KB-2253 2026 Holidays and On-Call Hours FAQ

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Customer support during on-call hours and holidays

Appian Professional or Signature, legacy Advanced, Enterprise, Premier and Premier Plus customers are entitled to 24x7 support for production issues (P1 and P2 cases only). This means that these customers will be supported over the weekends and bank holidays by on-call engineers. 

Below are the required steps Advanced or Enterprise, legacy Premier and Premier Plus customers must take to get support from on-call engineers:

  1. Raise a support case
  2. Contact support via phone

On-call hours within each region

Time zone Hours
EST Fri 18:00 to Sun 18:00
GMT/BST Fri 23:00 to Sun 22:00
AEST Sat 09:00 to Mon 08:00

Holiday dates within each region

Below is a list of all holidays in various regions for the remainder of 2025 and 2026. A number of these holidays now include blackout dates. See Blackout Periods further down this KB article for details of dates and restricted activities.

Region

Holiday

Date

USA

Thanksgiving (2 days)

Thursday 27th & Friday 28th November 2025

Christmas (2 days)

Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th December 2025

New Year’s Day

Thursday 1st January 2026

Memorial Day

Monday 25th May 2026

Independence Day

Saturday 4th July 2026

Labor Day

Monday 7th September 2026

Thanksgiving (2 days)

Thursday 26th & Friday 27th November 2026

Christmas (2 days)

Friday 25th & Saturday 26th December 2026

New Year’s Day

Friday 1st January 2027

UK (EMEA)

Christmas (2 Days)

Thursday 25th and Friday 26th December 2025

New Year's Day

Thursday 1st January 2026

Good Friday

Friday 3rd April 2026

Easter Monday

Monday 6th April 2026

Early May UK Bank Holiday

Monday 4th May 2026

Spring UK Bank Holiday

Monday 25th May 2026

Summer UK Bank Holiday

Monday 31st August 2026

Christmas (2 Days)

Friday 25th & Saturday 26th December 2026

New Year's Day

Friday 1st January 2027

Sydney (APJ)

Labour Day

Monday 6th October 2025

Christmas (2 Days)

Thursday 25th and Friday 26th December 2025

New Year's Day

Thursday 1st January 2026

Australia Day

Monday 26th January 2026

Good Friday

Friday 3rd April 2026

Easter Monday

Monday 6th April 2026

Anzac Day

Saturday 25th April 2026

King's Birthday (NSW)

Monday 8th June 2026

Labour Day

Wednesday 7th October 2026

Christmas (2 Days)

Wednesday 25th & Thursday 26th December 2026

New Year's Day

Friday 1st January 2027

Blackout Periods

During Blackout Dates, Appian Solution Engineering will not permit or carry out any of the following activities:

  • Security patching
  • Applying of hotfixes
  • Appian version upgrades
  • Hardware upgrades
  • Cloud migrations
  • VPN configuration
  • Plug-in Reviews
  • Disaster Recovery testing

These dates apply globally, even if the holiday only takes place in a single region:

Blackout Start Date*

Blackout End Date**

Wednesday 26th November 2025

Monday 1st December 2025

Friday 19th December 2025

Wednesday 3rd January 2026

Thursday 27th March 2026

Monday 1st April 2026

Friday 22nd May 2026

Monday 25th May 2026

Friday 3rd July 2026

Monday 6th July 2026

Friday 4th September 2026

Tuesday 8th September 2026

Wednesday 25th November 2026

Monday 30th November 2026

Friday 18th December 2026

Monday 4th January 2027

* Maintenance Windows or Upgrades cannot be scheduled after 4:00 PM EST / EDT on the Blackout Start Date

** Maintenance Windows or Upgrades can be scheduled after 10:00 PM EST / EDT on the Blackout End Date

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian Cloud. 

Last Reviewed: October 2025

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