Iraq public holidays 2027
Iraq has 7 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday rest day | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Army Day | Nationwide |
| 21 Mar | Sunday | Nowruz | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Oct | Sunday | National Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Dec | Friday rest day | Victory Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 3 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about Iraq in 2027
The count uses Friday and Saturday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Iraq. 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.
4 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (1 Jan), Labour Day (1 May), Victory Day (10 Dec), Christmas Day (25 Dec). 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.
August is the longest working month with 23 days, and October the shortest with 20. A gap of 3 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 258working days, so 2027gives you 1 fewer 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 7, Iraq sits below the middle of the range, around the 9th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 2 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 19 March to 21 March (Nowruz). There is also one bridge day: 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.