Maine State Holidays 2024
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 11, 2026
Maine's own holiday calendar for 2024 is listed below under 4 M.R.S. section 1051, next to the federal holidays this page counts. The business-day total follows the federal list in 5 U.S.C. 6103, taking each holiday on the day federal employees have it, and gives 2024 251 working days; Maine's own days are marked in the table and never subtracted.
How Maine's holidays differ from the federal set
Maine's legal holidays sit in 4 M.R.S. section 1051, a provision of the Judiciary title that tells the courts when they may not sit. The list is the federal one plus Patriot's Day on the third Monday of April, with the second Monday of October named Indigenous Peoples Day. Section 1051 moves a Sunday holiday to the Monday and says nothing about a Saturday one, so the Friday before, which 5 U.S.C. 6103(b) makes the holiday for federal employees on a Monday-to-Friday week, is not a legal holiday under it. State employees' paid holidays are a separate list, the Bureau of Human Resources holiday schedule for employees not covered by collective bargaining, which adds Thanksgiving Friday and grants a compensatory day when a holiday falls on a normal day off. Public offices in county buildings may close on the listed days.
Maine holidays beyond the federal list (2024)
- Patriot's Day (Monday, April 15)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, October 14)
Federal holiday dates not on Maine's list (2024)
Every federal holiday date of 2024 is on Maine's list, so none is left out.
Maine holiday calendar 2024
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Monday | New Year's Day |
| January 15 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| February 19 | Monday | Presidents' Day |
| April 15 | Monday | Patriot's Daystate holiday |
| May 27 | Monday | Memorial Day |
| June 19 | Wednesday | Juneteenth |
| July 4 | Thursday | Independence Day |
| September 2 | Monday | Labor Day |
| October 14 | Monday | Indigenous Peoples Daystate holiday |
| October 14 | Monday | Columbus Dayfederal |
| November 11 | Monday | Veterans Day |
| November 28 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day |
| December 25 | Wednesday | Christmas Day |
2024 summary
Total days
366
Weekend days
104
Federal holidays on weekdays
11
Working days
251
After 104 weekend days and 11 weekday federal holidays, 2024 has 251 working days on the federal count. Maine's own holidays are not subtracted; the section below shows how its calendar would change the total.
Federal Reserve and FedACH counts around Saturday holidays
This calendar combines federal and Maine holidays, and its business-day count takes each federal holiday on the day federal employees have it. When a holiday falls on a Saturday, 5 U.S.C. 6103(b) makes the Friday before it the legal public holiday for employees whose basic workweek is Monday through Friday (the Office of Personnel Management says the same of most federal employees, for pay and leave purposes), so this page's count leaves that Friday out. The Federal Reserve Banks are open that Friday. A count on the Reserve Banks' schedule, which the same page sets out for FedACH, therefore has one more business day across one of those Fridays than this page's count shows. Whether Maine also treats that Friday as a holiday is a separate question, settled by its own holiday rules.
Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo), 5 U.S.C. 6103(b); U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Holidays; Federal Reserve Financial Services, Holiday Schedules. Checked October 12, 2026. All sources
Maine in 2024: how the calendar falls
Every figure below is computed from the 2024 dates in the table above and the Monday to Friday week, and each rule names the provision or the official list it is taken from. When a date changes, the sentences change with it.
Maine's legal holidays in 2024
Maine's list sits in the Judiciary title of its statutes, 4 M.R.S. section 1051, and it is written as a rule for the courts: court may not be held on the listed days, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court may order court held on one in a particular case when the interests of justice and judicial economy are served, and public offices in county buildings may close on them. The list follows the federal one with one addition, Patriot's Day on the third Monday in April, and it names the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples Day. Like 5 U.S.C. 6103, it calls the third Monday in February Washington's Birthday.
In 2024 Patriot's Day is Monday, April 15 and Indigenous Peoples Day is Monday, October 14, the date the federal list calls Columbus Day. Thanksgiving is defined unlike any other entry: court may not be held on "any day designated for the annual Thanksgiving", which in 2024 is Thursday, November 28, the fourth Thursday of November that the federal list fixes.
Memorial Day is the last Monday in May, "but if the Federal Government designates May 30th as the date for observance of Memorial Day, the 30th of May". Federal law designates the last Monday, so Maine's Memorial Day is Monday, May 27; May 30 is a Thursday in 2024.
Section 1051 moves a holiday that falls on a Sunday to the following Monday, "with all the privileges" of the day itself, and says nothing about Saturday. No Maine legal holiday lands on a weekend in 2024, so the rule has nothing to move. State employees' paid holidays are a separate list, the Bureau of Human Resources holiday schedule, which grants a compensatory day when a holiday falls on a normal day off.
How Maine's 2024 total is built
A year's working days are its weekdays minus the holidays that land on them, and both halves move. The weekday supply depends only on the year's length and the weekday it starts on; the holiday half depends on where each fixed date falls that year. 2024 is a leap year: 52 whole weeks plus two days, and both spare days are weekdays (a Monday and a Tuesday), which gives it 262 weekdays, the most a year can hold.
Eleven federal holidays in this page's count fall on weekdays, so Maine has 251 working days in 2024. 2025 falls to 250.
