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New Zealand national and local holidays calendars

Please make available iCalendar (.ics) files of New Zealand national and local holidays. Note this was previously available but the link no longer works. e.g. http://www.dol.govt.nz/er/holidaysandleave/publicholidays/publicholidaydates/ical/public-holidays-national.ics

Being able to automatically schedule computer jobs for one of my clients, without them having to maintain their own calendar file.


Response from
Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Request received

Hi Indy, Thanks for the link. We are also looking at other options to make this calendar available soon, too. Please bear with us :) The Employment New Zealand team

33 Comments

  • Logan

    Josh, that link gets me calendars with school terms but no national and local holidays.

    The lack of public holidays means it is of limited use even in a schooling context.

  • Josh

    https://www.education.govt.nz/school/school-terms-and-holiday-dates/

    Current link can be found here

  • David Apimerika

    I've been checking my systems for why they're not displaying the calendars and found this page. It's very odd that the ministry hasn't updated and maintained this service. Please do not reply with a direction to read the official webpage for calendar information, I'm not reading it personally, my systems are - and they don't use ChatGPT to do it! They rely on a well documented ICS standard. Thank you for rectifying this issue.

  • Logan

    Can we please have a status update on this from Employment New Zealand?

  • Steven Bell

    Oh! I can't find an ics file for 2022 and beyond to import into major calendar systems?

    ics files are a very common standard for all major calendars, governments world wide provide these files. It's very wierd that the NZ govt hasn't provided this basic data, it's a little embarrassing to tell clients that an ics file doesn't exist, having to create my own...

  • Lindt

    The only link with up-to-date NZ public holidays with or without regional holidays, in an ics format, is published on GitHub by the gent above, Simon.

    Problem solved.

    https://github.com/sohnemann/New-Zealand-Public-Holidays

  • Norman

    Thanks Simon for coming to the rescue!

    If you are still looking for an ics download. Checkout Simons comment below on 29 January 2022 at 17:35 05:35 pm

  • Lauren

    Thanks Simon for making the Github file! That solves the problem for them for a decade even included the new matariki holiday dates. Choice. Thanks!

  • Jack

    Hi ENZ,

    How are you populating the web site? It is pretty simple to generate an ics from the same source. I don't mind doing this for you if it means we can get an official ics calendar. Feel free to email me.

    Thanks,
    Jack

  • Thomas

    Hi,
    After now a month, it seems nobody will update this calendar (http://apps.employment.govt.nz/ical/public-holidays-all.ics).

  • Ian

    It's almost the end of January and I've been unable to find a new file. What's going on?

  • Simon

    For anyone who is looking for the .ics files, as nothing was happening over here, I sat down and created them for the timespan 2022 to 2032. You can find them on GitHub:

    https://github.com/sohnemann/New-Zealand-Public-Holidays

  • Tom Robinson (Requester)

    This is farcical. It's been 8 years since this was raised, the existing ICS calendar ran out end of 2021, and no one in NZ Gov has made a new/updated one available.

  • Ghassem

    Hi, 2022 calendar please, we are waiting ...

  • Jack

    Hello.... anyone home? Can we please have an ics calendar download.

  • Joel

    Please provide an .ics calendar file for Public Holidays beyond 2021. The new year has already started and nobody wants to refer back to the website each time a public holiday is coming up.

    The calendars provided in prior years have been very helpful.

  • Indy

    Hi.

    It would be great if this can be implemented as soon as possible. I've been using the feed mentioned earlier: http://apps.employment.govt.nz/ical/public-holidays-all.ics

    However, this is seems to be showing holidays till the end of 2021. No holidays of 2022 are being shown.

    I'm just shocked that in the year 2021, creating a simple calendar feed is such a mission. It'd be great if this can be given some priority.

    I can see that the website use SilverStripe content management system. There is a module available for it that allows for calendar file (ICS format) creation: https://addons.silverstripe.org/add-ons/silverstripe/event-calendar

    Can you please put this on your roadmap. It is a pretty straightforward feature to incorporate.

    Look forward to the calendar feed.

    Thanks

  • Tom Robinson (Requester)

    Do you have an ETA? The current holiday calendar runs out end of this year.

  • Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment)

    Hello Mike,
    We are working on a new website for Employment New Zealand, so it would be best to wait until the new site is up and running before we can look into intergrating the tool. Thanks for your patience.

    The Employment New Zealand team

  • Mike Nelson

    > While we are looking to see if we can bring the tool

    This has been 8 years so far... are you actually working on it?

  • Joseph

    I do hope MBI brings back a icalendar feed sooner rather than later so we don’t have to rely on 3rd party sites for national public Holiday dates...but I do understand it needs to be secure and accurate being from the government.

  • Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment)

    Hello,
    We removed the iCalendar because it was an old tool built many years ago and we couldn't guarantee its accuracy. While we are looking to see if we can bring the tool back with more accurate information, please check information on public holidays on our website: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/

    Regards
    The Employment New Zealand team

  • Ian

    After a bit of a dig, I found that I had configured this for an ical feed of NZ Public Holidays.

    http://apps.employment.govt.nz/ical/public-holidays-all.ics

    I vaguely recall a change from the DOL (Dept of Labour) site to the employment.govt.nz site. I had to go digging in my calendar configuration to find this url, it didn't seem to be particularly easy to find via the website. Of course based on some of the comments from The Employment New Zealand team, it may not longer be accurate which is quite unfortunate.

  • SJA

    I would also appreciate a calendar feed of NZ holidays. Please bring back this functionality.

  • Tom Robinson (Requester)

    @MBIE surely someone in NZ Gov should be providing an iCalendar feed of our holidays?

  • Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment)

    Hello,
    The iCalendar is no long available because we cannot guarantee that it contains the most up-to-date information.

    The only link with up-to-date information about public holiday dates is: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/

    Regards
    The Employment New Zealand team

  • RC

    +1. It is super handy to have a calendar feed. Can you please rectify and advise of the new location?

  • J-B

    Kia Ora,

    I was looking for the NZ holidays calendar feed (I had those in the past and it was useful). The site from Government Public Holiday website

    https://www.govt.nz/browse/work/public-holidays-and-work/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/

    Link to that page :

    https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/icalendar-feeds/

    Which does not work.

    Likewise, the links on this very page do not work anymore (even the links in the comments from 17 February 2021 at 15:09 03:09 pm).

    If you could fix it and bring back the Calendar feed; that would be terrific.

    Thanks and keep up the nice work.

  • Employment New Zealand (Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment)

    Hello,
    New Zealand public holiday and anniversary dates are published on Employment New Zealand's website: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/

    Regards
    The Employment New Zealand team

  • Joe Bloggs

    Current link: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/icalendar-feeds/

  • Lis Cap

    Hello! These links aren’t working. Are you able to update them please? Thank you!

  • amanda (Requester)

    None of the links work, can you please post the correct updatedlink for ical?

  • Marc (Requester)

    None of the above links work.

    What is the correct link to use when wanting to find and load a calendar that contains NZ holidays ?

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