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Public holidays in Tuvalu
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<p> The following are public <a href="/facts/Holiday/kM9E3s9q">holidays</a> in <a href="/facts/Tuvalu/d8mLnsM8">Tuvalu</a>. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Date</th><th>English name</th><th><a href="/facts/Tuvaluan_language/zTN8d938">Tuvaluan</a> name</th></tr><tr><td>1 January</td><td>New Year's Day</td><td>Tausaga Fou</td></tr><tr><td>Second Monday in March</td><td><a href="/facts/Commonwealth_Day/Fg61eSGK">Commonwealth Day</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Moveable_feast/0TzbTtxw">moveable</a></i> in autumn</td><td><a href="/facts/Good_Friday/TDXcVFfH">Good Friday</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Moveable_feast/0TzbTtxw">moveable</a></i> in autumn</td><td><a href="/facts/Easter_Monday/c7M77lqk">Easter Monday</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Second Monday in May</td><td>Gospel Day</td><td>Te Aso o te Tala Lei</td></tr><tr><td>Second Saturday in June (can vary if appointed differently)</td><td><a href="/facts/King%27s_Official_Birthday/wtp7rp5n">King's Official Birthday</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>First Monday in August</td><td><a href="/facts/Children%27s_Day/PmzzJ87G">National Children's Day</a></td><td>Aso Tamaliki</td></tr><tr><td>1 October (public holiday continues 2 October)</td><td><a href="/facts/Independence_Day/wmmSnxBV">Tuvalu Day</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Second Monday in November</td><td><a href="/facts/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales/EJItVkdz">Heir to the Throne's Birthday</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>25 December</td><td><a href="/facts/Christmas_Day/EsuI0Gds">Christmas Day</a></td><td>Kilisimasi</td></tr><tr><td>26 December</td><td><a href="/facts/Boxing_Day/L92MCyWh">Boxing Day</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Also, the regions observe the following regional holidays: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Date</th><th>Atoll/Island</th><th>Name</th><th>Remarks</th></tr><tr><td>8 January</td><td><a href="/facts/Nanumea/LLl7EVmm">Nanumea</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Te_Po_o_Tefolaha/XMrsa8kX">Te Po o Tefolaha</a></td><td>Called Aso Pati by the Church, it is a day to commemorate the founder of the community, Tefolaha. It was the day Nanumea embraced Christianity.</td></tr><tr><td>3 February</td><td>Nanumea</td><td>Po Lahi</td><td>Celebrated with a feast in the <a href="/facts/Maneaba/BT1V9m4d">ahiga</a></td></tr><tr><td>11 February</td><td><a href="/facts/Nukufetau/l3neW3Sk">Nukufetau</a></td><td>Te Aso o Tutasi</td><td>Honors the Tutasi school.</td></tr><tr><td>16 February</td><td><a href="/facts/Nui_(atoll)/JoL2gH8b">Nui</a></td><td>Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood)</td><td>Commemorates the <a href="/facts/Tsunami/N3xGNHBl">Tsunami</a> that struck the island on that day in 1882.</td></tr><tr><td>15 April</td><td><a href="/facts/Nanumaga/Ws8kJlEB">Nanumaga</a></td><td>Aho o te Fakavae</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>23 April</td><td><a href="/facts/Funafuti/zJh7TScY">Funafuti</a></td><td>Te Aso o te Paula (The day of the bombing)</td><td>Commemorates the day during the <a href="/facts/Pacific_War/yNu6op98">Pacific War</a> (World War II) when 10 to 20 people took refuge in the concrete walled, <a href="/facts/Pandanus/mgcTTmAc">pandanus</a>-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid. Corporal Fonnie Black Ladd, <a href="/facts/United_States_Marine_Corps_Reserve/dnIC6Gpl">USMCR</a>, persuaded them to get into <a href="/facts/Dugout_(military)/IVJxsPd0">dugouts</a>, then a bomb struck the building shortly after.</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Moveable_feast/0TzbTtxw">moveable</a></i> in May</td><td><a href="/facts/Nukulaelae/IJE5QHsB">Nukulaelae</a></td><td>Aso o te Tala Lei</td><td>Island-specific Gospel Day.</td></tr><tr><td>17 September</td><td><a href="/facts/Niutao/XbJyQk1j">Niutao</a></td><td>Te Aso o te Setema</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>21 October</td><td><a href="/facts/Funafuti/zJh7TScY">Funafuti</a></td><td>Cyclone Day</td><td>Commemorates <a href="/facts/Cyclone_Bebe/nkAptxJD">Cyclone Bebe</a>'s destruction of Funafuti in 1972.</td></tr><tr><td>25 November</td><td><a href="/facts/Vaitupu/99o4Lw6n">Vaitupu</a></td><td>Te Aso Fiafia (Happy Day)</td><td>Commemorates 25 November 1887 which was the date on which the final instalment of a debt of $13,000 was repaid to H. M. Ruge and Company.</td></tr></tbody></table>