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Gambia
Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Gambia, 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 Gambia is
Christmas Day
In 124 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Africa/Banjul
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- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Gambia’s closures removed and every excluded day named.
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Gambia public holidays in 2026
7 national closures in 2026. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year | Compiled |
| 18 February 2026 | Independence Day | Compiled |
| 20 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Compiled |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day | Compiled |
| 27 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Compiled |
The shape of Gambia’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
7 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Gambia, 2026
5 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on a Monday–Friday week. The corpus holds Sunday as this jurisdiction’s statutory weekly rest — compiled — but a labour code names the day it guarantees, not the days custom adds, so it is cited above rather than computed from.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year | 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 |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day | no leave needed |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Gambia, 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 weekly rest | 1 | compiled | — | 1 named source, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 7 | 7 compiled | 2026-07-18 | |
| Religious observances | 4 | 4 compiled | 2026-07-12 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 7 | 7 compiled | 2026-07-18 | |
| Elections | 10 | — | — |
Not held for Gambia: Optional and restricted days, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, School terms and breaks, Subdivision calendars, 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.
2 named documents, issued by 2 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
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How Gambia keeps time
| Observances | 7 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 0 verified · 0 corroborated · 7 compiled, from 1 named source |
| Languages | English |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-07-18 |
The Gambia dossier
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All 7 dated closures are complete and computed, drawn from published compilations and our own research across 1 named source. Every row names what it rests on. We are retrieving the underlying instruments market by market.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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We do not promise a calendar that never changes. Dates move: authorities declare holidays at short notice and publish corrections of their own. Every record here shows what stands behind it, and when a date changes we correct it, publish it, and tell the people it affects.