Bank holidays have been in abundance this year. In addition to the usual average of eight public holidays a year, 2022 had additions to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June as well as the late monarch’s funeral in September.

Next year, we could also be handed an extra bank holiday. King Charles III’s Coronation date has been announced as Saturday, May 6, and there are questions now being asked as to whether or not there will be a bank holiday to mark the occasion.

In 1953, when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, a bank holiday was declared for “Coronation Day”, so many are hoping the tradition will continue. However, the Palace has yet to announce whether there will be a bank holiday for the King’s Coronation and, according to Bristol Live, with the decision to stage a “stripped back” Coronation on a Saturday, it may be felt that there is no need to declare one.

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There are still bank holidays to come for 2022. The next bank holiday is set to be on Monday, December 26 – Boxing Day. That’s because the bank holiday for Christmas Day, which falls on a Sunday this year, is moving to Tuesday, December 27. A move always occurs if a bank holiday falls on a weekend.

As for the new year, well the dates are all set and the first bank holiday in 2023 will be on Monday, January 2 – a substitute day for New Year’s Day, which also falls on a Sunday.

The next date to look forward to in terms of bank holidays is Good Friday, which falls on Friday, April 7 in 2023. As for the rest of the year… here is a full list of all the confirmed bank holidays for the remainder of 2022 and 2023:

Bank holidays – 2022

• Monday, 26 December – Boxing Day
• Tuesday, 27 December – Christmas Day (substitute day)

Bank holidays – 2023

• Monday, 2 January – New Year’s Day (substitute day)
• Friday, 7 April – Good Friday
• Monday, 10 April – Easter Monday
• Monday, 1 May – Early May bank holiday
• Monday, 29 May – Spring bank holiday
• Monday, 28 August – Summer bank holiday
• Monday, 25 December – Christmas Day
• Tuesday, 26 December – Boxing Day

Substitute days mark holidays that fall on the weekend, meaning the bank holiday skips forward to the next working day. Meanwhile, spring and summer bank holidays move dates each year depending on when the relevant Mondays fall in the calendar.

The first “bank holiday” was held in 1871, when Sir John Lubbock, a banker, added four days to the two common law holidays (Good Friday and Christmas Day) that were already observed. The new holidays were Easter Monday, Whit Monday (later to be changed to the Spring Bank Holiday), the first Monday in August (now moved to the end of the month) and Boxing Day. The were called bank holidays because banks tended to close.