Ethiopia public holidays 2027
Ethiopia has 10 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 254 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Christmas Day (Orthodox)
ልደተ-ለእግዚእነ/ ገና |
Nationwide |
| 19 Jan | Tuesday | Epiphany (Orthodox)
ጥምቀት |
Nationwide |
| 2 Mar | Tuesday | Adwa Victory Day
የዓድዋ ድል በዓል |
Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
ስቅለት |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | International Workers' Day
ዓለም አቀፍ የሠራተኞች ቀን |
Nationwide |
| 2 May | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
ብርሃነ-ትንሣኤ/ፋሲካ |
Nationwide |
| 5 May | Wednesday | Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day
የአርበኞች ቀን |
Nationwide |
| 28 May | Friday | Downfall of the Derg
ደርግ የወደቀበት ቀን |
Nationwide |
| 11 Sep | Saturday rest day | Enkutatash
እንቁጣጣሽ/የዘመን መለወጫ/አዲስ አመት |
Nationwide |
| 27 Sep | Monday | Meskel (Orthodox)
መስቀል |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April 1 holiday
May 4 holidays
June
July
August
September 2 holidays
October
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 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 | 2,032 |
What the numbers say about Ethiopia in 2027
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.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: International Workers' Day (1 May), Easter Sunday (2 May), Enkutatash (11 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and May 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 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 253working days, so 2027gives you 1 more working day.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, Ethiopia sits below the middle of the range, around the 25th 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 3 days, from 30 April to 2 May (Good Friday, International Workers' Day, Easter Sunday). 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.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Sunday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.