caldays vs Nager.Date

Caldays provides free public holiday data for 206 countries in JSON format, plus long-weekend calculations and a world clock endpoint. Anonymous use is capped at 10,000 requests per day; a metered API key raises the limit for higher-volume needs. The holiday data carries a CC BY 4.0 licence, so users must credit Caldays in their app.

Nager.Date is a free, open-source public holiday API covering 204 countries, with endpoints for a year's full holiday list, the next public holiday, whether today is a holiday, and country metadata — all keyless JSON with no rate limiting. It's maintained on GitHub by a single developer and is popular as the default holiday backend baked into several scheduling and HR libraries specifically because it needs no signup. The old v3 endpoints are deprecated; the provider will retire them on 31 January 2027, so new integrations should use v4.