14 Facts About Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide .

Boxing Day is concurrent with the Catholic holiday Saint Stephen's Day.

In Canada, Boxing Day is a federal statutory holiday.

In Hong Kong, despite the transfer of sovereignty from the UK to China in 1997, Boxing Day is a general holiday as the first weekday after Christmas.

In Nigeria, Boxing Day is a public holiday for working people and students.

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In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as an additional bank holiday since 1974, by royal proclamation under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

In Singapore, Boxing Day was a public holiday for working people and students; when it fell on a Saturday or Sunday, there was a holiday on Monday.

In Trinidad and Tobago, Boxing Day is a public holiday.

Boxing Day sales are common and shops often allow dramatic price reductions.

For many merchants, Boxing Day has become the day of the year with the greatest revenue.

However, Black Friday and Boxing Day are close enough together so that spending in one sale was likely to affect spending in the other.

Boxing Day sales are not a prominent tradition in the United States, although many retailers often begin after-Christmas sales that day.

Originally, matches on Boxing Day were played against local rivals to avoid teams and their fans having to travel a long distance to an away game on the day after Christmas Day.

Boxing Day is one of the main days in the hunting calendar for hunts in the UK and US, with most hunts holding meets, often in town or village centres.