Summer Bank Holiday 2024
United Kingdom · Sunday, August 25, 2024 · FM5, Q2 of FY2024
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Calendar date 2024
- 2024-08-25 (Sunday)
- Observed date 2024
- 2024-08-26 (Monday) — Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention)
- Fiscal year
- FY2024 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM5 of 12 · Quarter Q2 · printable monthly template
- Source
- UK Government bank holidays
About Summer Bank Holiday
Last Monday in August in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland; first Monday in August in Scotland.
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 Summer Bank Holiday page.
2024 weekday and observance
In 2024, Summer Bank Holiday falls on Sunday, August 25. Falling on a Sunday, the official observance shifts to a weekday under most national rules. Pay date for any payroll run whose payday lands on this date moves to the preceding business day.
Where it lands in FY2024
For organisations on the United Kingdom fiscal calendar, Summer Bank Holiday 2024 sits in fiscal month 5 (FM5), inside quarter Q2 of FY2024. From this date, you have approximately 218 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: Summer Bank Holiday 2023 · Summer Bank Holiday 2025 · Summer Bank Holiday 2026
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Summer Bank Holiday 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM5 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.
Cross-references
- Printable August template (FM5) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q2 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2024 overview for United Kingdom — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Summer Bank Holiday page — year-agnostic background.