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Update on Google Calendar Holiday Display

We’ve received some questions about the holidays and moments displayed in Google Calendar. We want to clarify that we made this change last year, globally.

Background on Calendar Holiday Display

Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of moments in a wide number of countries around the world – including cultural celebrations, teacher’s days, and more. However, we received feedback that many other events and countries were missing, and it wasn’t feasible to include hundreds of moments in everyone’s calendars. In mid-2024, we made the decision to simplify and show only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com. Contrary to some comments on social media, this was not a recent change.

Important Points to Note

• Showing public holidays and national observances is consistent with other major online calendar providers.
• Google Calendar is also customizable, allowing users to more easily add important moments to their calendar, as detailed in our support documentation.
• As a company, we continue to celebrate and promote a variety of cultural moments across our products, visible to people everywhere – as you saw in the last few weeks with Black History Month and Lunar New Year initiatives.