Next Holiday Sensor

This sensor tells you what holiday is coming up next. You can use it to set holiday light colors or other scenes.

The state of the sensor tells you what the upcoming holiday is. If today is a holiday, the state will be that holiday. There are sensor attributes showing all the holidays for the year, whether or not today is a holiday, and how many days there are before the next holiday. The component will look ahead into the next year for the next holiday.

Holidays are recomputed every year. In the config you can specify what holidays you want to track. The holidays and config are based on the https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays

Configuration

Configuration is set as a sensor of the next_holiday platform. You make a list of sources, each of which can have the following attributes:

Multiple country/state/provinces and filters may be combined to get a pretty flexible list of holidays.

Lists of valid states and province abbreviations can be found in the underlying library, e.g. here for Canada

Example

Add a sensor to your configuration along the lines of:

sensor:
  - platform: next_holiday
    sources: 
     - country: "USA"
       state: "WA"
     - country: "Israel"
       multiday: false
       filter:
         - 'hanukkah'

This loads all normal holidays for the US State of Washington and also throws in Hanukkah by loading the Israel holidays and filtering everything but Hanukkah out.