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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Algeria

The list of Algeria bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2009, 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 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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24 Jul 2009 (Magharebia-Alger) At the last Council of Ministers, the Algerian governement has announced that, starting next month, Algeria would change its weekends from the current Thursday-Friday to the "mixed" or "semi-universal" Friday-Saturday. • 05 May 2009 (TSA-Algiers) Another large Algerian company, Afia (subsidiary of the Saudi group Savola), has implemented, effective May 3, 2009, the semi-universal Friday-Saturday weekend, instead of the official Algerian Thursday-Friday weekend. • 09 Feb 2009 (El Moudjahid-Alger) The date of Algeria's upcoming presidential election has been announced for April 9, 2009. • 27 Jun 2007 (Magharabia) Renewed debate and furor about the definition of the week-end in Algeria, following Mittal Steel's change to Fridays and Saturdays. • 17 May 2007 (The Middle East Times) Today has been declared a one-off public holiday in Algeria to facilitate participation in the parliamentary elections. • 17 Feb 2007 (The Associated Press) Algeria will hold parliamentary elections on May 17. • 24 Dec 2006 The ministère des Affaires religieuses et des Wakfs announced yesterday, finally, that the date for the Aïd El Adha would be Saturday December 30, 2006. • 27 Apr 2005 (Journal Officiel de la République Algérienne) Algeria's Parliament has passed the "Loi n° 05-06 du 17 Rabie El Aouel 1426 correspondant au 26 avril 2005 modifiant la loi n° 63-278 du 26 juillet 1963 fixant la liste des fêtes légales" which removes June 19 from the list of official public holidays in Algeria. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Algeria public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Algerian public holidays are specified by the law n°63/278 of July 26, 1963, as amended and expanded by ordinances n°66/153 and n°68/149 (Journal officiel, 2005-04-27, n° 30, p. 5). • Weekends weekends in Algeria changed from Thursdays/Fridays to Fridays/Saturdays in August 2009. • Eid al Adha is also called Tfaska Tamoqqart in the Berber language of native North African Berbers. • Berber Calendar and Holidays: The Berber people, known as Imazigen, are the native inhabitants of North Africa. The 4 main Berber holidays are Yennayer (Berber New Year, on January 12-13), Tafsut Imazighen (April 20), Anebdu n Tbexisisin (July 31), and Anebdu n Tyerza (October 31). These occur on fixed Gregorian dates, as the Berber Calendar is a variant of the Julian calendar and hence has a steady 950 years and 12 days offset with respect to western dates. The above-mentioned holidays are not public holidays in Algeria. • Algeria International Codes DZ and DZA (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .dz (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Algeria information and news: Bank of Algeria (Algeria central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Algeria maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Algeria), and Wikipedia (includes Algeria commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Algeria, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Algeria, 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 Algeria. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Algeria 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 Algeria 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 2009 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Algeria, 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 Algeria, before planning any trip to Algeria. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.