Maine State Holidays 2026
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 11, 2026
Maine's own holiday calendar for 2026 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 2026 250 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 (2026)
- Patriot's Day (Monday, April 20)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, October 12)
Federal holiday dates not on Maine's list (2026)
- Independence Day (observed) (Friday, July 3)
Maine holiday calendar 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Thursday | New Year's Day |
| January 19 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| February 16 | Monday | Presidents' Day |
| April 20 | Monday | Patriot's Daystate holiday |
| May 25 | Monday | Memorial Day |
| June 19 | Friday | Juneteenth |
| July 3 | Friday | Independence Day (observed)federal only |
| September 7 | Monday | Labor Day |
| October 12 | Monday | Indigenous Peoples Daystate holiday |
| October 12 | Monday | Columbus Dayfederal |
| November 11 | Wednesday | Veterans Day |
| November 26 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day |
| December 25 | Friday | Christmas Day |
2026 summary
Total days
365
Weekend days
104
Federal holidays on weekdays
11
Working days
250
After 104 weekend days and 11 weekday federal holidays, 2026 has 250 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.
Fridays this affects in 2026:
- Friday, July 3, 2026 (Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4, 2026)
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 2026: how the calendar falls
Every figure below is computed from the 2026 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 2026
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 2026 Patriot's Day is Monday, April 20 and Indigenous Peoples Day is Monday, October 12, 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 2026 is Thursday, November 26, 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 25; May 30 is a Saturday in 2026.
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. In 2026 Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4 and section 1051 leaves it there. 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.
2026 in Maine: the same total by a different route
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. 2026 runs 365 days, 52 whole weeks and one day over. It opens and closes on a Thursday, so the spare day is a weekday and the year holds 261 of them.
Eleven federal holidays in this page's count fall on weekdays, so Maine has 250 working days in 2026. That matches 2025 exactly, with the same weekday supply and the same number of weekday holidays. 2027 falls to 249.
Saturday holidays in 2026
A fixed-date holiday on a weekend is where the federal, Reserve Bank and state calendars part company. For most federal employees a Saturday holiday moves to the Friday and a Sunday one to the Monday (5 U.S.C. 6103(b) and Executive Order 11582, as OPM applies them); the Federal Reserve Banks follow the Monday rule but not the Friday one; and Maine has its own rule. In 2026:
- Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4; most federal employees have Friday, July 3 as the holiday instead. The Federal Reserve Banks are open that Friday; the Board of Governors is closed. Section 1051 does not move it: the section carries a Sunday rule and no Saturday one, so Friday, July 3 is not a legal holiday under it. State employees' paid holidays are a separate list, the Bureau of Human Resources holiday schedule.
This page's count leaves out the Friday or Monday that federal employees have as the holiday, because the count follows the federal employees' holidays. A count on the Federal Reserve Banks' schedule has one more business day across each of those Fridays.
Where Maine's own calendar departs from the count in 2026
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 20 as a holiday, which the federal count treats as a working day. The federal count takes out Independence Day (observed) on Friday, July 3, which the Maine calendar does not.
The two cancel out: both calendars give 250 working days in 2026, on different dates.
Where the fixed-date holidays land in 2026
A holiday tied to a calendar date moves one weekday later each year, so the week it breaks changes every year while its date stays put. Against 2025, each of these has moved one weekday on:
- New Year's Day is a Thursday in 2026, after a Wednesday in 2025, which leaves Friday, January 2 as a single working day before the weekend on this page's count.
- Juneteenth is a Friday in 2026, after a Thursday in 2025, so on this page's count the weekend after it becomes three days off.
- Independence Day is a Saturday in 2026, after a Friday in 2025, a weekend day, so the date itself takes no working day on this page's count; the weekend rules above decide whether a weekday is given for it.
- Veterans Day is a Wednesday in 2026, after a Tuesday in 2025: a midweek break that leaves two working days on each side of it on this page's count.
- Christmas Day is a Friday in 2026, after a Thursday in 2025, so on this page's count the weekend after it becomes three days off.
Eight long weekends in 2026
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 eight such breaks in 2026:
- Saturday, January 17 to Monday, January 19: three days, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- Saturday, February 14 to Monday, February 16: three days, for Presidents' Day.
- Saturday, May 23 to Monday, May 25: three days, for Memorial Day.
- Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21: three days, for Juneteenth.
- Friday, July 3 to Sunday, July 5: three days, for Independence Day (observed).
- Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7: three days, for Labor Day.
- Saturday, October 10 to Monday, October 12: three days, for Columbus Day.
- Friday, December 25 to Sunday, December 27: three days, for Christmas Day.
On the Maine calendar the breaks differ: Saturday, April 18 to Monday, April 20 (three days). Those follow the state's own holidays and do not change this page's count.
Bridge days and midweek breaks in 2026
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. 2026 has both kinds. The stranded days are Friday, January 2, next to New Year's Day and Friday, November 27, next to Thanksgiving Day.
The midweek closure is Veterans Day on Wednesday, November 11. 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, 2026
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 | 20 | 20 | New Year's Day (January 1) and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 19) |
| February | 19 | 19 | Presidents' Day (February 16) |
| March | 22 | 22 | none |
| April | 22 | 21 | none |
| May | 20 | 20 | Memorial Day (May 25) |
| June | 21 | 21 | Juneteenth (June 19) |
| July | 22 | 23 | Independence Day (observed) (July 3) |
| August | 21 | 21 | none |
| September | 21 | 21 | Labor Day (September 7) |
| October | 21 | 21 | Columbus Day (October 12) |
| November | 19 | 19 | Veterans Day (November 11) and Thanksgiving Day (November 26) |
| December | 22 | 22 | 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, 2026
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 2026 it runs from Tuesday, February 17 to Friday, May 22 inside the first half of the year: 69 working days, 13 full working weeks and four days.
The first working day of 2026 on this count is Friday, January 2, after New Year's Day. The last is Thursday, December 31, which is the latest date a count of working days can end on inside 2026.
Which calendar the 2026 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. It is not identical to the Federal Reserve Banks' calendar. The Board of Governors' K.8 schedule states that the Federal Reserve Banks are open on the Friday before a Saturday holiday, and in 2026 that means Friday, July 3. A count on the Reserve Banks' schedule has one more business day across that Friday than this page's count shows.
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.