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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Tanzania

The list of Tanzania 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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30 Jun 2008 (The Bank of Tanzania) In accordance with the provisions of Section 64(1) of the Banking and Financial Institutions Act No 5 of 2006, the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) announced earlier today that tomorrow, Tuesday, July 1st, 2008, would be a banking holiday, and that as such, all banks and financial institutions will remain closed on that day even though the day is not a public holiday. • 04 Nov 2005 (Xinhua News Agency) Tanzanian President, Benjamin William Mkapa, has declared Monday, December 14, 2005 a special public holiday for this year to allow Tanzanians to cast their ballots in the postponed 2005 general elections. • 04 Apr 2005 (Xinhua News Agency) The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has made the April 7, Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day, regional public holiday, voted by the Parliament of Zanzibar in 2002, into a full national public holiday, beginning in 2005 (ie. at the end of this week). This follows from Tanzanian President, Benjamin William Mkapa's recent signing of a law that stipulates that there shall be public holidays in honor of the 2 founders of the nation that comprises of the mainland Tanzania and the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar. • 27 Nov 2002 (The Kenya Times) A group of journalists from the three East African Community (EAC) states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, have suggested to declare November 30, the date when EAC was relaunched three years ago, as an annual public holiday common to the region. • 09 Oct 2002 (The Daily News-Dar es Salaam) Assistant Press Secretary to the President Maura Mwingira announced that October 14 will henceforth be an annual public holiday in honor of the Father of the Nation, Julius Nyerere. Earlier that same week, the Zanzibar House of Representatives passed a bill declaring April 7 a new annual regional public holiday, Heroes' Day/Karume Day, in honor of the first Isles' president Shiekh Abeid Amani Karume. • 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 Tanzania are regulated by the The Public Holidays Act (Laws of Tanzania, Section 2, Chapter 35) as supplemented by parliament on an ad hoc basis. • The Dar es Salaam Trade Fair (DITF), usually referred to by it name in Kiswahili, Maonyesho ya Saba Saba, was made a public holiday following the 1990 first multi-party elections. • Heroes' Day is celebrated in Zanzibar only. • Islamic New Year is not an official public holiday but is celebrated by some. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Bank of Tanzania (Tanzania 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).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Tanzania, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Tanzania 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 Tanzania 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.

Fridays (Muslim) : Muslim holidays that occur on a Friday may, in Tanzania, be observed on the following Saturday, either officially, or by some individuals and/or businesses independently of any official national policy regarding bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays.

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 Tanzania, 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 Tanzania, before planning any trip to Tanzania. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our public holidays news and updates pages, or subscribe to our free email newsletters.