Egypt public holidays 2027
Egypt has 10 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
عيد الميلاد المجيد |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jan | Monday | Revolution Day 2011 / National Police Day
عيد الثورة 25 يناير |
Nationwide |
| 25 Apr | Sunday | Sinai Liberation Day
عيد تحرير سيناء |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
عيد العمال |
Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Easter Monday
Sham El-Nessim |
Nationwide |
| 10 Jun | Thursday | Islamic New Year | Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Thursday | June 30 Revolution
ثورة 30 يونيو |
Nationwide |
| 23 Jul | Friday rest day | Revolution Day
عيد ثورة 23 يوليو |
Nationwide |
| 14 Aug | Saturday rest day | Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (Tentative Date) | Nationwide |
| 6 Oct | Wednesday | Armed Forces Day
عيد القوات المسلحة |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 1 holiday
May 2 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 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 105 | 7 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Egypt in 2027
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: Labour Day (1 May), Revolution Day (23 Jul), Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (Tentative Date) (14 Aug). 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 January 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 249working days, so 2027gives you 4 more working days.Plans copied over from last year without adjusting for that difference will be slightly off from January onwards.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 10, Egypt sits below the middle of the range, around the 25th 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 7 January to 9 January (Christmas Day (Orthodox)). 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 2027.
5 holidays change date compared with 2026: Revolution Day 2011 / National Police Day, Labour Day, Easter Monday, Islamic New Year, June 30 Revolution. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.