Why this site exists
Most NZ holiday calendars online either bury the dates under low-quality SEO copy, or skip the regional and school-specific detail that makes the dates actually useful. Kiwi Calendar is a small, focused alternative: every page answers a single question, every date is sourced from official material, and the site is built to load instantly on a phone.
What you'll find here
Three core sections, each updated annually:
- Public holidays: all 11 nationwide public holidays for the current and next calendar year, with mondayised dates and weekday names.
- Anniversary days: the 12 statutory provincial anniversary days, with a picker that maps your modern region to the colonial province whose anniversary day you observe.
- School holidays: term dates and break dates for state and state-integrated NZ schools, sourced from the Ministry of Education.
How the data is verified
Every date on the site is cross-checked against a primary source before publication. National public holidays come from employment.govt.nz; school terms come from the Ministry of Education's published term dates; provincial anniversary days come from the Holidays Act 2003 read alongside conventional regional observance. The verification log lives alongside the data files in the project repository.
How the site is funded
Kiwi Calendar is funded by Google AdSense. Ads pay for the domain and hosting. We do not run sponsored content, do not sell affiliate links inside editorial pages, and do not run an email list (unless and until that changes, in which case it will be opt-in only and disclosed clearly).
Found a mistake?
Email is on the contact page. Please include the page, the date, and where you think the correct value should come from. We rebuild the dataset once a year as a matter of course, but we patch errors immediately when we hear about them.