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
The day Nanumea embraced Christianity brought by the London Missionary Society through Samoan pastors.[3]
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.[4][5]
15 April
Nanumaga
Aho o te Fakavae
23 April
Funafuti
Te Aso o te Paula (The day of the bombing)[6]
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.[6] Corporal Fonnie Black Ladd, USMCR, persuaded them to get into dugouts, then a bomb struck the building shortly after.[7][8]
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.[9][10]
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.[11]
^"Public Holidays Act". Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
^Lalua, Silafaga (3 January 2007). "Island special public holidays". tuvalu-news.tv. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^Te Po o Tefolaha
^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.
^"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.
^ abLatif, Justin (26 April 2024). "Te Aso o te Paula: Tuvalu community remember WWII bombing attack". Pacific Media Network. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
^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)
^Melei Telavi, Tuvalu A History (1983) Ch. 18 War, U.S.P./Tuvalu, p. 140
^Resture, Jane (17 May 2004). "Tuvalu and the hurricanes". Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^"Funafuti natives celebrate Hurricane Bebe". tuvalu-news.tv. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^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.
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