Detecting a US Holiday

Question

What\'s the simplest way to determine if a date is a U.S. bank holiday in Python? There seem to be various calendars and webservices listing holidays for various countries,

Answer 1

Use the holiday library in python.

pip install holidays

For USA holiday:

1. To check a date holiday or not.

from datetime import date
import holidays

# Select country
us_holidays = holidays.US()

# If it is a holidays then it returns True else False
print('01-01-2018' in us_holidays)
print('02-01-2018' in us_holidays)

# What holidays is it?
print(us_holidays.get('01-01-2018'))
print(us_holidays.get('02-01-2018'))

2. To list out all holidays in US:

from datetime import date
import holidays

# Select country
us_holidays = holidays.US()

# Print all the holidays in US in year 2018
for ptr in holidays.US(years = 2018).items():
    print(ptr)

You can find holidays for any country you like the list of countries listed on my Blog. My Blog on Holidays

Github Link of Holidays Python