Bahrain public holidays 2027
Bahrain has 5 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
رأس السنة الميلادية |
Nationwide |
| 22 Feb | Monday | Sports Day
اليوم الرياضي |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
يوم العمال |
Nationwide |
| 16 Dec | Thursday | National Day
اليوم الوطني |
Nationwide |
| 17 Dec | Friday | National Day
اليوم الوطني |
Nationwide |
2027 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 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 4 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about Bahrain in 2027
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: Labour Day (1 May). 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.
March is the longest working month with 23 days, and February the shortest with 19. A gap of 4 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 62 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 257working days, so 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, 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 3 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 16 December to 19 December (National Day). See every long weekend in 2027.
1 holiday changes date compared with 2026: National Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.