Google Calendar can hide one holiday without removing the whole regional holiday calendar. Use this when a particular observance is not useful in your view. It is a holiday-display preference, not a change to the public holiday’s official status or another person’s calendar.
Hide the selected holiday
On a computer, select the holiday on the calendar grid. Google’s guidance describes choosing Trash and then Hide this holiday. Read that confirmation carefully rather than assuming it is the same as deleting an ordinary meeting invitation.
Restore it through holiday settings
Open Settings > Settings > Add calendar > Browse calendars of interest. Expand the preferred holiday calendar and select the specific holidays and observances you want to show. This is the documented route for unhiding an individual holiday.
Keep whole-calendar visibility separate. If the holiday calendar’s checkbox is off in the main list, a selected holiday can still be absent from the visible grid because the entire calendar is hidden.
Verify the exact date
Return to the relevant year and inspect the selected holiday and a neighboring holiday that should remain visible. Avoid adding a manual duplicate merely because the original entry was hidden. Google says individual holiday details and individual holiday colors cannot be edited through the holiday-calendar workflow. Use a separate personal event only when it serves a genuinely different purpose, such as an organization’s confirmed closure. The completed preference should affect the intended holiday display while preserving other useful dates, without suggesting that hiding an observance changes legal obligations, employer policy, or the underlying regional holiday dataset.
References
Reviewed against the linked official product guidance on November 4, 2026. Features, limits, screen labels, and access can vary by account, platform, region, and organization policy.