Columbus Day weekend is the last three-day weekend of the pool season, and the one federal holiday on this site that Nevada does not observe. It lands on the second Monday of October, which puts it inside the dayclub season with very little room to spare. Your office is closed. The city is at work.
When it lands next
- 2026 Monday 12 October
- 2027 Monday 11 October
- 2028 Monday 9 October
Friday through Monday.
What is different about this weekend
The same venues, the same city, behaving differently enough to be worth planning around.
The last long weekend inside the season
The venue records put the Strip dayclub season at March through October, so this weekend falls inside it — at the very end of it. Several rooms drop to weekends only before they close for the year, which makes the schedule on a venue page matter far more now than it does in July.
A federal holiday, not a Nevada one
Columbus Day is a federal holiday, but it is not among the legal holidays Nevada lists in NRS 236.015. The state’s October holiday is Nevada Day, the 31st, observed on the last Friday of the month. Banks and federal offices close. Casinos, clubs and restaurants run an ordinary Monday.
Two pools that ignore the calendar
Stadium Swim and the Waldorf Astoria pool are the only two in our records open all twelve months. If the pool is the reason for the trip and the dates cannot move, those are the two that carry no seasonal risk.
How the weekend runs
- Friday behaves like an ordinary Friday. Nobody local has the Monday off, so there is none of the holiday build-up that Memorial Day and Labor Day get.
- Saturday is the busiest day of the weekend, as it is every weekend, and the strongest dayclub day this late in the year.
- Sunday is the day the Monday holiday actually changes, because the visitors are not flying home that night.
- Monday is a holiday for everyone who travelled and a working day for everyone who lives here. Mid-October dayclub hours are the thing to check rather than assume.
Getting in
- Confirm the venue is still open before booking anything around it. October is the month the dayclub season ends, and it does not end on the same day everywhere. Each venue page carries the schedule we last confirmed, with the date we confirmed it.
- If the pool cannot be a gamble, Stadium Swim and the Waldorf Astoria pool run year round. The rest of the dayclubs do not.
- If the dates can move within October, Nevada Day is the long weekend the city observes itself, and it behaves differently for exactly that reason — a local crowd, and a pool season that is over or nearly so.
The pools that are still running
These are the dayclubs, with what we last confirmed about each. This late in the year the question is not which of them are open for the summer but which are still open at all, so the date on each card matters more than the list does.
What has changed since the last time you read about this
The archive has covered this weekend since 2015, and the line-up it published that year is a fair measure of how much has moved since. Of the rooms on that list, Tryst closed in 2016, Surrender in 2018, Hyde Bellagio in 2019, Light in 2022 and Drai’s Beach Club in 2025. Where those names still appear in old posts the directory now points at XS, Marquee and Ayu instead. The one thing that 2015 post got right is still true: this is the last weekend of the pool season.
Why there are no prices on this page
Door and table rates for this occasion are set per venue, change every year, and are usually announced a few weeks out. Publishing last year’s numbers would be worse than publishing none. Each venue page carries what we have actually confirmed, alongside the date we confirmed it.
Questions people actually ask
Are the pools still open for Columbus Day weekend?
Yes, and only just. The venue records put the dayclub season at March through October, so the weekend sits inside it. By this point in the month several dayclubs have dropped to weekends only and some close earlier than others, so check the venue rather than the season.
Is Columbus Day a public holiday in Las Vegas?
Not a state one. It is a federal holiday, so banks, federal offices and the post office close, but Nevada does not list it among its legal holidays. Everything a visitor actually came for runs a normal Monday.
What about Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
The same Monday. A growing number of states and cities mark the second Monday of October under that name while the federal holiday keeps its own. Either way it is the same long weekend in Las Vegas.
Is this a better weekend than Nevada Day?
They are different weekends. This one still has the pools open. Nevada Day, the last Friday in October, is a state holiday with a local crowd and a pool season that has effectively finished. If the pool is the point, come for this one.
Check what is actually open today
Opening days and hours move through the season. The live list is the one to trust over anything written months ahead, this page included.
