Holidays in Egypt 2025
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: October 13, 2026
The 2025 Egypt holiday table below lists 20 dates, each one a day this calculator treats as closed. 16 fall on a working day of the Sunday-to-Thursday week and 4 land on a weekend, leaving 245 working days across the year on the national-only count. A date is not always a holiday of its own: 7 are numbered days of a holiday that lasts more than one day; 4 are marked observed or additional, the day a holiday was moved to or a further day granted with it.
2025 public holidays calendar
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 7 | Tuesday | Coptic Christmas |
| Jan 25 | Saturday (weekend) | Revolution Day (Police Day) |
| Mar 29 | Saturday (weekend) | Eid al-Fitr (eve, 29 Ramadan) |
| Mar 30 | Sunday | Eid al-Fitr (eve, 30 Ramadan) |
| Mar 31 | Monday | Eid al-Fitr (day 1) |
| Apr 1 | Tuesday | Eid al-Fitr (day 2) |
| Apr 2 | Wednesday | Eid al-Fitr (day 3) |
| Apr 21 | Monday | Sham El Nessim |
| Apr 24 | Thursday | Sinai Liberation Day (observed) |
| May 1 | Thursday | Labour Day |
| Jun 5 | Thursday | Arafat Day |
| Jun 6 | Friday (weekend) | Eid al-Adha (day 1) |
| Jun 7 | Saturday (weekend) | Eid al-Adha (day 2) |
| Jun 8 | Sunday | Eid al-Adha (day 3) |
| Jun 9 | Monday | Eid al-Adha (day 4) |
| Jun 26 | Thursday | Islamic New Year |
| Jul 3 | Thursday | June 30 Revolution Day (observed) |
| Jul 24 | Thursday | Revolution Day (1952) (observed) |
| Sep 4 | Thursday | Prophet Muhammad's Birthday |
| Oct 9 | Thursday | Armed Forces Day (observed) |
2025 year summary
Total days
365
Weekend days
104
Public holidays, Sunday to Thursday
16
Working days
245
The 4 weekend dates in 2025 fall on a Friday or Saturday, days the count already excludes, so the working-day reduction comes only from the 16 working-day dates. The table carries the holidays of the Presidency's National Holidays 2026 list: civil holidays (Revolution Day and Police Day, Sinai Liberation Day, Labour Day, June 30 Revolution Day, the 23 July Revolution Day and Armed Forces Day), Islamic holidays that follow the lunar calendar (Eid al-Fitr, Arafat Day, Eid al-Adha, the Islamic New Year and the Prophet's Birthday), Coptic Christmas on 7 January, and Sham El Nessim. The Eid holidays run over several days, so the table lists more dates than holidays. The government's workweek is Sunday-Thursday, with Friday and Saturday as the weekly holiday under Circular No. 1 of 2006.
Sources for these rules
- National Holidays 2025, as the Internet Archive captured the Presidency's page on 6 December 2025: the day taken off for each holiday of 2025, among them Eid Al-Fitr from Saturday 29 March to Wednesday 02 April, Sinai Liberation Day on Thursday 24 April, the June 30 Revolution on Thursday 03 July, the July 23 Revolution Day on Thursday 24 July and Armed Forces Day on Thursday 09 October (Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt (Internet Archive capture of 6 December 2025))
- مجلس الوزراء، 23 مارس 2025: رئيس الوزراء يصدر قرار إجازة عيد الفطر المبارك، من السبت 29 مارس حتى الثلاثاء 1 أبريل 2025، وتمتد حتى الأربعاء 2 أبريل إذا كان الاثنين 31 مارس أول أيام شهر شوال (State Information Service, Egypt (archive of Cabinet statements and the Official Gazette))
- الجريدة الرسمية العدد 15 مكرر أ، 16 أبريل 2025: قرارات رئيس مجلس الوزراء أرقام 1378 و1379 و1380 لسنة 2025 (شم النسيم، تحرير سيناء الخميس 24 أبريل بدلاً من الجمعة 25 أبريل، عيد العمال) (State Information Service, Egypt (archive of Cabinet statements and the Official Gazette))
- الجريدة الرسمية العدد 25 تابع، 19 يونيو 2025: قرارا رئيس مجلس الوزراء 2130 و2131 لسنة 2025 (الخميس 3 يوليو 2025 بدلاً من الإثنين 30 يونيو؛ الخميس 26 يونيو رأس السنة الهجرية) (State Information Service, Egypt (archive of Cabinet statements and the Official Gazette))
- مجلس الوزراء، 16 يوليو 2025: الخميس 24 يوليو إجازة رسمية بمناسبة عيد ثورة 23 يوليو، بدلاً من الأربعاء 23 يوليو 2025 (State Information Service, Egypt (archive of Cabinet statements and the Official Gazette))
- مجلس الوزراء، 29 سبتمبر 2025: الخميس 9 أكتوبر إجازة رسمية بمناسبة عيد القوات المسلحة، بدلاً من يوم الاثنين الموافق 6 أكتوبر 2025 (State Information Service, Egypt (archive of Cabinet statements and the Official Gazette))
- Circular No. 1 of 2006 unifying the weekly holiday on Friday and Saturday (archived copy) (Egyptian Government Portal)
- National Holidays 2026: the day taken off for each holiday, ending with Armed Forces Day on Tuesday 6 October (Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt)
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Holidays not included
This table lists Egypt's nationwide public holidays only, counted on the government's Sunday-to-Thursday week.
Other years
Sources and verification
Official source: Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt (presidency.eg) (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on October 13, 2026.