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Bank and Public Holidays for The Gambia

The Gambia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, 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.

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17 Jan 2012 (Office of the President of the Gambia-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared Thursday, January 19, 2012, as another non-working public holiday throughout Gambia "in observance of his inaugural ceremony as the President of the Republic of the Gambia". • 24 Nov 2011 (Office of the President of the Gambia-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared tomorrow, Friday, November 25, 2011, as another non-working public holiday throughout Gambia to celebrate the results of today's Presidential election. • 21 Nov 2011 (Office of the President of the Gambia-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared Thursday, November 24, 2011, as a non-working public holiday throughout Gambia on account of the upcoming Presidential election. • 01 Nov 2011 (The Point Newspaper-Banjul) The President of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC) has announced yesterday, that Sunday, November 6th, 2011, would be the date of the upcoming Muslim feast of Eid Al Adha, better known in the Gambia as Tobaski. • 28 Aug 2011 (Gambia Supreme Islamic Council-SIC) Gambia's Supreme Islamic Council has announced that the date of the upcoming Koriteh (End of Ramadan) public holiday in the Gambia would be Tuesday, August 30, 2011. • 12 Aug 2011 (Office of the President of the Gambia-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared Monday, August 15, 2011, as a public holiday throughout Gambia in observance of the Feast of the Sang Marie. • 29 Apr 2011 (Office of the President of the Gambia-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared Monday, May 2, 2011, as a non-working public holiday throughout Gambia in observance of the upcoming Workers Day / May Day. • 21 Apr 2011 (Office of the President of the Gambia-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared Friday, April 22, and Monday, April 25, 2011, as non-working public holidays throughout Gambia in observance of the upcoming Good Friday and Easter Monday. • 17 Feb 2011 (The Daily Observer-Banjul) Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has declared Friday, February 18, 2011, as a public holiday in observance of the 46th Independence Celebration of the Gambia. • 15 Nov 2010 (The Point Newspaper-Banjul) The president of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC), Alhaji Momodou Lamin Touray, has announced that Tobaski (the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice) would be observed tomorrow, Tuesday, November 16, 2010. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the The Gambia 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: Official public holidays in the Gambia were regulated by the Labour Act of 1990. However, since the 1994 coup, and the subsequent 1997 Constitution, the President, holds the executive powers under Section 76 sub-section 1, to declare all public holidays in the Gambia. Current President Jammeh, has made it a habit to declare one-off public holidays. • Eid al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) and Eid al Fitr (End of Ramadan) have, in the past, been celebrated for more than 1 day each (eg. in 2006), however there are no extra days that are officially allocated, on a yearly basis, as public holidays. • Assumption Day, or Sang Marie, as it is called locally, became a public holiday in 1958 but was then dropped in 1976. President Yahya Jammeh restored it shortly after coming to power, in July 1994. • Tamharit (also known as Tamxarit): Contrary to the information found in many sources, this is not the Islamic New Year (in the Gambia at least). The Central Bank of the Gambia does, however observe a holiday that it calls Tamharrat on the first day of the Islamic New Year. • The Gambia International Codes GM and GMB (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .gm (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of The Gambia information and news: Central Bank of The Gambia (The Gambia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (The Gambia maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in The Gambia), and Wikipedia (includes The Gambia commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in The Gambia, 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 The Gambia 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 The Gambia 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 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for The Gambia, 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 The Gambia, before planning any trip to The Gambia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.