May 2026 Printable Calendar: UK Bank Holidays, Sunday Start
One page, sunday first, 2 UK bank holidays (Early May bank holiday and Spring bank holiday) in red. The grid below carries the same dates and holidays as the file; the PDF itself is set for paper, with short day names, no week-number column, and weekends in lighter type instead of a tint. Pick a file, print at actual size, done.
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Free vector PDFs, typically well under 200 KB. A4 for most of the world, Letter for the US and Canada.
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May2026
UK · Sunday start
| Wk | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 19 | 3 | 4Early May bank holiday | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 20 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 21 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 22 | 24 | 25Spring bank holiday | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 23 | 31 |
Holidays
Holidays in May 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4 | Monday | Early May bank holiday | Bank holiday |
| May 25 | Monday | Spring bank holiday | Bank holiday |
Facts
May 2026 in numbers
- Days
- 31
- Weekdays
- 21
- Weekend days
- 10
- Holidays
- 2 UK bank holidays
- Working days
- 19
- ISO weeks
- 18-22
Printing
Printing tips
- Choose A4 outside North America and Letter in the United States and Canada; the two layouts are otherwise identical, with the same generous margins.
- In the print dialog, set the scale to 100% or "Actual size". "Fit to page" quietly shrinks the grid and softens the lines.
- Portrait is the classic wall format; landscape gives each day a wider box if you write big or plan in two colors.
- For a wall calendar that stays flat, print on heavier paper, around 160 to 200 gsm.
In use
Ways to use this calendar
Teachers tend to fill this grid first: May is when summer schedules start colliding with the last weeks of term. Lesson blocks go in the week cells, duty rosters in the margins, and the ISO week numbers along the left edge keep classroom planning aligned with the term calendar.
Anyone who schedules for a living starts with the real capacity: 19 working days, after the 2 UK bank holidays are taken out. That number is printed right under the grid, next to the 21 weekday count it comes from, which makes May 2026 easier to promise things for. The marked dates follow the official gov.uk list for England and Wales, substitute days included, so the grid matches what employers work from.
At home it becomes the family wall calendar: appointments and lessons in pen, dinner plans in pencil. The Sunday start reads the way most North American wall calendars do.