Saudi Arabia Business Day Calculator
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 8, 2026
Calculate working days in Saudi Arabia with the Sunday-to-Thursday week (Friday and Saturday off) and the private-sector paid holidays preselected: Founding Day, Eid al-Fitr, Arafat Day with Eid al-Adha, and National Day, the four occasions that Article 24 of the Labour Law's Implementing Regulations sets, on the dates this site's data gives them.
How Saudi Arabia Business Days Are Defined
The calculator counts Sunday to Thursday and leaves Friday and Saturday out. A royal order of 23 June 2013, as the Saudi Press Agency reported it, made Sunday to Thursday the official working days and Friday and Saturday the weekly holiday in all ministries, government bodies and institutions, financial institutions, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the Capital Market Authority and the Saudi Stock Exchange. In the private sector, Article 104 of the Labour Law makes Friday the weekly rest day for all workers, which an employer may replace with another day of the week for some of them after notifying the competent labour office.
The holidays are the private-sector entitlement. Article 112 of the Labour Law gives every worker a fully paid holiday on the eids and occasions the Implementing Regulations set, and Article 24 of the Regulations sets four: Eid al-Fitr for four days from the day after 29 Ramadan in the Umm al-Qura calendar, Eid al-Adha for four days from the Day of Arafat, National Day for one day on the first day of Libra in the Umm al-Qura calendar, and Founding Day for one day on 22 February. Where days of these holidays overlap the weekly rest, Article 24 has the worker compensated with the equivalent before or after those days; it does not say which day. The calculator's data adds no day for an Eid day that falls on a Friday or Saturday: 14 of the 48 Eid holiday days it lists from 2024 to 2029 do, and a count leaves each of them out once, as a weekend day. For the fixed-date days it lists Sunday 23 February 2025 instead of Saturday 22 February 2025 and Sunday 24 September 2028 instead of Saturday 23 September 2028.
Sources for these rules
- Royal Order: Weekly Holiday on Friday and Saturday (Saudi Press Agency, 23 June 2013), item First: the official working days in all ministries, government bodies and institutions, financial institutions, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the Capital Market Authority, the Saudi Stock Exchange shall be from Sunday to Thursday, and the weekly holiday on Friday and Saturday (Saudi Press Agency)
- نظام العمل، المادة الرابعة بعد المائة (1): يوم الجمعة يوم الراحة الأسبوعية لجميع العمال، ويجوز لصاحب العمل، بعد إبلاغ مكتب العمل المختص، أن يستبدل بهذا اليوم لبعض عماله أي يوم من أيام الأسبوع؛ المادة الثانية عشرة بعد المائة: لكل عامل الحق في إجازة بأجر كامل في الأعياد والمناسبات التي تحددها اللائحة (Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development)
- اللائحة التنفيذية لنظام العمل، المادة (24): أولاً 1. إجازة عيد الفطر لمدة أربعة أيام تبدأ من اليوم التالي لليوم التاسع والعشرين من شهر رمضان حسب تقويم أم القرى؛ 2. إجازة عيد الأضحى لمدة أربعة أيام تبدأ من يوم الوقوف بعرفة؛ 3. إجازة اليوم الوطني للمملكة لمدة يوم واحد، في أول يوم من برج الميزان حسب تقويم أم القرى؛ 4. إجازة يوم التأسيس لمدة يوم واحد، في يوم الثاني والعشرون من شهر فبراير؛ ثانياً 1. الراحة الأسبوعية: يعوض العامل عنها بما يعادلها قبل أيام تلك الإجازات أو بعدها (Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development)
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Saudi Arabia Public Holidays
The private-sector paid holidays (Implementing Regulations of the Labour Law, Article 24):
- Founding Day (22 February; the calculator's data lists Sunday 23 February 2025 instead of Saturday 22 February 2025)
- Eid al-Fitr (four days from the day after 29 Ramadan in the Umm al-Qura calendar)
- Arafat Day and Eid al-Adha (four days from the Day of Arafat)
- Saudi National Day (the first day of Libra in the Umm al-Qura calendar; this calculator's data places it on 23 September and lists Sunday 24 September 2028 instead of Saturday 23 September 2028)
Source: Article 112 of the Labour Law and Article 24 of its Implementing Regulations, in the Arabic texts published by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. The Gregorian dates are this site's own conversion, for every year the data covers (2024 to 2029): it places Eid al-Fitr and the Day of Arafat by the Umm al-Qura calendar, which Article 24 names for Eid al-Fitr and for National Day but not for the Day of Arafat, and it places National Day on 23 September. Before relying on an Eid date, check it against the Ministry's announcement for that year. How we determine holidays →
Sources for these dates
