# Job exception: Holidays::InvalidRegion

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/job-exception-holidays-invalidregion/384873
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** events, fixed
**Created:** [October 7, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/job-exception-holidays-invalidregion/384873 "2025-10-07T09:37:07Z")
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### Author: ![one1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/one1/32/493591_2.png) [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/job-exception-holidays-invalidregion/384873/1 "2025-10-07T09:37:07Z")

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I’m new at Discourse troubleshooting, so I’m not sure where to start on this.

This started a month or so ago. I’m now at 4347 instances of `Job exception: Holidays::InvalidRegion`.

```plaintext
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays/finder/context/parse_options.rb:83:in `block in validate!'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays/finder/context/parse_options.rb:82:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays/finder/context/parse_options.rb:82:in `validate!'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays/finder/context/parse_options.rb:41:in `parse_regions!'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays/finder/context/parse_options.rb:20:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays/finder/context/between.rb:14:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/vendor/holidays/lib/holidays.rb:49:in `between'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/app/services/discourse_calendar/holiday.rb:14:in `find_holidays_for'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/jobs/scheduled/create_holiday_events.rb:68:in `block in execute'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/jobs/scheduled/create_holiday_events.rb:66:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-calendar/jobs/scheduled/create_holiday_events.rb:66:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:318:in `block (2 levels) in perform'
rails_multisite-7.0.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management/null_instance.rb:49:in `with_connection'
rails_multisite-7.0.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:17:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:305:in `block in perform'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:301:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:301:in `perform'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:381:in `perform'
mini_scheduler-0.18.0/lib/mini_scheduler/manager.rb:137:in `process_queue'
mini_scheduler-0.18.0/lib/mini_scheduler/manager.rb:77:in `worker_loop'
mini_scheduler-0.18.0/lib/mini_scheduler/manager.rb:63:in `block (2 levels) in ensure_worker_threads'

```

env

```plaintext
hostname	discourse-app
process_id	3072273
application_version	66f53ac5b9c7fdcd53868ccabac310b13ffc8910
current_db	default
current_hostname	discourse.------------.net
job	DiscourseCalendar::CreateHolidayEvents
problem_db	default
time	2:53 pm
	
opts	

```

We haven’t modified the `discourse-calendar` plugin.

Can someone start to point me in the right direction?

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