Add Holidays and Calendar Feeds to Your Shared Home

Q: Can I import an ICS or webcal calendar feed?

Yes. Any calendar published as an .ics file or a webcal link can be imported, such as school term dates, a sports fixture list, or a council bin collection schedule. Paste the link, name it, and the events flow into your shared calendar. Each household can add up to five custom feeds. Private links that need a login cannot be read.

Most shared calendars start empty and stay that way until someone types everything in. Public holidays, school term dates, the bin collection days, your team's fixtures: all of it lands on one person to copy across, and a half-filled calendar is one nobody trusts. So we built calendar subscriptions into OneHaus. You subscribe once, and the dates appear in your shared home calendar and keep themselves current.

There are two parts to it: built-in holiday calendars for the country you choose, and custom feeds for any calendar published as an .ics or webcal link. Both flow into the same shared view your whole household already uses, and both sync down to your devices.

Holiday calendars, without the copy and paste

Pick a country and a category, and the dates are in:

National holidays: the public and bank holidays everyone plans around.
Religious holidays: the dates that matter for how your household marks the year.
Observances: the wider notable days, if you want them.

You can subscribe to more than one. A household in the UK can add United Kingdom national holidays so the August bank holiday is already there when you go to book a weekend away. A household that marks more than one tradition can add the religious calendars it actually keeps, and leave the rest. The point is that the dates everyone shares are present from day one, instead of being remembered by one person in March when it is nearly too late to plan around them.

Holiday data comes from a dedicated holiday provider and refreshes on a schedule, so you are not maintaining a list. If a date moves or a new one is added, it updates on its own. Want to see the dates before you subscribe? Browse public holidays by country and year to check what is coming up.

Bring in any calendar you already follow

A lot of household dates do not live in your calendar at all. They sit on a school website, a club's fixtures page, or your council's bin schedule, each in its own place, each easy to miss. If any of those publish a calendar link, and most do, you can import it.

Useful feeds to add:

School and nursery term dates, so the inset days and half terms are visible when you plan childcare or time off.
A team's fixture list, so match days and training do not collide with everything else.
Bin and recycling collection days, so the question "is it the green bin this week?" has an answer on the calendar.
A club, class or community calendar that someone in the home follows.

Paste the link, give it a name, and the events appear. You can add up to five custom feeds per home, which is plenty to cover the calendars a busy household actually tracks.

How imported dates behave

Imported events are not a separate app or a second calendar to check. They sit in the same shared timeline as the events you create, and they flow to your phone through the usual device calendar sync, so they show up next to your personal calendar too.

Labelled by source. Each title says where it came from, like "Christmas Day (United Kingdom National)", so it is obvious at a glance.
Always current. Holiday calendars refresh weekly and custom feeds refresh through the day, so changes at the source flow through without anyone re-importing anything.
Read-only by design. Because these dates come from outside, you do not edit them one by one. If you want them gone, you remove the subscription and they all go with it. That keeps your shared calendar honest: it matches the source rather than drifting after a stray edit.
Focused on what is coming. Subscriptions keep a couple of months of recent dates and the next six months ahead, so the calendar stays about the near future rather than filling up with history.

Why this belongs in a shared calendar, not a personal one

You can add a holiday calendar to your own phone today. The reason to put it in a shared home calendar is the same reason OneHaus exists: the planning should not live in one person's head.

When the holidays, the term dates and the bin days are only on one person's calendar, that person becomes the household's lookup service, the one everyone asks "are the kids off that week?" Put those same dates in a calendar the whole home can see, beside your shared tasks and lists, and the question answers itself. That is the heart of a good family shared calendar: not the colour coding, but moving the remembering out of one head and into a space you all own. The same logic applies to two people deciding on the best shared calendar for a couple.

It also pairs with the calendars you already keep. If you share a calendar on iPhone or run your week in Google Calendar, OneHaus sits alongside that rather than replacing it, and now it carries the holidays and feeds those tools make you add by hand.

How to switch it on

Calendar subscriptions are a OneHaus Pro feature, and a household owner sets them up once for everyone.

On the web, open Calendar feeds, choose Add, then pick a country and category for a holiday calendar, or paste an .ics or webcal link for a custom feed.
On iPhone, open Settings, tap Calendar subscriptions, and add a holiday calendar or a custom feed.

The dates appear for the whole home straight away and keep themselves up to date from there. The full walkthrough is in the calendar subscriptions guide.

New to OneHaus? Start with a free 7-day trial, no card needed, and one subscription covers everyone in your home. See how it fits a busy family or a couple, or start your trial.

Frequently asked questions

Can I add national holidays to my OneHaus calendar?

Yes. Choose a country and the national holidays category, and the public and bank holidays for that country appear in your shared calendar. You can also add religious holidays and wider observances, and subscribe to more than one country if your household needs it. The dates refresh on their own, so you are not maintaining a list.

Can I import an ICS or webcal calendar feed?

Yes. Any calendar published as an .ics file or a webcal link can be imported, such as school term dates, a sports fixture list, or a council bin collection schedule. Paste the link, name it, and the events flow into your shared calendar. Each household can add up to five custom feeds. Private links that need a login cannot be read.

Do imported events sync to my phone?

They do. Imported holidays and feed events sit in your shared OneHaus calendar and flow to your devices through the same device calendar sync as the events you create, so they appear alongside your personal calendar on iPhone, and in any browser on the web.

How often do calendar subscriptions update?

Built-in holiday calendars refresh weekly, and custom feeds refresh through the day, roughly every eight hours. Changes at the source flow through automatically, so you never have to re-import a calendar to keep it current.

How do I remove an imported calendar?

Open the Calendar feeds screen on the web, or Calendar subscriptions in Settings on iPhone, and delete the subscription. That removes all of its events from your shared calendar at once. Individual imported events are read-only, so you manage them by subscription rather than one event at a time.