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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Iraq, 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
Includes subnational coverage · 3 subdivisions covered.
Live notice Mawlid an-Nabi 2026: there is no single date Thirty-seven jurisdictions appoint the Prophet's birthday and they will not all keep it on the same day. The divergence is visible in the laws themselves, before any announcement is made.The next public holiday in Iraq is
Mawlid al-Nabi
In 3 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Asia/Baghdad
Work with Iraq’s calendar
- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Iraq’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.
- Discover long weekends Every run of consecutive days off in a year, and the bridge days worth taking. Pick Iraq from the list.
- Compare with your other markets Iraq beside the rest — the weeks that work everywhere, and which dates are still estimates.
Iraq public holidays in 2026
10 national closures in 2026, of 25 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Compiled |
| 18 February 2026 | Start expected | Compiled |
| 20 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 21 March 2026 | Nowruz | Compiled |
| 27 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 17 June 2026 | Islamic New Year expected | Compiled |
| 26 June 2026 | Ashura expected | Compiled |
| 14 July 2026 | National Day expected | Compiled |
| 26 August 2026 | Mawlid al-Nabi expected | Compiled |
| 3 October 2026 | Independence Day expected | Compiled |
The shape of Iraq’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
10 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Iraq, 2026
4 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on this jurisdiction’s own weekly rest — Friday — which the corpus records as corroborated.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Feb – 20 Feb | 3 days | Start | take Thu 19 Feb |
| 27 May – 29 May | 3 days | Eid al-Adha | take Thu 28 May |
| 17 Jun – 19 Jun | 3 days | Islamic New Year | take Thu 18 Jun |
| 26 Aug – 28 Aug | 3 days | Mawlid al-Nabi | take Thu 27 Aug |
Next in each subdivision
3 subdivisions of Iraq keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the Calendar API.
| Subdivision | Next | Observance |
|---|---|---|
| Baghdad | 6 January 2027 | Army Day |
| Iqlīm Kūrdistān | 25 September 2026 | Kurdistan Region Independence Referendum Day |
| Karbala | 25 July 2027 | Arbaeen expected |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Iraq, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly rest days | 1 | corroborated | — | 1 named source, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 21 | 21 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Religious observances | 16 | 16 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Optional and restricted days | 4 | 4 compiled | 2026-07-12 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 25 | 25 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| School terms and breaks | 8 | — | — | 4 calendars |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 3 | — | — | |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 4 | — | — | |
| Elections | 9 | — | — |
Not held for Iraq: Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, Exchange closures. 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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From the Bulletin
What the corpus turned up about Iraq — published when there is something, and silent when there is not.
How Iraq keeps time
| Observances | 25 across the national calendar and 3 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 0 verified · 0 corroborated · 25 compiled, from 9 named sources |
| Languages | Arabic, ar-Latn, English, ku |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-03 |
The Iraq dossier
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All 25 dated closures are complete and computed, drawn from published compilations and our own research across 9 named sources. 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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Global Operating Calendar
Iraq beside every other market you work in — the weeks that work everywhere, where office hours overlap, and which dates are estimates rather than facts.
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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.