Burundi public holidays 2026
Burundi has 12 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 5 Feb | Thursday | Unity Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Ntaryamira Day | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 14 May | Thursday | Ascension Day | Nationwide |
| 8 Jun | Monday | National Patriotism Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Wednesday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Saturday rest day | Assumption Day | Nationwide |
| 13 Oct | Tuesday | Rwagasore Day | Nationwide |
| 21 Oct | Wednesday | Ndadaye Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Sunday rest day | All Saints' Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April 1 holiday
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October 2 holidays
November 1 holiday
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Burundi in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Burundi. 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Assumption Day (15 Aug), All Saints' Day (1 Nov). 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 22 days, and May the shortest with 19. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 61 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 12, Burundi sits right in the middle of the range, around the 53rd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 4 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 4 April to 6 April (Ntaryamira Day). There are also 4 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.