Public holidays in Tuvalu

The following are public holidays in Tuvalu.[1]

DateEnglish nameTuvaluan name
January 1New Year's DayTausaga Fou
Second Monday in MarchCommonwealth Day
moveable in springGood Friday
moveable in springHoly Saturday
moveable in springEaster
moveable in springEaster Monday
Second Monday in MayGospel DayTe Aso o te Tala Lei
Second Saturday in June
(can vary if appointed differently)		Queen's Official Birthday
First Monday in AugustNational Children's DayAso Tamaliki
October 1 (public holiday continues October 2)Tuvalu Day
Second Monday in NovemberHeir to the Throne's Birthday
December 25Christmas DayKilisimasi
December 26Boxing Day

Also, the regions observe the following regional holidays:[2]

DateAtoll/IslandNameRemarks
January 8NanumeaTe Po o TefolahaThe day Nanumea embraced Christianity brought by the London Missionary Society through Samoan pastors.[3]
February 11NukufetauTe Aso o TutasiHonors the Tutasi school.
February 16NuiBogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood)Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882.[4][5]
April 15NanumagaAho o te Fakavae
April 23FunafutiFunafuti Bomb DayCommemorates the day during the Pacific War (World War II) when 680 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid. Corporal B. F. Ladd, an American soldier, persuaded them to get into dugouts, as a bomb struck the building shortly after.[6]
moveable in MayNukulaelaeAso o te Tala LeiIsland-specific Gospel Day.
September 17NiutaoTe Aso o te Setema
October 21FunafutiCyclone DayCommemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972.[7][8]
November 25VaitupuTe 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.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Public Holidays Act". Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Lalua, Silafaga (3 January 2007). "Island special public holidays". tuvalu-news.tv. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Te Po o Tefolaha
  4. ↑ Sotaga Pape, Hugh Laracy (ed.) (1983). "Chapter 10 – Nui". Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. pp. 74–75.
  5. ↑ "Nowhere to run. Tuvaluans consider their future after Tropical Cyclone Pam". Report from International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Melei Telavi, Tuvalu A History (1983) Ch. 18 War, U.S.P./Tuvalu, p. 140
  7. ↑ Resture, Jane (17 May 2004). "Tuvalu and the hurricanes". Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "Funafuti natives celebrate Hurricane Bebe". tuvalu-news.tv. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  9. ↑ Kalaaki Laupepa, Hugh Laracy (ed.) (1983). "Chapter 11 – Vaitupu". Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. p. 82.


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