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Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Accurate, up-to-date public holidays, bank holidays, and observances in Southern Province, Sri Lanka for 2025 ready to be integrated into your application.

Formerly known as Ceylon, The island country of Sri Lanka is located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of India in South Asia. Prehistoric evidence can be traced to the island dating back over 125,000 years. Due to its geographic location, Sri Lanka was an important port for the Silk Trade. Sri Lanka became an independent country on February 4, 1948 and was renamed the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in 1972.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
January 1st Wednesday New Year's Day
January 13th Monday Duruthu Poya Long weekend.
January 14th Tuesday Pongal
February 4th Tuesday National Day
February 12th Wednesday Navam Poya
February 26th Wednesday Maha Shivratri
March 13th Thursday Madin Poya
March 20th Thursday March Equinox
March 31st Monday Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
April 12th Saturday Bak Poya
April 13th Sunday Tamil New Year's Eve
April 13th Sunday Sinhalese New Year's Eve
April 14th Monday Tamil New Year's Day Long weekend.
April 14th Monday Sinhalese New Year's Day Long weekend.
April 18th Friday Good Friday Long weekend.
April 20th Sunday Easter
May 1st Thursday Labor Day
May 11th Sunday Mother's Day
May 12th Monday Vesak Poya Long weekend.
May 13th Tuesday Vesak Poya Holiday
June 7th Saturday Feast of the Sacrifice
June 10th Tuesday Poson Poya
June 15th Sunday Father's Day
June 21st Saturday June Solstice
July 10th Thursday Esala Poya
August 8th Friday Nikini Poya Long weekend.
September 5th Friday Vap Poya Long weekend.
September 5th Friday Birth of the Prophet Long weekend.
September 7th Sunday Binara Poya
September 22nd Monday September Equinox Long weekend.
October 20th Monday Festival of Lights Long weekend.
November 5th Wednesday Ill Poya
December 4th Thursday Unduvap Poya
December 21st Sunday December Solstice
December 24th Wednesday Christmas Eve
December 25th Thursday Christmas Day
December 31st Wednesday New Year's Eve
Public holidays (national, legal, government, civic, etc) are denoted in bold.
Holiday data for far-reaching years is subject to change due to laws and government decrees.
Long weekends are based on non-working days and not Saturday and Sunday explicitly.

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To retrieve this list of holidays, simply make a GET request to /v1/holidays:
GET /v1/holidays
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$ curl -G -d country="LK-3" -d year="2025" -d pretty
-d key="__YOUR_API_KEY__" "https://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays"
import "github.com/joshtronic/go-holidayapi"
hapi := holidayapi.NewV1("__YOUR_API_KEY__")
holidays, err := hapi.Holidays(map[string]interface{}{
  "country": "LK-3",
  "year": "2025",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'LK-3',
  year: '2025',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'LK-3',
  'year' => '2025',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "LK-3"
$Body.year = "2025"
$Url = "https://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays"
$Result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Url -Body $Body
$Result.holidays
import holidayapi
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = holidayapi.v1(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'LK-3',
  'year': '2025',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'LK-3',
  'year': '2025',
})