Choose a state or subdivision#
For: Manager | Admin You’ll need: A location form open.
You’ll pick the state or canton matching the country you selected. The list updates automatically when you change the country.
It’s worth getting right: the state decides which statutory holidays this location gets, and a country-level calendar can be very thin without one — Switzerland knows only four holidays a year with no canton set.
Pick the country first#
On the location form, open the ‘Country’ dropdown and choose a country.
The state field below reloads with that country’s subdivisions — cantons for Switzerland, Bundesländer for Germany or Austria, states for the US.
Pick the subdivision#
Open the ‘State/Province’ dropdown.
Choose the matching subdivision.
Click ‘Save’.
Changing it later rebuilds the holidays#
Saving a different country or state rebuilds this location’s statutory holidays for the new region: ‘Auto’ rows the new region doesn’t have are removed and the new region’s are seeded. Holidays you added or edited yourself are ‘Manual’ and are never touched.
Note
Because the new region’s calendar starts fresh, an ‘Auto’ holiday you had deleted earlier comes back. Delete it again if you don’t want it. See Auto-seed holidays from country.
The state doesn’t set the breaks#
The state picks holidays only. Breaks come from the break policy of the location’s work policy. When a US state has a break policy pack and that work policy picks no policy from it, the location’s page and its edit form show a notice naming the pack, with a link to ‘Open the work policy’. See How to set up breaks for a US state.
Verify it worked#
The state appears in the address on the location detail page, and Company → Holidays filtered to this location shows the new region’s days.
Tip
If the state list looks empty after you change the country, give it a moment — the form fetches the options on the fly.