Mali public holidays 2027
Mali has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 20 Jan | Wednesday | Armed Forces Day | Nationwide |
| 5 Mar | Friday | Leylatoul Qadr (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 9 Mar | Tuesday | Korité (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Thursday | Martyrs' Day | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Workers' Day | Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Tabaski (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 25 May | Tuesday | Africa Day | Nationwide |
| 14 Jun | Monday | Ashura (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 14 Aug | Saturday rest day | Mawloud (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 21 Aug | Saturday rest day | Baptism of the Prophet (Roughly Date) | Nationwide |
| 22 Sep | Wednesday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 4 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 2 holidays
September 1 holiday
October
November
December 1 holiday
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 | 4 | 19 | 152 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Mali in 2027
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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Workers' Day (1 May), Tabaski (Roughly Date) (16 May), Mawloud (Roughly Date) (14 Aug), Baptism of the Prophet (Roughly Date) (21 Aug), 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and March 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 58 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 248working days, so 2027gives you 4 more working days.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 14, Mali sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th 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 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). 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.
7 holidays change date compared with 2026: Leylatoul Qadr (Roughly Date), Korité (Roughly Date), Easter Monday, Tabaski (Roughly Date), Ashura (Roughly Date), Mawloud (Roughly Date) and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.