How to Add Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Get to know how you can add custom holidays as well

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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This article is for those Outlook users who want to optimize their scheduling and planning capabilities and want to know how to add holidays to the Outlook calendar.

Using this guide, individual users, teams, project managers, freelancers, and anyone relying on Outlook can easily add holidays to their Outlook calendar settings and organize their tasks and appointments. Let us get right into it.

How do I add holidays to my Outlook calendars?

1. Outlook Desktop app

If theOutlook calendar is not syncing, the highlighted guide will help you fix the problem in no time.

2. Outlook web app

The above methods will allow you to add holidays to the Outlook calendar for specific countries or countries within the app.

Do note that the added holidays will be the ones that are officially declared by the country. For adding specific holidays, we have discussed the steps in the later section of this guide.

How do I add holidays to a shared Outlook calendar?

1. In the Outlook desktop app

2. In the Outlook web app

Note that in order to add holidays to a shared Outlook calendar, you need first to add the holidays to the default calendar folder.

Once the holidays are added, you can move the calendar to other calendars, i.e., the shared calendars. Moreover, you need full permission to share the holiday calendars with others.

How do I add custom holidays to my Outlook calendar?

Adding custom holidays follows the same steps as the one you follow for adding an appointment.

That is it from us in this guide. We have a guide that explains all the steps you need to take tomake the Outlook calendar private.

Also, you can refer to our guide that explains how toset an Outlook vacation message. We have explained 3 different ways to do that task.

Multiple Outlook users have reported thatOutlook crashes when opening the calendar. You can fix it by applying the suggested solutions in our guide.

Feel free to drop a comment below if you found the above steps helpful on how to add holidays to the Outlook calendar.

How to Add Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar#

How do I add holidays to my Outlook calendars?#

1. Outlook Desktop app#

2. Outlook web app#

How do I add holidays to a shared Outlook calendar?#

1. In the Outlook desktop app#

2. In the Outlook web app#

How do I add custom holidays to my Outlook calendar?#