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Bank and Public Holidays for Kuwait

Kuwait 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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11 May 2012 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has announced that it had declared Sunday, June 17, 2012, as a non-working public holiday for the upcoming Israa and Meraj (Prophet's Ascension) annual public holiday. • 23 Feb 2012 (Al-Qabas-Kuwait City) The Kuwait Stock Exchange announced that it would be closed Sunday and Monday, February 26 and 27, 2012, for the National Day and Liberation Day holidays. • 16 Feb 2012 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has announced that it had declared Saturday and Sunday, February 25 and 26, 2012, as non-working public holidays for the upcoming National Day and Liberation Day annual public holidays. • 19 Jan 2012 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has announced that it had declared Thursday, February 2, 2012, as a the non-working public holiday for the upcoming Prophet's Birthday annual public holiday, in replacement of Saturday, February 4, 2012, which falls during the Kuwaiti weekend in 2012. • 22 Dec 2011 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has announced a 3-day period of public sector holidays for the upcoming end of 2011 and 2012 Gregorian New Year. • 23 Nov 2011 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Ali Al-Rashid, has announced that the Kuwaiti Cabinet had decided to declare Saturday and Sunday, November 26 and 27, 2011, as non-working public holidays at all ministries and state departments on account of the upcoming Hijra New Year 1433. • 20 Nov 2011 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) Reports from the Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission are that it has submitted an official letter to the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers asking it to declare Saturday, November 26, 2011, as a non-working public holiday in commemoration of the upcoming Hijra New Year. • 03 Nov 2011 (Al-Qabas-Kuwait City) The Kuwait Stock Exchange announced that it would remain closed from Sunday to Tuesday, November 6 to Saturday, November 12, 2011, inclusively, on account of the upcoming Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) non-working public holidays in Kuwait. • 18 Oct 2011 (Kuwait Civil Service Commission-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Ali Al-Rashid, has announced that at yesterday's meeting, the Kuwaiti Cabinet had decided to declare Wednesday and Thursday, November 9 and 10, 2011, as additional non-working public holidays at all ministries and state departments. • 29 Aug 2011 (Al-Qabas-Kuwait City) The Kuwaiti Stock Exchange has announced that it would close from Tuesday, August 30, until Sunday, September 4, 2011, inclusively, on account of the upcoming Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan) public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Kuwait public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekends: Kuwait moved to 5-day workweeks in the early 1990's and, although many Muslim countries have changed their weekend days in 2005 and 2006, weekends in Kuwait remained on Thursdays and Fridays, until Saturday, September 1st, 2007, on which date weekends in Kuwait were changed to Friday and Saturday . • Mid-Week Public Holidays: There are special rules that govern the moving of the following four public holidays: Islamic New Year, The Prophet's Birthday, The Prophet's Ascension, and New Year's Day, according to a cabinet resolution in May 2001. • Kuwait International Codes KW and KWT (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .kw (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Kuwait information and news: Central Bank of Kuwait (Kuwait central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Kuwait maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Kuwait), and Wikipedia (includes Kuwait commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Kuwait, 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. Aft=Afternoon, Arm=Armenian, Bah=Bahai, Bnk=Banks and most financial institutions, Bud=Buddhist, Cat=Catholic, Chr=Christian, Cop=Coptic, Eve=Evening, Gov=Government services and civil servants, Hin=Hindu, Jew=Jewish, Lin=Linguistic or ethnic groups, Mor=Morning, Mun=Municipal, Mus=Muslim, Orth=Orthodox, Othr=Miscellaneous partial observances (usually described in the Additional Information section of this page), Prt=Protestant, Reg=Regional, Rel=Other Religion, Sch=Schools and universities, Sik=Sikh.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Kuwait 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 Kuwait 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 Kuwait, 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 Kuwait, before planning any trip to Kuwait. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.