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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Mauritania

The list of Mauritania 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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Governing Law: Official public holidays in Mauritania are regulated by the 2004 Labour Code, which refers, for specific dates, to the body of laws, specifically the Loi no 92-18 du 7 décembre 1992 fixant les fêtes légales (Journal officiel, 1992-12-30, No 797, p. 544) as amended by the Décret n° 117-2003 du 10 décembre 2003 instituant une journée fériée (Journal officiel, 2003-12-30, n° 1061, p. 480). • Weekends are Fridays and Saturdays . • Tabaski (Feast of Sacrifice) and Korite (End of Ramadan) may very well be celebrated for more than 1 day each, however there was no official source confirming that extra days are officially allocated. • Armed Forces Day (July 10): This is no longer a public holiday in Mauritania, following the the 2007 Presidential election. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: 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 Mauritania, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Mauritania, 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 Mauritania. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Mauritania 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 Mauritania 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.

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 Mauritania, 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 Mauritania, before planning any trip to Mauritania. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.