
>>> us.holidays.expand = True
>>> date(2012, 1, 1) in us_holidays
True

# January 1st, 2012 fell on a Sunday so the statutory holiday was observed
# on the 2nd. By default the `observed` param is True so the holiday list
# will include January 2nd, 2012 as a holiday.

>>> date(2012, 1, 1) in us_holidays
True
>>> us_holidays[date(2012, 1, 1)]
"New Year's Eve"
>>> date(2012, 1, 2) in us_holidays
True
>>> us_holidays.get(date(2012 ,1, 2))
"New Year's Eve (Observed)"

# The `observed` and `expand` values can both be changed on the fly and the
# holiday list will be adjusted accordingly

>>> us_holidays.observed = False
>>> date(2012, 1, 2) in us_holidays
False
us_holidays.observed = True
>> date(2012, 1, 2) in us_holidays
True

# Holiday objects can be added together and the resulting object will
# generate the holidays from both of the initial objects

>>> north_america = holidays.CA() + holidays.US() + holidays.MX()
>>> north_america.get('2014-07-01')
"Canada Day"
>>> north_america.get('2014-07-04')
"Independence Day"

# The other form of addition is also available

>>> north_america = holidays.Canada()
>>> north_america += holidays.UnitedStates()
>>> north_america += holidays.Mexico()

# Sometimes we may not be able to use the official federal statutory
# holiday list in our code. Let's pretend we work for a company that
# does not include Columbus Day as a statutory holiday but does include
# "Ninja Turtle Day" on July 13th. We can create a new class that inherits
# the UnitedStates class and the only method we need to override is _populate()

>>> from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
>>> class CorporateHolidays(holidays.UnitedStates):
>>>     def _populate(self, year):
>>>         # Populate the holiday list with the default US holidays
>>>         holidays.UnitedStates._populate(self, year)
>>>         # Remove Columbus Day
>>>         self.pop(date(year, 10, 1) + relativedelta(weekday=MO(+2)), None)
>>>         # Add Ninja Turtle Day
>>>         self[date(year, 7, 13)] = "Ninja Turtle Day"
>>> date(2014, 10, 14) in Holidays(country="US")
True
>>> date(2014, 10, 14) in CorporateHolidays(country="US")
False
>>> date(2014, 7, 13) in Holidays(country="US")
False
>>> date(2014 ,7, 13) in CorporateHolidays(country="US")
True

# We can also inherit from the HolidayBase class which has an empty
# _populate method so we start with no holidays and must define them
# all ourself. This is how we would create a holidays class for a country
# that is not supported yet.

>>> class NewCountryHolidays(holidays.HolidayBase):
>>>     def _populate(self, year):
>>>         self[date(year, 1, 2)] = "Some Federal Holiday"
>>>         self[date(year, 2, 3)] = "Another Federal Holiday"
>>> hdays = NewCountryHolidays()

# We can also include prov/state specific holidays in our new class.

>>> class NewCountryHolidays(holidays.HolidayBase):
>>>     def _populate(self, year):
>>>         # Set default prov if not provided
>>>         if self.prov == None:
>>>             self.prov = 'XX'
>>>         self[date(year, 1, 2)] = "Some Federal Holiday"
>>>         if self.prov == 'XX':
>>>             self[date(year, 2, 3)] = "Special XX province-only holiday"
>>>         if self.prov == 'YY':
>>>             self[date(year, 3, 4)] = "Special YY province-only holiday"
>>> hdays = NewCountryHolidays()
>>> hdays = NewCountryHolidays(prov='XX')

# If you write the code necessary to create a holiday class for a country
# not currently supported please contribute your code to the project!

Development Version

The latest development version can be installed directly from GitHub:

$ pip install --upgrade https://github.com/ryanss/holidays.py/tarball/master

Running Tests

$ pip install flake8
$ flake8 holidays.py tests.py
$ python tests.py

Coverage

$ pip install coverage
$ coverage run --omit=*site-packages* tests.py
$ coverage report

Contributions

Issues and Pull Requests are always welcome.

License

Code and documentation are available according to the MIT License (see LICENSE).