Sudan public holidays 2027
Sudan has 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday rest day | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 7 Jan | Thursday | Coptic Christmas | Nationwide |
| 2 May | Sunday | Easter Sunday
Coptic Easter Sunday |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September
October
November
December 1 holiday
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 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 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 Sudan in 2027
The count uses Friday and Saturday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Sudan. 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Independence Day (1 Jan), 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.
March is the longest working month with 23 days, and February 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 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 4, Sudan sits below the middle of the range, around the 2nd 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 7 January to 9 January (Coptic Christmas). See every long weekend in 2027.
1 holiday changes date compared with 2026: Easter Sunday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.