Hawaii and other State/Local Holidays.

Factual Questions
1

Are state offices closed on King Kamehameha day, Kalanianaole Day and/or Statehood Day? Are there any state/local governments that give days off for local holidays?

I’m not looking for days that are just “recognized;” there are millions of them. I’m curious about actual the-office-is-closed holidays.

2

California observes Cesar Chavez Day on March 31st.

State offices are closed, and public schools may be closed, though in this area they generally aren’t.

I’d never even heard of Cesar Chavez until I moved here.

3

Massachusetts definitely celebrates Patriots’ Day. Things are closed.

4

What day is that?

5

Puerto Rico’s official commonwealth-level government holidays, i.e. no school, no scheduled court dockets, can’t go get your license renewed, banks may or may not open but if they do your payment will be credited the next day:

6 January (3 Kings’ Day – traditional holiday)
2d. Monday Jan. – Hostos’ Birthday *
22 March – Emancipation Day
Good Friday (movable)
3d. Monday April – De Diego’s Birthday *
3d. Monday July – Muñoz Rivera’s Birthday *
25 July – Constitution Day
27 July – Barbosa’s Birthday *
12 October – Dia de la Raza (for local government; the Feds keep the Monday Columbus Day)
19 November – Discovery Day

These in addition to New Year’s, MLK, Presidents, Memorial, 4 July, Labor, Vets, TGiving and Xmas.

  • The birthdays of 4 main political/intellectual figures of c. 1900 Puerto Rico, apparently the result of a compromise in the mid-20th-century to have ALL our major factions have a day in the name of some leader from their past (#5, the Labour faction’s Birthday of Santiago Iglesias is so close to US Labor Day that it ended up simultaneous with that date; Barbosa doesn’t get a Monday because it could conflict with the 25th)
6

Massachusetts’ **Patriot’s Day[/B (noted above) celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord, and is held on the weekend nearest the anniversary, April 19.

Suffolk County in Massachusetts (including the city of Boston) celebrates Evacuation Day on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. It celebrates the British leaving the city during the REvolutionary war.
Utah has Pioneer Day, celebrated July 24th. It gves them an opportunity to use up those leftover fireworks from the 4th of July. It celebrates Brigham Young and the LDS pioneers entering the Salt Lake Valley.

7

I work for the state of Texas, which has several holidays observed nowhere. Among them are Confederate Heroes Day, LBJ’s Birthday, San Jacinto Day and “Juneteenth” (June 19, the day that word of the Emancipation Proclamation supposedly reached Texas).

But no state office is completely shut down on those days- a skeleton crew works on all those days.

8

In Hawaii, state offices are closed for Kamehameha Day, Kuhio Day, and Admissions (Statehood) Day.

There is no Kalanianaole Day.

9

New Year’s Day Dec. 31, 2004 - Fri. The first day in January

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 17 - Monday The third Monday in January
Presidents’ Day Feb. 21- Monday The third Monday in February

Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day Mar. 25 - Friday The twenty-sixth day in March

Good Friday Mar. 25 - Friday The Friday preceding Easter Sunday

Memorial Day May 30 - Monday The last Monday in May

King Kamehameha I Day June 10 - Friday The eleventh day in June

Independence Day July 4 - Monday The fourth day in July

Statehood Day Aug. 19 - Friday The third Friday in August

Labor Day Sept. 5 - Monday The first Monday in September

Veterans’ Day Nov. 11 - Friday The eleventh day in November

Thanksgiving Nov. 24 - Thursday The fourth Thursday in Nov.

Christmas Dec. 26 - Monday The twenty-fifth day in Dec.