Church Calendar vs Nager.Date

Church Calendar (calapi) serves the daily Roman Catholic liturgical calendar — season, week, feast rank, and liturgical color — for a given date and country-specific calendar variant, in English, Czech, Latin, or Spanish. It's a small keyless JSON API maintained by a Czech developer alongside the printed liturgical calendars he publishes. There's no pricing or account system of any kind; the only quirk is that its real backend still only serves plain HTTP, timing out on HTTPS.

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.