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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Cameroon, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
The next public holiday in Cameroon is
Mawlid
In 3 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Africa/Douala
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- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Cameroon’s closures removed and every excluded day named.
- Find the next business day Add or subtract N working days from a date, skipping weekends and closures — for filing and settlement dates.
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Cameroon public holidays in 2026
11 national closures in 2026. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Compiled |
| 11 February 2026 | Youth Day expected | Compiled |
| 20 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day expected | Compiled |
| 14 May 2026 | Ascension Day expected | Verified |
| 20 May 2026 | Independence Day expected | Compiled |
| 27 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 15 August 2026 | Assumption expected | Compiled |
| 26 August 2026 | Mawlid expected | Compiled |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Compiled |
The shape of Cameroon’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
11 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Cameroon, 2026
6 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. National closures only, computed on a Monday–Friday week — an assumption, not something the corpus records for this jurisdiction.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 20 Mar – 22 Mar | 3 days | Eid al-Fitr | no leave needed |
| 3 Apr – 5 Apr | 3 days | Good Friday | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 14 May – 17 May | 4 days | Ascension Day | take Fri 15 May |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day | no leave needed |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Cameroon, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory closures | 11 | 4 verified · 7 compiled | 2026-08-21 | |
| Religious observances | 7 | 4 verified · 3 compiled | 2026-08-21 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 11 | 4 verified · 7 compiled | 2026-08-21 | |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 6 | — | — | |
| Elections | 7 | — | — |
Not held for Cameroon: Statutory weekly rest, Optional and restricted days, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, School terms and breaks, Exchange closures, Tax deadlines, School terms and breaks. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
3 named documents, issued by 3 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
République Unie du Cameroun — Journal Officiel (facsimile republished by LEGECAM) internal python-holidays maintainers
From the Bulletin
What the corpus turned up about Cameroon — published when there is something, and silent when there is not.
How Cameroon keeps time
| Observances | 11 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 4 verified · 0 corroborated · 7 compiled, from 3 named sources |
| Languages | English, French |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-21 |
The Cameroon dossier
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4 of 11 dated closures were read from the instrument itself; the rest come from independent secondary sources or published compilations. Across 3 named sources, and every row says which.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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