# Hawaii and other State/Local Holidays. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 16, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228 "2004-12-16T23:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/1 "2004-12-16T23:05:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/2 "2004-12-16T23:20:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/3 "2004-12-16T23:22:44Z")
Massachusetts definitely celebrates Patriots’ Day. Things are closed. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/4 "2004-12-16T23:59:27Z")
> [@Melandry](#): > > Massachusetts definitely celebrates Patriots’ Day. Things are closed. What day is that? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/5 "2004-12-17T01:29:15Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/6 "2004-12-17T02:38:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/7 "2004-12-17T03:20:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![paa3838](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@paa3838](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paa3838)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/8 "2004-12-17T04:12:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Are state offices closed on King Kamehameha day, Kalanianaole Day and/or Statehood Day? In Hawaii, state offices are closed for Kamehameha Day, Kuhio Day, and Admissions (Statehood) Day. There is no Kalanianaole Day. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-and-other-state-local-holidays/280228/9 "2004-12-18T02:26:31Z")
> [@furt](#): > > 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. 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.