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Good Friday 2024

United Kingdom · Thursday, April 18, 2024 · FM1, Q1 of FY2024

Thu
Weekday 2024
FM1
Fiscal Month
Q1
Fiscal Quarter
347d
To FY2024 Year-End
Country
United Kingdom
Calendar date 2024
2024-04-18 (Thursday)
Fiscal year
FY2024 (open year)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM1 of 12 · Quarter Q1 · printable monthly template
Source
UK Government bank holidays

About Good Friday

Public holiday across the UK, the Friday before Easter Sunday.

This page is the 2024-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the United Kingdom fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Good Friday page.

2024 weekday and observance

In 2024, Good Friday falls on Thursday, April 18. A Thursday holiday is functionally a long weekend: many staff take the Friday as a personal day, so plan critical close milestones earlier in the week.

No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Thursday, April 18, 2024. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.

Where it lands in FY2024

For organisations on the United Kingdom fiscal calendar, Good Friday 2024 sits in fiscal month 1 (FM1), inside quarter Q1 of FY2024. From this date, you have approximately 347 days remaining until fiscal year-end on March 31, 2025. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.

For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Good Friday 2023 · Good Friday 2025 · Good Friday 2026

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Good Friday 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM1 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.

If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2024 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.

Other holidays in April 2024

Cross-references