Bahrain public holidays 2026
Bahrain has 5 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
رأس السنة الميلادية |
Nationwide |
| 22 Feb | Sunday rest day | Sports Day
اليوم الرياضي |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
يوم العمال |
Nationwide |
| 16 Dec | Wednesday | National Day
اليوم الوطني |
Nationwide |
| 17 Dec | Thursday | National Day
اليوم الوطني |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September
October
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 4 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about Bahrain in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Bahrain. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
1 holiday lands on a rest day this year: Sports Day (22 Feb). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and May the shortest with 20. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 63 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 5, Bahrain sits below the middle of the range, around the 5th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 1 stretch of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 May to 3 May (Labour Day). There are also 2 bridge days: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2026.