Massachusetts State Holidays 2024
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 11, 2026
Massachusetts's own holiday calendar for 2024 is listed below under General Laws chapter 4, section 7, 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; Massachusetts's own days are marked in the table and never subtracted.
How Massachusetts's holidays differ from the federal set
Massachusetts' legal holidays, defined in General Laws chapter 4, section 7, are the federal list plus Patriots' Day on the third Monday of April. The other difference is the weekend rule: a holiday that falls on a Sunday moves to the Monday, but one that falls on a Saturday stays put, 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 Massachusetts legal holiday. Evacuation Day (17 March) and Bunker Hill Day (17 June) are legal holidays in Suffolk County only, and the same clause requires state and municipal offices there to stay open on both.
Massachusetts holidays beyond the federal list (2024)
- Patriots' Day (Monday, April 15)
Federal holiday dates not on Massachusetts's list (2024)
Every federal holiday date of 2024 is on Massachusetts's list, so none is left out.
Massachusetts 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 | Patriots' Daystate holiday |
| May 27 | Monday | Memorial Day |
| June 19 | Wednesday | Juneteenth |
| July 4 | Thursday | Independence Day |
| September 2 | Monday | Labor Day |
| October 14 | Monday | Columbus Day |
| 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. Massachusetts'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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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
Massachusetts 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.
Massachusetts legal holidays in 2024
Massachusetts defines its legal holidays in chapter 4, section 7 of the General Laws, clause Eighteenth. Five are fixed dates (January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11 and Christmas Day), each moved to the following day only when it falls on a Sunday. The rest are set by rule: the third Mondays of January, February and April, the last Monday in May, the first Monday in September, the second Monday in October, and Thanksgiving Day. The third Monday in April is the one legal holiday the federal list does not have; the Trial Court's list calls it Patriots' Day, and in 2024 it is Monday, April 15.
None of the five fixed dates reaches a weekend in 2024, so the Sunday clause is idle this year and every legal holiday sits on its own date.
The same clause makes Evacuation Day (March 17) and Bunker Hill Day (June 17) legal holidays in Suffolk County only, each moved off a Sunday, and requires state and municipal offices located in the county to be "open for business and appropriately staffed" on March 17 and June 17. In 2024 they fall on Sunday, March 17, moved to Monday, March 18 and Monday, June 17. Neither is in the calendar above.
Section 9 of the same chapter is the rule for deadlines. "Except as otherwise provided", when the day or the last day for an act that a statute or a contract authorizes or requires, the making of a payment included, falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday, the act may be performed on "the next succeeding business day", unless it is specifically authorized or required to be performed on the Sunday or the holiday. Patriots' Day is the case a federal count misses: under section 9 a payment a contract requires on Monday, April 15 may be made on the next succeeding business day, although the federal business-day count treats April 15 as a working day. The section names Sundays and legal holidays; it says nothing about Saturdays.
How Massachusetts'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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts's own calendar departs from the count in 2024
The count on this page and the Massachusetts legal-holiday calendar (General Laws chapter 4, section 7) differ only where one of them has a holiday on a weekday and the other does not. The Massachusetts calendar has Patriots' Day on Monday, April 15 as a holiday, which the federal count treats as a working day.
On balance the Massachusetts 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, Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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.
Massachusetts 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, Massachusetts 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 the Massachusetts legal-holiday calendar (General Laws chapter 4, section 7), for readers dealing with that calendar directly.
Massachusetts'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.
The Massachusetts legal-holiday calendar (General Laws chapter 4, section 7) 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.
- The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: General Laws, Chapter 4, Section 7 (opens in a new tab)
- The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: General Laws, Chapter 4, Section 9 (opens in a new tab)
- The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Internet Archive capture of 23 September 2026): General Laws, Chapter 4, Section 7, as archived on 23 September 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Internet Archive capture of 15 January 2026): General Laws, Chapter 4, Section 9, as archived on 15 January 2026 (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: mass.gov (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on September 11, 2026.