No weekend holidays in 2024
When a fixed-date holiday lands on a Saturday or Sunday, each calendar on this page answers differently: for federal employees on a Monday-to-Friday week the holiday moves to the nearest weekday, the Federal Reserve Banks take the Monday but not the Friday, and Maine applies its own rule. In 2024 none of the fixed dates (January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, December 25) falls on a weekend, so the question never arises and every shared holiday is on its own date in all three.
Where Maine's own calendar departs from the count in 2024
The count on this page and Maine's legal-holiday calendar (4 M.R.S. section 1051) differ only where one of them has a holiday on a weekday and the other does not. The Maine calendar has Patriot's Day on Monday, April 15 as a holiday, which the federal count treats as a working day.
On balance the Maine calendar has 250 working days in 2024, one fewer than the 251 this page counts.
Where the fixed-date holidays land in 2024
A holiday tied to a calendar date moves one weekday later each year, and two once 29 February has passed, so the week it breaks changes every year while its date stays put. 2024 is a leap year, so every date from March onward jumps two weekdays against 2023:
- New Year's Day is a Monday in 2024, after a Sunday in 2023, so on this page's count it turns the weekend before it into three days off.
- Juneteenth is a Wednesday in 2024, after a Monday in 2023: a midweek break that leaves two working days on each side of it on this page's count.
- Independence Day is a Thursday in 2024, after a Tuesday in 2023, which leaves Friday, July 5 as a single working day before the weekend on this page's count.
- Veterans Day is a Monday in 2024, after a Saturday in 2023, so on this page's count it turns the weekend before it into three days off.
- Christmas Day is a Wednesday in 2024, after a Monday in 2023: a midweek break that leaves two working days on each side of it on this page's count.
Six long weekends in 2024
A weekday holiday next to a weekend turns two days off into three; two closures side by side, or one on each side of a weekend, make four or more. That is arithmetic on the dates, so the list moves every year even when the holidays do not. On this page's count, Maine has six such breaks in 2024:
- Saturday, January 13 to Monday, January 15: three days, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- Saturday, February 17 to Monday, February 19: three days, for Presidents' Day.
- Saturday, May 25 to Monday, May 27: three days, for Memorial Day.
- Saturday, August 31 to Monday, September 2: three days, for Labor Day.
- Saturday, October 12 to Monday, October 14: three days, for Columbus Day.
- Saturday, November 9 to Monday, November 11: three days, for Veterans Day.
On the Maine calendar the breaks differ: Saturday, April 13 to Monday, April 15 (three days). Those follow the state's own holidays and do not change this page's count.
Bridge days and midweek breaks in 2024
A holiday on a Tuesday or a Thursday strands a single working day between it and the weekend; a Wednesday one splits the week into two short runs instead. 2024 has both kinds. The stranded days are Friday, July 5, next to Independence Day and Friday, November 29, next to Thanksgiving Day.
The midweek closures are Juneteenth on Wednesday, June 19 and Christmas Day on Wednesday, December 25. A deadline counted across a Wednesday holiday loses its day in the middle of the week, not at either end, so a count that steps through the week one day at a time has to skip it there.
Maine month by month, 2024
A month's working days are its weekdays less the holidays on them, so a month with no weekday holiday is set entirely by how its weekdays fall, and every holiday that lands midweek takes one day off the month it sits in.
| Month | Working days, this count | Working days, Maine calendar | Weekday holidays |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21 | 21 | New Year's Day (January 1) and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 15) |
| February | 20 | 20 | Presidents' Day (February 19) |
| March | 21 | 21 | none |
| April | 22 | 21 | none |
| May | 22 | 22 | Memorial Day (May 27) |
| June | 19 | 19 | Juneteenth (June 19) |
| July | 22 | 22 | Independence Day (July 4) |
| August | 22 | 22 | none |
| September | 20 | 20 | Labor Day (September 2) |
| October | 22 | 22 | Columbus Day (October 14) |
| November | 19 | 19 | Veterans Day (November 11) and Thanksgiving Day (November 28) |
| December | 21 | 21 | Christmas Day (December 25) |
The second column follows the federal set this page counts. The third follows Maine's legal-holiday calendar (4 M.R.S. section 1051), for readers dealing with that calendar directly.
Maine's longest stretch without a holiday, 2024
The longest run of working days with no weekday holiday inside it depends on how far apart consecutive closures sit, so it moves whenever one fixed-date holiday changes weekday. In 2024 it runs from Tuesday, February 20 to Friday, May 24 inside the first half of the year: 69 working days, 13 full working weeks and four days.
The first working day of 2024 on this count is Tuesday, January 2, after New Year's Day. The last is Tuesday, December 31, which is the latest date a count of working days can end on inside 2024.
Which calendar the 2024 count uses
The working-day total counts the legal public holidays of 5 U.S.C. 6103 on the dates most federal employees have them, as OPM publishes them. The Federal Reserve Banks part from that list only on the Friday before a Saturday holiday (the Board of Governors' K.8 schedule), and 2024 has no Saturday holiday, so this page's count and the Reserve Banks' calendar leave out the same eleven weekdays this year.
Maine's legal-holiday calendar (4 M.R.S. section 1051) is shown in the table and never subtracted from the count.
Statutes and schedules cited in this section
Each rule above comes from one of these sources or from the holiday data source below.
- Maine Bureau of Human Resources: Holiday Schedule (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Federal Holidays (opens in a new tab)
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Holidays Observed - K.8 (opens in a new tab)
Sources and verification
Official source: legislature.maine.gov (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on September 11, 2026.