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Good Friday 2026

United Kingdom · Saturday, April 18, 2026 · FM1, Q1 of FY2026

Sat
Weekday 2026
FM1
Fiscal Month
Q1
Fiscal Quarter
347d
To FY2026 Year-End
Country
United Kingdom
Calendar date 2026
2026-04-18 (Saturday)
Observed date 2026
2026-04-20 (Monday) — Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention)
Fiscal year
FY2026 (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 2026-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.

2026 weekday and observance

In 2026, Good Friday falls on Saturday, April 18. Falling on a Saturday, the official observance shifts under most national rules. Federal banking holidays observed on Saturday typically move to the preceding Friday in the United States and Canada, or the following Monday in the United Kingdom and most Commonwealth countries.

Weekend observance: Because 2026's date lands on a Saturday, the official observance shifts to Monday, April 20. Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention). Federal pay schedules, government services, and most regulated banking activity follow the observed date rather than the calendar date for the purposes of business-day counting and value-date accrual.

Where it lands in FY2026

For organisations on the United Kingdom fiscal calendar, Good Friday 2026 sits in fiscal month 1 (FM1), inside quarter Q1 of FY2026. From this date, you have approximately 347 days remaining until fiscal year-end on March 31, 2027. 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 2024 · Good Friday 2025 · Good Friday 2027 ·

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Good Friday 2026 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 2026 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 2026

Cross-references