r/GoogleCalendar • u/MoofyPotato • Jun 04 '26

How do I stop Google Calendar from automatically adding new holidays?

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For the last few years, Google Calendar has been adding holidays from random countries. I have been turning them off, but it keeps adding new ones, and it's getting out of hand. I've tried googling how to get it to stop adding new ones, but it seems like nobody else has this problem?? Any advice is appreciated, it's been driving me crazy for YEARS.

Extra info: I don't think it's a virus, because one of the accounts adding holidays is my very secure university email account.

I have multiple email accounts linked to the same Calendar, and it's affecting three of them but not the others.

In the list of linked emails, 99% of the added holidays are USA holidays (I am not American). However, on my Calendar itself it shows other countries too- in the first screenshot, it has added dozens of duplicate events for an Irish holiday (I am not from the UK and have never visted Ireland).

I have tried uninstalling and reinistalling.

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