Adding holiday calendars to your calendar view in Outlook or Outlook Online

Summary

Instructions on how to add a holiday calendar to your Outlook calendar view.

Body

Question

  • I wan to add a holiday calendar to my calendar view in Outlook.
  • How can I add another published calendar to Outlook?

Environment

Outlook and Outlook Online

Resolution

You can add a variety of custom calendars to your calendar view, but these instructions will walk you through the quick steps needed to add all US holidays to your calendar (you can add holidays from a variety of countries and religious calendars as well). 

  • Log in to Outlook Online (https://outlook.office.com)
  • Open your calendar (click on the calendar icon in the left navigation bart). 
  • Under the image of your calendar in month view, on the left, click on Add calendar
  • A window with a variety of calendars will open.
  • Select Holiday on the left.
  • From the list of countries, scroll through to find the country whose holidays you'd like to add. In this example, locate "United States" and check the box. The selection will auto-save.
  • All major US holidays will be added to your calendar and they will sync to Outlook on your desktop and mobile devices as well. 
  • To turn off the holidays, follow the above steps and uncheck the desired calendar. 

Details

Details

Article ID: 76864
Created
Thu 4/25/19 3:06 PM
Modified
Tue 9/24/24 2:11 PM
Platform Environment (OS)
Outlook, Office 365