- اللائحة التنفيذية لنظام العمل، المادة (24): أولاً 1. إجازة عيد الفطر لمدة أربعة أيام تبدأ من اليوم التالي لليوم التاسع والعشرين من شهر رمضان حسب تقويم أم القرى؛ 2. إجازة عيد الأضحى لمدة أربعة أيام تبدأ من يوم الوقوف بعرفة؛ 3. إجازة اليوم الوطني للمملكة لمدة يوم واحد، في أول يوم من برج الميزان حسب تقويم أم القرى؛ 4. إجازة يوم التأسيس لمدة يوم واحد، في يوم الثاني والعشرون من شهر فبراير؛ ثانياً 1. الراحة الأسبوعية: يعوض العامل عنها بما يعادلها قبل أيام تلك الإجازات أو بعدها (Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development)
- نظام العمل، المادة الرابعة بعد المائة (1): يوم الجمعة يوم الراحة الأسبوعية لجميع العمال، ويجوز لصاحب العمل، بعد إبلاغ مكتب العمل المختص، أن يستبدل بهذا اليوم لبعض عماله أي يوم من أيام الأسبوع؛ المادة الثانية عشرة بعد المائة: لكل عامل الحق في إجازة بأجر كامل في الأعياد والمناسبات التي تحددها اللائحة (Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development)
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Pair these tools with Saudi project workflows
A schedule counted in working days needs the same week and the same holidays. The Project Deadline Calculator stages up to six phases of a project; choose Saudi Arabia there and it counts Sunday to Thursday and leaves out the holidays listed here.
Sources and verification
Official source: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (hrsd.gov.sa) (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on September 8, 2026.
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.
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Sources for these rules
- Royal Order: Weekly Holiday on Friday and Saturday (Saudi Press Agency, 23 June 2013), item First: the official working days in all ministries, government bodies and institutions, financial institutions, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the Capital Market Authority, the Saudi Stock Exchange shall be from Sunday to Thursday, and the weekly holiday on Friday and Saturday (Saudi Press Agency)
- Labour Law (Arabic text published by the Ministry, as read on 2026-10-13), art. 104(1): Friday is the weekly rest day for all workers, and the employer may, after notifying the competent labour office, replace that day for some of his workers with any day of the week («يوم الجمعة يوم الراحة الأسبوعية لجميع العمال») (Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development)
- Emiri Decision No. 57 of 2025, art. 1: the working days in the State are from Sunday to Thursday of each week, and Friday and Saturday are a weekly holiday (Al Meezan, the Qatari Legal Portal)
- Working hours in the public sector: Saturdays and Sundays are the official weekends for the federal government sector; the work week system was announced in December 2021 and became effective from 1 January 2022 (UAE Government Portal)
- Implementing Regulations for Zakat Collection (Minister of Finance Decision No. 1007 of 19/08/1445 H, as amended by Decision No. 1248 of 11/10/1446 H): art. 1, "Saudi" is a person holding Saudi nationality and nationals of a GCC member state who are accorded similar treatment as Saudi nationals; art. 3, the payers: a resident Saudi person who practises an activity under a licence within the Kingdom, a company owned by a Saudi person, the share held by a Saudi partner or shareholder in resident companies, and shares held by non-Saudi shareholders, other than founders, in resident companies listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange; art. 15, Zakat at 2.5% of the Zakat base for a Hijri year, calculated on the actual number of days where the fiscal year differs; art. 102(1), an accounting-books Zakat payer's return and payment within 120 days of the end of the Zakat year, a period that concludes on an official holiday extending to the first working day after it (Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA))
- Income Tax (page last updated 14 August 2025): the provisions of the Income Tax Law apply to resident capital companies with respect to the shares owned by non-Saudi partners, not including shares acquired for speculative purposes through the trading of shares of listed joint-stock companies, and to non-resident persons who conduct business activities in Saudi Arabia through a permanent establishment therein or who derive income from sources within Saudi Arabia (Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA))
- News, 23 April 2025, quoting Article 60 of the Income Tax Law: the tax return must be submitted within 120 days from the end of the tax year represented by the return, and if the end of this period falls on an official holiday the deadline extends to the first day thereafter; and quoting Article 102 of the Implementing Regulations for Zakat Collection on the Zakat return (Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA))
- Taxpayers' Obligations: Zakat and Returns Calendar (EN), the 2026 calendar as served on 2026-10-13: April 30 is the last date to submit and pay Zakat and CIT Returns for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2025 (Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA))
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Saudi Arabia working days by month
Working-day counts, calendar grids, and Saudi public holidays for each of the next 13 months.