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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for United Arab Emirates, 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 United Arab Emirates is
Prophet Muhammad's Birthday
In 3 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Asia/Dubai
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United Arab Emirates public holidays in 2026
13 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 | Verified |
| 20 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 21 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 22 March 2026 | Eid al-Fitr expected | Compiled |
| 26 May 2026 | Arafah Day expected | Compiled |
| 27 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 28 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 29 May 2026 | Eid al-Adha expected | Compiled |
| 17 June 2026 | Hijri New Year expected | Compiled |
| 26 August 2026 | Prophet Muhammad's Birthday expected | Compiled |
| 30 November 2026 | Commemoration Day expected | Verified |
| 2 December 2026 | UAE National expected | Verified |
| 3 December 2026 | UAE National expected | Verified |
The shape of United Arab Emirates’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
13 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in United Arab Emirates, 2026
7 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 — Saturday and Sunday — which the corpus records as corroborated. Friday is a short day rather than a closed one, and is not counted as time off.
| 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 |
| 23 May – 31 May | 9 days | Arafah Day, Eid al-Adha | take Mon 25 May |
| 26 May – 31 May | 6 days | Arafah Day, Eid al-Adha | no leave needed |
| 28 Nov – 30 Nov | 3 days | Commemoration Day | no leave needed |
| 28 Nov – 3 Dec | 6 days | Commemoration Day, UAE National | take Tue 1 Dec |
| 2 Dec – 6 Dec | 5 days | UAE National | take Fri 4 Dec |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for United Arab Emirates, 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 | — | 9 named sources, in force since 2022, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 12 | 12 verified | 2026-07-12 | |
| Religious observances | 9 | 9 verified | 2026-07-12 | |
| Observed but open | 1 | 1 verified | 2026-07-12 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 13 | 13 verified | 2026-07-12 | |
| School terms and breaks | 24 | — | — | 4 calendars |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 9 | — | — | |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 3 | — | — |
Not held for United Arab Emirates: Optional and restricted days, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Exchange closures, Elections. 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:
United Arab Emirates Government (u.ae) internal python-holidays maintainers
From the Bulletin
What the corpus turned up about United Arab Emirates — published when there is something, and silent when there is not.
How United Arab Emirates keeps time
| Observances | 13 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 13 verified · 0 corroborated · 0 compiled, from 1 named source |
| Languages | Arabic, English |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | none listed |
| Last reviewed | 2026-07-12 |
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