Mali public holidays 2026
Mali has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 248 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 20 Jan | Tuesday | Armed Forces Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Mar | Sunday rest day | Leylatoul Qadr (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 19 Mar | Thursday | Korité (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Wednesday | Martyrs' Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Workers' Day | Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Africa Day | Nationwide |
| 26 May | Tuesday | Tabaski (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 25 Jun | Thursday | Ashura (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 25 Aug | Tuesday | Mawloud (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 1 Sep | Tuesday | Baptism of the Prophet (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 22 Sep | Tuesday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 1 holiday
September 2 holidays
October
November
December 1 holiday
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 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 13 | 248 | 1,984 |
What the numbers say about Mali in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Mali. 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.
1 holiday lands on a rest day this year: Leylatoul Qadr (Roughly Date) (15 Mar). 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Mali sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th 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 4 days, from 23 May to 26 May (Africa Day, Tabaski (Roughly Date)). There are also 7 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.