Put the federal holiday table on your own site
Every federal legal holiday for the year, on your page, in your layout, maintained here: the days the calculators on this site treat as legal holidays under Rule 6(a)(6) and FRAP 26(a)(6), with the observed Fridays and Mondays and the days the President closed the executive branch marked as such. It is free, it needs no account and no key, and there is nothing to renew. If you run a law library page, a bar association chapter site, or a firm resources page, this is the table your readers keep asking for, and the one that goes stale every January if you type it out yourself.
One script tag
Paste this where you want the table to appear. It renders in place. No stylesheet to add, and nothing to configure. With no year set, it shows the current year and moves to the next one on its own in January.
<script src="https://federalcourtdeadlines.com/embed.js" async></script>
What it looks like
This is the widget itself, loaded from the same address you would paste, rendering live below. It is not a picture of one.
Options
Four attributes, all optional. Anything else is ignored, and a year outside the table falls back to the current year rather than rendering an empty box on your page.
| Attribute | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|
data-year | 2024 to 2030 | Which year to list. Defaults to the current year. A year whose dates have not been compared with OPM's published holiday schedule says so, in the widget, where your readers can see it. |
data-layout | list or table | A compact list, or a four-column table with the weekday and whether the day is a statutory date, an observed day or a closure day. Defaults to the list. |
data-limit | a whole number | Show only the first few, for a sidebar. Omit it for the whole year. |
data-target | a CSS selector | Render into that element instead of at the script tag, for a site builder that moves every script tag to the footer. A selector that matches nothing falls back to the tag's own position. |
What travels with the dates
An observed Friday or Monday, and a day the President closed the executive branch, carry the same tag they carry on the holiday page. No court of appeals has decided whether an observed day is a legal holiday, and the Ninth Circuit has not decided whether a closure day is. Under the list the widget prints the date this site last searched the Federal Register for closure orders, the paragraph on state holidays, and the countersign status of the rule rows behind the list.
The data, if you would rather build it yourself
The widget reads one endpoint, and so can you. It returns every legal holiday for a year, each with the weekday, the name, the kind of day (a statutory date, a Friday or Monday observed for a weekend holiday, or a presidential closure day), the statutory date an observed day stands in for, and the source. The notes above come with it, as fields.
https://federalcourtdeadlines.com/api/embed/holidays?year=2026
Cross-origin requests are allowed from anywhere. There is no key and no rate limit. Fields get added, never renamed or removed, because a page that embeds this is a page nobody here can edit.
The terms, in full
- Free, commercial use included. A firm site is as welcome as a library one.
- Leave the attribution line. It is one line at the foot of the widget, it is the only thing asked in return, and it is what tells a reader who is answerable for the dates.
- No cookies, no tracking, no analytics beacon. The widget fetches one URL and renders text. It sets nothing in your readers' browsers, which is a claim you can check by reading the script. It is not minified for that reason.
- The address is permanent. Once your page depends on
/embed.js, that URL is a commitment. It will not be renamed, versioned or moved. - It is reference data, not advice. The widget carries the disclaimer with it. A court can also close by its own order, which no list can predict and which is not in this one, and state holidays under Rule 6(a)(6)(C) are not listed.
Where the dates come from
The same engine as the holiday table and every deadline calculator on this site. The statutory dates come from 5 U.S.C. 6103(a), the observed Fridays from 5 U.S.C. 6103(b)(1), the observed Mondays from Executive Order 11582, and the closure days from presidential orders in the Federal Register. This site checked the Federal Register for closure orders through September 30, 2026. The dates for 2024 to 2028 were compared with OPM's published holiday schedule; the dates for 2029 and 2030 were not, and the widget says so for those years. How the dates are computed is on the methodology page.
The widget also prints the countersign status of the 6 rule rows behind the list, the same status the holiday page carries, so it changes on every page that embeds it the day those rows are countersigned. Today it reads: not yet countersigned.
Two other ways to take these dates with you: subscribe to the holiday calendar feed from the holiday page, or point an assistant at the AI connector.
Something wrong with it
Email errors@federalcourtdeadlines.com. A date that is wrong in this widget is wrong on every site that embeds it, so it gets fixed first and everywhere at once.