Tanzania public holidays 2026
Tanzania has 13 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Mwaka mpya |
Nationwide |
| 12 Jan | Monday | Zanzibar Revolution Day
Sikukuu ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Ijumaa Kuu |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Jumatatu ya Pasaka |
Nationwide |
| 7 Apr | Tuesday | Karume Day
Siku ya Karume |
Nationwide |
| 26 Apr | Sunday rest day | Union Day
Sikukuu ya Muungano |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | International Workers' Day
Sikukuu ya Wafanyakazi |
Nationwide |
| 7 Jul | Tuesday | Saba Saba Day
Saba Saba |
Nationwide |
| 8 Aug | Saturday rest day | Nane Nane Day
Nane Nane |
Nationwide |
| 14 Oct | Wednesday | Nyerere Day
Siku ya Nyerere |
Nationwide |
| 9 Dec | Wednesday | Independence Day
Siku ya Uhuru |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Krismasi |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Siku ya kufungua Zawadi |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 4 holidays
May 1 holiday
June
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 3 holidays
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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Tanzania in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Tanzania. 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.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: Union Day (26 Apr), Nane Nane Day (8 Aug), St. Stephen's Day (26 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 19. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 61 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 13, Tanzania sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th 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 5 days, from 3 April to 7 April (Good Friday, Easter Monday, Karume Day). There are also 2 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.