Calendarific Holidays API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Calendarific Holiday Countries Holidays API
  description: 'Worldwide public holidays REST API covering 230+ countries.

    Calendarific provides accurate holiday data including national, local,

    religious, and observance holidays. Useful for ecommerce, scheduling,

    HR systems, travel planning, and global operations.

    '
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Calendarific Support
    email: info@calendarific.com
    url: https://calendarific.com/
  termsOfService: https://calendarific.com/terms
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://calendarific.com/pricing
servers:
- url: https://calendarific.com/api/v2
  description: Production
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Holidays
  description: Retrieve holiday data for any country and year.
paths:
  /holidays:
    get:
      tags:
      - Holidays
      summary: List Holidays
      description: 'Returns holidays for a given country and year. Supports filtering

        by month, day, location (sub-region), holiday type, and language.

        '
      operationId: listHolidays
      parameters:
      - name: api_key
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Calendarific API key issued via the developer console.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: country
        in: query
        required: true
        description: ISO-3166 country code (e.g., US, GB, IN).
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
          maxLength: 2
      - name: year
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Year to retrieve holidays for. Historical data available through 2049.
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1900
          maximum: 2049
      - name: day
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter to a specific day of the month (1-31).
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 31
      - name: month
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter to a specific month (1-12).
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 12
      - name: location
        in: query
        required: false
        description: ISO-3166 state or region code (e.g., us-ca for California).
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: type
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter by holiday type (national, local, religious, observance).
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - national
          - local
          - religious
          - observance
      - name: language
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Premium parameter. Two-letter ISO639 language code.
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
          maxLength: 2
      - name: uuid
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Premium parameter. Include UUID values for each holiday.
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of matching holidays.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HolidaysResponse'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '422':
          description: Invalid parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '500':
          description: Internal server error.
        '503':
          description: Service unavailable.
components:
  schemas:
    Holiday:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          example: Christmas Day
        description:
          type: string
          example: Christmas Day is one of the biggest Christian celebrations and falls on the 25th of December each year.
        country:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/HolidayCountry'
        date:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/HolidayDate'
        type:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - National holiday
        primary_type:
          type: string
          example: National holiday
        canonical_url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        urlid:
          type: string
        locations:
          type: string
        states:
          oneOf:
          - type: string
          - type: array
            items:
              type: object
        uuid:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: Returned only when uuid=true is requested (premium).
    HolidayDateComponents:
      type: object
      properties:
        year:
          type: integer
        month:
          type: integer
        day:
          type: integer
    HolidayCountry:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: ISO-3166 alpha-2 country code (lowercase).
          example: us
        name:
          type: string
          example: United States
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
            info:
              type: string
    HolidayDate:
      type: object
      properties:
        iso:
          type: string
          description: ISO 8601 date string.
          example: '2024-12-25'
        datetime:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/HolidayDateComponents'
    Meta:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP-style status code echoed in the body.
          example: 200
      required:
      - code
    HolidaysResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
        response:
          type: object
          properties:
            holidays:
              type: array
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Holiday'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: API key passed as a URL query parameter.