Skip to main content
Business Day Calculator

Business Days in January 2025 for Qatar

January 2025 has 23 working days under the Qatari public holiday calendar. January 2025 contains no Qatari public holidays 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 Qatar.

working days

23

Calendar Days

31

Weekend Days

8

public holidays

0

Work Weeks

4.6

January 2025 business day calendar
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
1
2
3
wknd
4
wknd
5
6
7
8
9
10
wknd
11
wknd
12
13
14
15
16
17
wknd
18
wknd
19
20
21
22
23
24
wknd
25
wknd
26
27
28
29
30
31
wknd

public holidays in January 2025

No Qatari public holidays fall on a weekday in January 2025, so banks and Qatar financial markets keep their regular schedule for the entire month.

Qatar January deadlines

Qatar General Tax Authority (GTA) monthly tax returns for December are due in late January (within 30 days of month-end for most regimes). The Qatar Central Bank operates the Qatar Payment System as the wholesale RTGS system. The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) trading days are Sunday through Thursday.

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

Qatar reporting cycles and business-day rules

Qatari business-day cycles align with GTA (General Tax Authority) monthly tax returns (within 30 days of period end for most regimes) and annual corporate income tax filings four months after year-end. The Qatar Central Bank operates the Qatar Payment System as the wholesale RTGS system on bank business days. The workweek is Sunday through Thursday; weekend is Friday-Saturday. QFC (Qatar Financial Centre) operates under an independent commercial-law regime. QFMA (Qatar Financial Markets Authority) regulates listed-entity disclosures. Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) trades Sunday through Thursday.

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 Qatar 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 23 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year. On the surrounding months, December 2024 has 21 working days and February 2025 has 19. Looking forward, January 2026 has 22 working days under the same Qatari public holiday calendar.

Using this calculator in Qatar

A Doha treasury operator uses the 23-day January 2025 count to align Qatar Central Bank Qatar Payment System settlement with GTA (General Tax Authority) monthly deadlines. A QFC (Qatar Financial Centre) corporate counsel uses business-day math to track QFC Companies Regulations annual-return windows and QFMA listed-entity disclosure cycles. A Doha trading firm uses working-day counts to align Qatar Investment Authority reporting and Qatar Stock Exchange settlement on the Sunday-Thursday cycle.

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 Qatari public?
January 2025 has 23 working days under the Qatari public holiday calendar. The month spans 31 calendar days, of which 8 fall on a weekend and 0 are Qatari public holidays that lands on a weekday. The remaining 23 weekdays are countable as working days for invoicing, deadline tracking, and contract math.
Which Qatar holidays affect January 2025?
January 2025 contains no Qatari public holidays that fall on a weekday. Banks, the central clearing system, and Qatar financial markets keep their normal schedule throughout the month under this calculator's national-only holiday set.
What is Qatar National Sports Day and when does it fall?
Qatar National Sports Day is observed on the second Tuesday of February under a 2011 Emir's decree. It closes banks, the QSE (Qatar Stock Exchange), government offices, and most private-sector employers, with sports and physical-activity events at workplaces and public venues nationwide. The specific date varies by year: February 13 in 2024, February 11 in 2025, February 10 in 2026. The decree was part of Qatar's national wellness initiative and is unique to Qatar among GCC countries.
How does Qatar's Sunday-Thursday workweek interact with GCC counterparties?
Qatar's workweek of Sunday through Thursday aligns settlement and banking with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman (the GCC members with traditional Sunday-Thursday weeks), but creates a one-day mismatch with UAE counterparties (Monday-Friday since 2022) and a two-day mismatch with European or US counterparties. SEPA Credit Transfer to or from Qatar typically requires two-business-day windows accounting for the working-week offset. The Qatar Central Bank publishes settlement calendars to assist cross-border treasury teams.
Why does the business-day count vary year to year?
Two things shift the monthly count for Qatar. First, the day of the week the first of the month lands on changes the count of each weekday. Second, Qatari public 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 23 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year.

Related months and resources

← December 2024 QatarFebruary 2025 Qatar →January 2024January 2026Qatar calculatorQatar holidays 2025Holiday data methodology🇪🇸January 2025 Spain🇮🇳January 2025 India🇵🇭January 2025 Philippines