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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Azerbaijan

The list of Azerbaijan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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15 Jun 2008 (Today.az-Baku) The National Day of Human Rights will be marked as a national day in Azerbaijan, for the first time, on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Despite the manner in which the official statement was worded, this will be a regular working day (as is the December 10, annual, International Human Rights Day). • 08 Mar 2008 (APA + ANS) The Cabinet of Ministers announced that the weekend days of March 29-30, would be regular working days, in exchange of which, Thursday and Friday, March 27-28, 2008, will be one-off bridge public holidays, so that the Novruz public holiday can stretch into 9 consecutive days, from March 20 to March 28, inclusively. • 08 Jan 2008 (Azeri Press Agency) In an announcement similar to that of Iran (our post of January 6), the Minister of Education, has signed an order to extend the holiday period for schools and preschools by 3 days, so that there would be no school on January 7, 8 and 9. The decision does not apply to special vocational schools and universities. • 19 Dec 2007 (Azeri Press Agency) The Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan announced that it had replaced the 2 non-working days of the weekend of December 29-30, 2007, by Thursday and Friday, January 3-4, 2008, so that Azeris will have 7 consecutive days off, from Monday December 31, 2007 to Sunday, January 6, 2008, inclusively. • 10 Dec 2007 (Azerbaijan Business Center) The Cabinet Ministers of Azerbaijan announced that December 20 and 21 would be the dates for the public holiday celebration of religious holiday Gurban Bayrami (Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice). Whether Saturday, December 22, as a working day or not, is left to each employer's discretion. • 08 Dec 2007 (Azerbaijan Business Center) Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Ministers issued decree 198 which adds 2 extra days to the 2008 Novruz Bayram (Persian New Year) public holiday, which will therefore run from March 20 to March 26, 2008, inclusively. • 08 Dec 2006 (Trend News agency) During a regular sitting of the Azerbaijan Milli Majlis (Parliament), amendments to the Labour Code were passed with the aim to celebrate some holidays longer, particularly those connected with national and spiritual values. Novruz Bayrami (the Spring Holiday) will henceforth be celebrated for 5 days, while the Id-al-Atkha (feast of sacrifice) will now be celebrated for two days. As compensation, 3 holidays will now be classed as working days; Independence Day (October 18), Constitution Day (November 12) Revival Day (November 17). • More News Updates For up-to-the-minute news about public holidays trends and changes, visit our public holidays news and updates pages, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Azerbaijan are governed by Chapter V Division 15 Article 105 of the February 1, 1999, labour code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. • Week-end Public Holidays: Beginning in 2006, public holidays that fall on a week-end are moved to the following Monday. • Amendments of the National Holidays were made to the Labour Code at the end of 2006. In particular, Independence Day (18 October), Constitution Day (12 November) and National Revival Day (17 November), remain as holidays in the calendar but will henceforth be considered working days. • Azerbaijan has other days of note that, although they are sometimes referred to as holidays (and some may have been public holidays in the past), are now working days. • Days of Note: January 20: Memorial Day, also known as Day of Shehids', Martyrs' Day, Remembrance Day, Day of Mourning. February 26: Day of Khojali Remembrance March 31 - Genocide of Azerbaijanis. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: National Bank of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Azerbaijan, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Azerbaijan, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Azerbaijan. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Azerbaijan that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Azerbaijan were 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). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Solar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, equinoxes, solstices, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict solar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Azerbaijan are based on the geographical location of Baku (latitude 40,4°N, longitude 49,9°E, GMT+4,0 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2009 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Azerbaijan, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Azerbaijan, before planning any trip to Azerbaijan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our public holidays news and updates pages, or subscribe to our free email newsletters.