The August Bank Holiday falls on the last Monday of August for most of the UK, except in Scotland where it’s held on the first Monday of the month.
This year, the August Bank Holiday falls on Monday, August 27.
This holiday is known as the Summer Bank Holiday and was brought in by the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 to give bank clerks and shop workers a day of relaxation not connected to Christmas.
Nowadays, the Bank Holiday gives everyone a three-day weekend before the summer holiday end and children return to school.
In London, the annual Notting Hill Carnival is held in Portobello Road.
It is the largest street festival in Europe and draws one to two million attendees each year and is the second biggest street carnival on the planet.
The festival was founded in 1964 by the Caribbean community to celebrate the culture, food and drink and music.
In Scotland, the Edinburgh International Festival has been held since 1947 and offers musical, dance and dramatic performances form all over the world.
UK bank holidays 2018: The August bank holiday falls on Monday, August 27
A run-off of this festival is the Edinburgh Fringe - the world’s largest arts festival.
The next Bank Holiday in the UK is Christmas Day which this year falls on a Tuesday and Boxing Day.
What is a bank holiday?
A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom when the majority of the working population is granted time off work or extra pay for working on these days.
The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871.
UK bank holidays 2018: The Notting Hill Carnival falls over the August bank holiday weekend
These were Easter Monday, the first Monday in August, Whit Monday (first Monday in May) and Boxing Day.
The Act did not include Good Friday and Christmas Day as bank holidays because they were already recognised as public holidays under common law.
New Year’s Day did not become a bank holiday in England until January 1 1974.
The UK now has a total of eight bank holidays.
UK bank holidays 2018: Scots enjoy the Edinburgh Fringe festival over the August bank holiday
What will the weather be like fore the August bank holiday?
The warm weather is set to return in time for the bank holiday weekend.
However the current trend for the weather is looking like a north-south split, as the country is divided into two distinct patterns for the three-day weekend.
Drier and warmer weather will be seen across the south of the UK, but in the north wet and winder conditions will remain through the bank holiday weekend.
The bookies have slashed the odds of a return to the 30C temperatures we saw during the heatwave.
Ladbrokes have odds of 1/2 that any part of the UK will record 30C over the August bank holiday weekend.