There are between 8 and 10 bank holidays in the UK depending which part you live in.
As the name suggests originally these were days on which the banks closed and the British typically went to the seaside for a day out or some other place of interest. However over the years more and more businesses (especially shops), now open on all bank holidays (except Christmas), and people stay at home due to congestion on the roads!

* Avon
* Bedfordshire
* Berkshire
* Borders
* Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
* Central
* Cheshire
* Cleveland
* Clwyd
* Cornwall
* County Antrim
* County Armagh
* County Down
* County Fermanagh
* County Londonderry
* County Tyrone
* Cumbria
* Derbyshire
* Devon
* Dorset
* Dumfries and Galloway
* Durham
* Dyfed
* East Sussex
* Essex
* Fife
* Gloucestershire
* Grampian
* Greater Manchester
* Gwent
* Gwynedd County
* Hampshire
* Herefordshire
* Hertfordshire
* Highlands and Islands
* Humberside
* Isle of Wight
* Kent
* Lancashire
* Leicestershire
* Lincolnshire
* Lothian
* Merseyside
* Mid Glamorgan
* Norfolk
* North Yorkshire
* Northamptonshire
* Northumberland
* Nottinghamshire
* Oxfordshire
* Powys
* Rutland
* Shropshire
* Somerset
* South Glamorgan
* South Yorkshire
* Staffordshire
* Strathclyde
* Suffolk
* Surrey
* Tayside
* Tyne and Wear
* Warwickshire
* West Glamorgan
* West Midlands
* …

15th July
This is the day when tradition says that whatever the weather is like, it will continue like that for the next 40 days. This means everyone really hopes it won’t rain.