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Business Days in January 2025 for Egypt

January 2025 has 22 working days under the Egyptian national holiday calendar. January 2025 contains one Egyptian national holiday on a weekday. The month covers 31 calendar days, of which 8 are Friday and Saturday. That count drives invoice cycles, payroll runs, and any contract that defines deadlines as a number of working days in Egypt.

working days

22

Calendar Days

31

Weekend Days

8

public holidays

1

Work Weeks

4.4

January 2025 business day calendar
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Coptic Christmas
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Revolution Day (Police Day)
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public holidays in January 2025

Tue, Jan 7Coptic Christmas

Egypt January deadlines

Coptic Christmas (January 7) closes banks and the Egyptian Exchange (EGX). Revolution Day (January 25, also Police Day) closes banks. The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) monthly VAT returns for December are due by January 31. The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) operates the EGP RTGS system.

Day-of-Week Distribution

The count of each weekday in January 2025. Useful for shift scheduling, weekly recurring billing, and any rota that depends on a specific day of the week landing in-month.

DayCount
Monday4
Tuesday4
Wednesday5
Thursday5
Friday5
Saturday4
Sunday4

Egypt reporting cycles and business-day rules

Egyptian business-day cycles align with ETA (Egyptian Tax Authority) monthly VAT returns due by the last day of the following month and quarterly corporate income tax instalments. The Central Bank of Egypt operates the EGP RTGS system on bank business days. The workweek is Sunday through Thursday; weekend is Friday-Saturday under the Labour Law (Law 12 of 2003). EGX (Egyptian Exchange) trades Sunday through Thursday. The Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) regulates non-banking financial services and listed-entity disclosures. Social Insurance Authority (NOSI) monthly contributions accompany payroll.

January 2025 working days compared by country

Working-day counts vary across countries because each country observes its own public holidays. The table below puts Egypt alongside the other ten supported holiday calendars for January 2025.

CountryBusiness DaysHolidays this month
🇺🇸United States21New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
🇬🇧United Kingdom22New Year's Day
🇨🇦Canada22New Year's Day
🇦🇺Australia21New Year's Day, Australia Day (observed)
🇮🇳India23None
🇵🇭Philippines21New Year's Day, Chinese New Year
🇫🇷France22Jour de l'An
🇩🇪Germany22Neujahrstag
🇯🇵Japan21New Year's Day, Coming of Age Day
🇲🇽Mexico22Año Nuevo
🇸🇬Singapore20New Year's Day, Chinese New Year Day 1, Chinese New Year Day 2

How January 2025 compares year over year

January 2024 also had 22 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year. On the surrounding months, December 2024 has 22 working days and February 2025 has 20. Looking forward, January 2026 has 21 working days under the same Egyptian national holiday calendar.

Using this calculator in Egypt

A Cairo treasury operator uses the 22-day January 2025 count to align Central Bank of Egypt RTGS settlement with ETA (Egyptian Tax Authority) monthly VAT cutoffs at month-end. An Alexandria shipping company uses business-day math to track Suez Canal Authority customs cycles and EGX listed-entity quarterly disclosures. A Giza manufacturing controller uses working-day counts to align Social Insurance Authority (NOSI) monthly contributions and ETA quarterly withholding remittances.

For informational purposes only

This calculator provides general estimates based on business day counting rules. It does not constitute legal advice. Deadlines in legal, regulatory, or contractual matters may be subject to jurisdiction-specific rules, court orders, or statutory exceptions. Always verify critical deadlines with a qualified professional.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many business days are in January 2025 for Egyptian national?
January 2025 has 22 working days under the Egyptian national holiday calendar. The month spans 31 calendar days, of which 8 fall on a weekend and 1 is a Egyptian national holiday that lands on a weekday. The remaining 22 weekdays are countable as working days for invoicing, deadline tracking, and contract math.
Which Egypt holidays affect January 2025?
January 2025 contains one Egyptian national holiday: Coptic Christmas on Tuesday, January 7. Banks and Egypt financial markets close on each of these days. Regional or industry-specific closures may add further non-working days for narrower contract definitions; layer them into the calculator's Advanced options if needed.
Why are there so many Egyptian national holidays?
Egypt observes 16 to 17 public holidays per year, the highest in the Arab world. The calendar combines civil holidays (Revolution Day on January 25, Sinai Liberation Day, Labour Day, June 30 Revolution Day, the 1952 Revolution Day on July 23, Armed Forces Day on October 6), religious holidays from the Islamic lunar calendar (Eid al-Fitr 3 days, Arafat Day, Eid al-Adha 3 days, Islamic New Year, Mawlid al-Nabawi), Coptic Christianity (Coptic Christmas on January 7), and the cultural Sham El Nessim (the Monday after Coptic Easter, dating back to pharaonic times). Many of these close banks, the EGX, and government offices fully.
How are Islamic lunar holidays handled in the calculator?
Egyptian Islamic holidays (Eid al-Fitr, Arafat Day, Eid al-Adha, Islamic New Year, Mawlid al-Nabawi) follow the Hijri (Islamic) lunar calendar and are gazetted by Egyptian Cabinet decree shortly before they fall, based on the official moon sighting by Dar al-Iftaa al-Misriyyah. For years where the official decree has not yet been published, this calculator's data uses astronomical calculations and tags the entries with '(approximate)'. The actual gazetted date may shift by one day from the astronomical prediction. The 2024 Egyptian Cabinet also rationalised some long-weekend bridges by adjusting working days around Sham El Nessim and Sinai Liberation Day.
Why does the business-day count vary year to year?
Two things shift the monthly count for Egypt. First, the day of the week the first of the month lands on changes the count of each weekday. Second, Egyptian national holidays anchored to a fixed date shift their weekday across years. Some years a fixed-date holiday lands on a weekend; some countries shift the observance to an adjacent weekday and some absorb it into the weekend. January 2024 also had 22 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year.

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