Easter Monday Bank Holiday 2016

What is Easter Monday and when does it fall?What is Easter Monday, where in the UK is it a bank holiday and when does it fall? Date, day of the week, substitute day and background.

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When is Easter Monday 2016?

Easter Monday 2016 is on Monday, 28 March 2016. Falling on a Monday, it makes a three-day weekend without using any annual leave.

Easter Monday 2016 at a glance

DateMonday, 28 March 2016
Date rulemoveable, always the day after Easter Sunday
Where it appliesEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not Scotland
Also known asBright Monday

Easter Monday: origins, the Easter weekend and Scotland

The second day of Easter
Easter Monday has no separate event behind it. It survives from the medieval practice of keeping the great church feasts over several days, originally a whole octave of eight. In Britain the Monday is what remained when the rest fell away.
One of the original four
Easter Monday was one of the four days named for England, Wales and Ireland in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, alongside Whit Monday, the first Monday in August and Boxing Day. It has been a fixture of the calendar ever since.
Not a holiday in Scotland
Scotland kept Good Friday but never adopted Easter Monday as a bank holiday, one of several points where the Scottish list diverges. Scots instead have 2nd January, the first Monday in August and St Andrew's Day.
The longest weekend of the year
With Good Friday on one side and Easter Monday on the other, Easter gives four consecutive days off without touching any annual leave, the longest such run in the UK calendar. Three days of leave either side turn it into ten.
A moveable date
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so Easter Monday can fall anywhere between 23 March and 26 April. As a Monday it never needs a substitute day.

All bank holidays of the year

Which other bank holidays fall in 2016, what day of the week they land on and which parts of the UK they apply to.

Calendar around Easter Monday 2016

The calendar month around Easter Monday 2016 and the months before and after.

February 2016
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March 2016
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April 2016
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See also: Yearly calendar for 2016

Dates of Easter Monday Bank Holiday: long term overview

Because it follows Easter, the date can fall anywhere between 23 March and 26 April. As a Monday it never needs a substitute day.
YearDateDay of the weekSubstitute day
2015 6 April 2015 Monday –
2016 28 March 2016 Monday –
2017 17 April 2017 Monday –
2018 2 April 2018 Monday –
2019 22 April 2019 Monday –
2020 13 April 2020 Monday –
2021 5 April 2021 Monday –
2022 18 April 2022 Monday –
2023 10 April 2023 Monday –
2024 1 April 2024 Monday –
2025 21 April 2025 Monday –
2026 6 April 2026 Monday –
2027 29 March 2027 Monday –
2028 17 April 2028 Monday –
2029 2 April 2029 Monday –
2030 22 April 2030 Monday –
2031 14 April 2031 Monday –
2032 29 March 2032 Monday –
2033 18 April 2033 Monday –
2034 10 April 2034 Monday –
2035 26 March 2035 Monday –
2036 14 April 2036 Monday –
2037 6 April 2037 Monday –