Egypt public holidays 2026
Egypt has 15 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 249 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan | Wednesday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
عيد الميلاد المجيد |
Nationwide |
| 29 Jan | Thursday | Revolution Day 2011 / National Police Day
عيد الثورة 25 يناير |
Nationwide |
| 13 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Sham El-Nessim |
Nationwide |
| 25 Apr | Saturday rest day | Sinai Liberation Day
عيد تحرير سيناء |
Nationwide |
| 7 May | Thursday | Labour Day
عيد العمال |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Wednesday | Eid Al-Adha | Nationwide |
| 28 May | Thursday | Eid Al-Adha | Nationwide |
| 29 May | Friday rest day | Eid Al-Adha | Nationwide |
| 30 May | Saturday rest day | Eid Al-Adha | Nationwide |
| 31 May | Sunday | Eid Al-Adha | Nationwide |
| 18 Jun | Thursday | Islamic New Year | Nationwide |
| 2 Jul | Thursday | June 30 Revolution
ثورة 30 يونيو |
Nationwide |
| 23 Jul | Thursday | Revolution Day
عيد ثورة 23 يوليو |
Nationwide |
| 26 Aug | Wednesday | Prophet Muhammad's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 6 Oct | Tuesday | Armed Forces Day
عيد القوات المسلحة |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 2 holidays
May 6 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 2 holidays
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 136 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 | 1,992 |
What the numbers say about Egypt in 2026
The count uses Friday and Saturday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Egypt. 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.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: Sinai Liberation Day (25 Apr), Eid Al-Adha (29 May), Eid Al-Adha (30 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 May the shortest with 17. A gap of 6 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 59 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 15, Egypt sits above the middle of the range, around the 82nd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 27 May to 31 May (Eid Al-Adha). There are also 3 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.