The following are public holidays in Tuvalu.[1]

Date English name Tuvaluan name
1 January New Year's Day Tausaga Fou
Second Monday in March Commonwealth Day
moveable in autumn Good Friday
moveable in autumn Easter Monday
Second Monday in May Gospel Day Te Aso o te Tala Lei
Second Saturday in June
(can vary if appointed differently)		 King's Official Birthday
First Monday in August National Children's Day Aso Tamaliki
1 October (public holiday continues 2 October) Tuvalu Day
Second Monday in November Heir to the Throne's Birthday
25 December Christmas Day Kilisimasi
26 December Boxing Day

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

Date Atoll/Island Name Remarks
8 January Nanumea Te Po o Tefolaha Called Aso Pati by the Church, it is a day to commemorate the founder of the community, Tefolaha. It was the day Nanumea embraced Christianity.[3]
3 February Nanumea Po Lahi Celebrated with a feast in the ahiga[4]
11 February Nukufetau Te Aso o Tutasi Honors the Tutasi school.
16 February Nui Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood) Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882.[5][6]
15 April Nanumaga Aho o te Fakavae
23 April Funafuti Te Aso o te Paula (The day of the bombing)[7] Commemorates the day during the Pacific War (World War II) when 10 to 20 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid.[7] Corporal Fonnie Black Ladd, USMCR, persuaded them to get into dugouts, then a bomb struck the building shortly after.[8][9]
moveable in May Nukulaelae Aso o te Tala Lei Island-specific Gospel Day.
17 September Niutao Te Aso o te Setema
21 October Funafuti Cyclone Day Commemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972.[10][11]
25 November Vaitupu Te 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.[12]

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. ^ "1963-1968 Te Po o Tefolaha — Departure Day!" Australian National University Press
  4. ^ "Index Page" nanumea.net 2024
  5. ^ Sotaga Pape (1983). "Chapter 10 – Nui". In Laracy, Hugh (ed.). Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. pp. 74–75.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ a b Latif, Justin (26 April 2024). "Te Aso o te Paula: Tuvalu community remember WWII bombing attack". Pacific Media Network. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  8. ^ Ladd, Fonnie Black (2001). The Wholesale Rescue. Valley Farm Publications (January 1, 1986).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Melei Telavi, Tuvalu A History (1983) Ch. 18 War, U.S.P./Tuvalu, p. 140
  10. ^ Resture, Jane (17 May 2004). "Tuvalu and the hurricanes". Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  11. ^ "Funafuti natives celebrate Hurricane Bebe". tuvalu-news.tv. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  12. ^ Kalaaki Laupepa (1983). "Chapter 11 – Vaitupu". In Laracy, Hugh (ed.). Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. p. 82.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Tuvalu
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