Texas State Holidays 2024
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 11, 2026
Texas's own holiday calendar for 2024 is listed below under Government Code chapter 662, 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; Texas's own days are marked in the table and never subtracted.
How Texas's holidays differ from the federal set
Texas sorts its holidays into national, state and optional tiers (Government Code section 662.003), and its state tier does not work like the federal list. On five state holidays, Confederate Heroes Day, Texas Independence Day, San Jacinto Day, Emancipation Day (June 19) and Lyndon Baines Johnson Day, a state agency must have enough employees on duty to conduct its public business when the day falls from Monday to Friday (section 662.004). The other three, the Friday after Thanksgiving, December 24 and December 26, are exempt from that rule, and the Comptroller marks them 'Office closed' when they fall on a weekday. Columbus Day is in none of the three tiers, and a holiday that falls on a weekend is not observed on another day.
Texas holidays beyond the federal list (2024)
- Confederate Heroes Day (Friday, January 19)
- Texas Independence Day (Saturday, March 2)
- San Jacinto Day (Sunday, April 21)
- Emancipation Day (Wednesday, June 19)
- Lyndon B. Johnson Day (Tuesday, August 27)
- Day after Thanksgiving (Friday, November 29)
- Christmas Eve (Tuesday, December 24)
- Day after Christmas (Thursday, December 26)
Federal holiday dates not on Texas's list (2024)
- Columbus Day (Monday, October 14)
Texas holiday calendar 2024
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Monday | New Year's Day |
| January 15 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| January 19 | Friday | Confederate Heroes Daystate holiday, offices open |
| February 19 | Monday | Presidents' Day |
| March 2 | Saturday (weekend) | Texas Independence Daystate holiday |
| April 21 | Sunday (weekend) | San Jacinto Daystate holiday |
| May 27 | Monday | Memorial Day |
| June 19 | Wednesday | Emancipation Daystate holiday, offices open |
| June 19 | Wednesday | Juneteenthfederal |
| July 4 | Thursday | Independence Day |
| August 27 | Tuesday | Lyndon B. Johnson Daystate holiday, offices open |
| September 2 | Monday | Labor Day |
| October 14 | Monday | Columbus Dayfederal only |
| November 11 | Monday | Veterans Day |
| November 28 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day |
| November 29 | Friday | Day after Thanksgivingstate holiday |
| December 24 | Tuesday | Christmas Evestate holiday |
| December 25 | Wednesday | Christmas Day |
| December 26 | Thursday | Day after Christmasstate holiday |
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. Texas'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 Texas 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 Texas 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
Texas 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.
How Texas law sorts its holidays in 2024
Texas Government Code section 662.003 sorts holidays into three tiers. Nine are national holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Eight are state holidays: Confederate Heroes Day (January 19), Texas Independence Day (March 2), San Jacinto Day (April 21), Emancipation Day in Texas (June 19), Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (August 27), the Friday after Thanksgiving, December 24 and December 26. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Good Friday are optional. Columbus Day, a federal holiday, appears in none of the three lists. June 19, the federal Juneteenth, is on the state list as Emancipation Day in Texas.
Section 662.004 decides what a state holiday means for an office: a state agency must have enough employees on duty to conduct its public business, except on a state holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, on December 24 and on December 26. In 2024 that makes Confederate Heroes Day (Friday, January 19), Emancipation Day (Wednesday, June 19), and Lyndon B. Johnson Day (Tuesday, August 27) skeleton-crew days, when state offices stay open. The state holidays section 662.004 exempts from that rule are Day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 29, Christmas Eve on Tuesday, December 24, and Day after Christmas on Thursday, December 26.
Section 662.005 grants a paid day off only when a holiday does not fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and the Comptroller's schedule states that offices will not be closed on another day. In 2024 that leaves Texas Independence Day on Saturday, March 2 and San Jacinto Day on Sunday, April 21 with no weekday off at all, even where federal employees get one.
Good Friday is Friday, March 29 in 2024. As an optional holiday it lets an employee take the day in place of a skeleton-crew holiday, which the Comptroller's schedule allows for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur too; the Comptroller's schedule marks it "Optional Holiday", not "Office closed".
How Texas'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 Texas 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 Texas 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 Texas's own calendar departs from the count in 2024
The count on this page and the Texas state-agency calendar (Government Code chapter 662) differ only where one of them has a holiday on a weekday and the other does not. The Texas calendar has Day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 29, Christmas Eve on Tuesday, December 24, and Day after Christmas on Thursday, December 26 as holidays, which the federal count treats as working days. The federal count takes out Juneteenth on Wednesday, June 19 and Columbus Day on Monday, October 14, which the Texas calendar does not.
On balance the Texas calendar has 250 working days in 2024, one fewer than the 251 this page counts. Confederate Heroes Day on Friday, January 19 and Lyndon B. Johnson Day on Tuesday, August 27 are state holidays on which offices stay open, so they count as working days on both.
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 Eve is a Tuesday in 2024, after a Sunday in 2023, so on the Texas calendar it is one of three days off in a row, Tuesday, December 24 to Thursday, December 26.
- 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.
- Day after Christmas is a Thursday in 2024, after a Tuesday in 2023, so on the Texas calendar it is one of three days off in a row, Tuesday, December 24 to Thursday, December 26.
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, Texas 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 Texas calendar the breaks differ: Thursday, November 28 to Sunday, December 1 (four days) and Tuesday, December 24 to Thursday, December 26 (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.
Texas 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, Texas 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 | 22 | none |
| May | 22 | 22 | Memorial Day (May 27) |
| June | 19 | 20 | Juneteenth (June 19) |
| July | 22 | 22 | Independence Day (July 4) |
| August | 22 | 22 | none |
| September | 20 | 20 | Labor Day (September 2) |
| October | 22 | 23 | Columbus Day (October 14) |
| November | 19 | 18 | Veterans Day (November 11) and Thanksgiving Day (November 28) |
| December | 21 | 19 | Christmas Day (December 25) |
The second column follows the federal set this page counts. The third follows the Texas state-agency calendar (Government Code chapter 662), for readers dealing with that calendar directly.
Texas'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 Texas state-agency calendar (Government Code chapter 662) 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.
- Texas Legislative Council: Government Code, Chapter 662 (opens in a new tab)
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: State of Texas Holiday Schedule, Fiscal Year 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: comptroller.texas.gov (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on September 11, 2026.