Syria public holidays 2026
Syria has 10 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 256 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
عيد رأس السنة الميلادية |
Nationwide |
| 18 Mar | Wednesday | Syrian Revolution Day
عيد الثورة السورية |
Nationwide |
| 21 Mar | Saturday rest day | Mother's Day
عيد الأم |
Nationwide |
| 21 Mar | Saturday rest day | Newroz
عيد النوروز |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday | Easter Sunday
عيد الفصح غريغوري |
Nationwide |
| 12 Apr | Sunday | Easter Sunday
عيد الفصح اليوليوسي |
Nationwide |
| 17 Apr | Friday rest day | Independence Day
عيد الجلاء |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday rest day | Labour Day
عيد العمال |
Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Tuesday | Liberation Day
يوم التحرير |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday rest day | Christmas Day
عيد الميلاد المجيد |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April 3 holidays
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September
October
November
December 2 holidays
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 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 5 | 256 | 2,048 |
What the numbers say about Syria in 2026
The count uses Friday and Saturday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Syria. 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: Mother's Day (21 Mar), Newroz (21 Mar), Independence Day (17 Apr), Labour Day (1 May), 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 22 days, and April the shortest with 20. A gap of 2 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 10, Syria sits below the middle of the range, around the 24th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 3 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 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 2026.