Libya public holidays 2027
Libya has 5 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 258 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Feb | Wednesday | Revolution Day
يوم ثورة 17 فبراير |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
عيد العمال |
Nationwide |
| 16 Sep | Thursday | Martyrs' Day
يوم الشهيد |
Nationwide |
| 23 Oct | Saturday rest day | Liberation Day
يوم التحرير |
Nationwide |
| 24 Dec | Friday rest day | Independence Day
عيد الاستقلال |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January
February 1 holiday
March
April
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September 1 holiday
October 1 holiday
November
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 105 | 2 | 258 | 2,064 |
What the numbers say about Libya in 2027
The count uses Friday and Saturday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Libya. 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), Liberation Day (23 Oct), Independence Day (24 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.
March is the longest working month with 23 days, and February 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 63 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 258working days, so 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 5, Libya sits below the middle of the range, around the 5th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 1 stretch of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 16 September to 18 September (Martyrs' Day). 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.