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Somalia
Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Somalia, 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 · 1 subdivision 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 Somalia is
Mawlid
In 3 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Africa/Mogadishu
Work with Somalia’s calendar
- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Somalia’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 Somalia from the list.
- Compare with your other markets Somalia beside the rest — the weeks that work everywhere, and which dates are still estimates.
Somalia public holidays in 2026
11 national closures in 2026, of 12 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 | Compiled |
| 20 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 21 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day | Compiled |
| 27 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 28 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 17 June 2026 | Islamic New Year expected | Compiled |
| 26 June 2026 | Ashura expected | Compiled |
| 26 June 2026 | Independence Day | Compiled |
| 1 July 2026 | Republic Day | Compiled |
| 26 August 2026 | Mawlid expected | Compiled |
The shape of Somalia’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 Somalia, 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 Friday as this jurisdiction’s statutory weekly rest — verified — 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's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 20 Mar – 22 Mar | 3 days | Eid al-Fitr | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 27 May – 31 May | 5 days | Eid al-Adha | take Fri 29 May |
| 26 Jun – 28 Jun | 3 days | Independence Day | no leave needed |
Next in each subdivision
1 subdivision of Somalia 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sool | 18 May 2028 | Somaliland Independence Day |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Somalia, 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 | verified | — | 2 named sources, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 12 | 12 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Religious observances | 7 | 7 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 12 | 12 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 1 | — | — | |
| Elections | 2 | — | — |
Not held for Somalia: 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.
2 named documents, issued by 2 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Federal Republic of Somalia — listing internal
From the Bulletin
What the corpus turned up about Somalia — published when there is something, and silent when there is not.
How Somalia keeps time
| Observances | 12 across the national calendar and 1 subdivision |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 0 verified · 0 corroborated · 12 compiled, from 2 named sources |
| Languages | English, so |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-03 |
The Somalia dossier
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All 12 dated closures are complete and computed, drawn from published compilations and our own research across 2 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
Somalia 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.