Ethiopia public holidays 2026
Ethiopia has 10 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan | Wednesday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
ልደተ-ለእግዚእነ/ ገና |
Nationwide |
| 19 Jan | Monday | Epiphany (Orthodox)
ጥምቀት |
Nationwide |
| 2 Mar | Monday | Adwa Victory Day
የዓድዋ ድል በዓል |
Nationwide |
| 10 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
ስቅለት |
Nationwide |
| 12 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
ብርሃነ-ትንሣኤ/ፋሲካ |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | International Workers' Day
ዓለም አቀፍ የሠራተኞች ቀን |
Nationwide |
| 5 May | Tuesday | Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day
የአርበኞች ቀን |
Nationwide |
| 28 May | Thursday | Downfall of the Derg
ደርግ የወደቀበት ቀን |
Nationwide |
| 11 Sep | Friday | Enkutatash
እንቁጣጣሽ/የዘመን መለወጫ/አዲስ አመት |
Nationwide |
| 27 Sep | Sunday rest day | Meskel (Orthodox)
መስቀል |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April 2 holidays
May 3 holidays
June
July
August
September 2 holidays
October
November
December
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Ethiopia in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Ethiopia. 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: Easter Sunday (12 Apr), Meskel (Orthodox) (27 Sep). 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 18. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 10, Ethiopia sits below the middle of the range, around the 24th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 17 January to 19 January (Epiphany (Orthodox)). 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.