The following are public holidays in Tuvalu.
Date English name Tuvaluan name 1 January New Year's Day Tausaga Fou Second Monday in March Commonwealth Day moveable in autumn Good Friday moveable in autumn Easter Monday Second Monday in May Gospel Day Te Aso o te Tala Lei Second Saturday in June (can vary if appointed differently) King's Official Birthday First Monday in August National Children's Day Aso Tamaliki 1 October (public holiday continues 2 October) Tuvalu Day 25 December Christmas Day Kilisimasi 26 December Boxing Day
Also, the regions observe the following regional holidays: Date Atoll/Island Name Remarks 8 January Nanumea Te Po o Tefolaha Called Aso Pati by the Church, it is a day to commemorate the founder of the community, Tefolaha. It was the day Nanumea embraced Christianity."1963-1968 Te Po o Tefolaha — Departure Day!" Australian National University Press 3 February Nanumea Po Lahi Celebrated with a feast in the ahiga"Index Page" nanumea.net 2024 11 February Nukufetau Te Aso o Tutasi Honors the Tutasi school. 16 February Nui Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood) Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882. 15 April Nanumaga Aho o te Fakavae 23 April Funafuti Te Aso o te Paula (The day of the bombing) Commemorates the day during the Pacific War (World War II) when 10 to 20 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid. Corporal Fonnie Black Ladd, USMCR, persuaded them to get into dugouts, then a bomb struck the building shortly after.Melei Telavi, Tuvalu A History (1983) Ch. 18 War, U.S.P./Tuvalu, p. 140 moveable in May Nukulaelae Aso o te Tala Lei Island-specific Gospel Day. 17 September Niutao Te Aso o te Setema 21 October Funafuti Cyclone Day Commemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972. 25 November 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.
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