Note
* Saturdays & Sundays: Some holidays may be on either Saturday or Sunday. Saturday morning is, officially, a half working day. However, many businesses are open for the full day, and in some cases not at all. Individuals and/or businesses may still choose to take these holidays on the previous Friday or the following Monday, regardless of the official national policy.

** Muslim Holidays: Muslim public holidays are evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules).

Disclaimer
While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of public holidays in Ethiopia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. Some of the public holidays are based on calendars whose determination is inherently approximate, as described in the footnotes below, which we strongly urge you to read.