workdaysPublic holidays and weekends in Africa today
Right now it is in 1 country and in 53 countries. Of the 54 countries with a calendar: 2 are at work, 51 are on their weekend and 1 has a public holiday.
- Working (2)
- Weekend (51)
- Public holiday (1)
- No data
Public holidays right now
| Country | Holiday | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Guinea-Bissau | Readjustment Movement Day |
On their weekend
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
When do the most countries in Africa have a public holiday?
In 2026 the map shows the most countries on a public holiday on these days:
- Labour Day on 1 May in 52 countries, all but Liberia and Sudan
- New Year's Day on 1 January in 51 countries, all but Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya
- Christmas Day on 25 December in 45 countries, all but Algeria, the Comoros, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia and Tunisia
Of the countries with one calendar for the whole country, the most public holidays on working days in 2026 are in Egypt (17), the fewest in Djibouti and the Republic of the Congo (7).
Which countries have a Friday-Saturday weekend?
Of the 54 countries on the map, 5 rest on Friday and Saturday: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya and Sudan.
Somalia rests on Friday alone. The other 48 rest on Saturday and Sunday. On an ordinary Friday, 6 countries are on their weekend.
Which countries work on Sunday?
Sunday is an ordinary working day in 6 countries: the 5 with a Friday-Saturday weekend, and Somalia.
How the map counts a day
Each country is on its own date: today there, by the clock in its capital. A day picked on the strip shows that date in every country.
Every country takes the colour its own calendar gives the day: at work, on its weekend or on a public holiday. A public holiday on a weekend day takes the holiday's colour, as in the country's calendar. Days off for one group only, such as civil servants, and shortened working days are working days on the map. So is a Saturday or Sunday officially made a working day.
In 2026 the holiday colour appears somewhere on 205 of the 365 days, and on 1 May in 52 countries, more than on any other. On the other 160 days no country has a public holiday on a working day.
A country too small to draw at this scale is a dot.
To count the working days between two dates in one country, use the working days calculator on workdays.space.