2023 Holiday Schedule

Approved by Commissioner’s Court on September 13, 2022

All Fort Bend County offices will observe the following holidays in 2023:

• New Year’s Day (observed) Monday, January 2, 2023

• Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 16, 2023

• Good Friday Friday, April 7, 2023

• Memorial Day Monday, May 29, 2023

• Juneteenth Monday, June 19, 2023

• Independence Day Tuesday, July 4, 2023

• Labor Day Monday, September 4, 2023

• Fort Bend County Fair Day Friday, September 29, 2023

• Veterans Day (observed) Friday, November 10, 2023

• Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 23, 2023

• Day after Thanksgiving Friday, November 24, 2023

• Christmas Eve (observed) Friday, December 22, 2023

• Christmas Day Monday, December 25, 2023

Note: The 2024 New Year’s Day Holiday will be observed on Monday, January 1, 2024.

As a reminder, Fort Bend County Employee Information Manual Policy 507 requires full-time, non-exempt employees to work, or be on an excused and paid day off, both the workday before and the workday following the holiday in order to receive holiday pay.

Also note that paid days off, such as paid holidays, do not count as hours worked for the purpose of overtime or compensatory time calculation.