Mozambique public holidays 2026
Mozambique has 9 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Dia de Ano Novo |
Nationwide |
| 3 Feb | Tuesday | Heroes's Day
Dia do Heroi Nacional |
Nationwide |
| 7 Apr | Tuesday | Women's Day
Dia da Mulher |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Worker's Day
Dia do Trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jun | Thursday | Independence Day
Dia da Independência |
Nationwide |
| 7 Sep | Monday | Victory Day
Dia da Victória |
Nationwide |
| 25 Sep | Friday | Revolution Day
Dia da Revolução |
Nationwide |
| 4 Oct | Sunday rest day | Day of Peace and Reconciliation
Dia da Paz e da Reconcialição |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Natal |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June 1 holiday
July
August
September 2 holidays
October 1 holiday
November
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Mozambique in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Mozambique. 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: Day of Peace and Reconciliation (4 Oct). 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 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 62 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 9, Mozambique sits below the middle of the range, around the 17th 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 May to 3 May (Worker's Day). There are also 4 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.