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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Mali

The list of Mali 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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21 Apr 2009 (VOA News-Bamako) Late last night, the government of Mali declared that today, Tuesday, April 21, 2009, would be a one-off public holiday to enable the population to go and get their electoral registration cards for the upcoming, April 26, communal elections. • 30 Apr 2007 (Sociolingo) Mali declared a national public holiday, late last night, for Monday, April 30, 2007 • 24 Apr 2007 (L'Essor) Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, has been declared a national public holiday in Mali so that people can go and collect their voting cards for the upcoming April 29 presidential election. • 01 Dec 2006 Next presidential elections: first round - April 29, 2007, second round - May 13, 2007. Next parliamentary elections: first round - July 1, 2007, second round - July 29, 2007. • 07 Nov 2006 (Afribone-Bamako) The Catholic Church is again petitioning the Mali government for the recognition of November 1st (All Saint's Day) and August 15th (Assumption) as public holidays. • 04 Jul 2005 (L'Essor-Bamako) By a vote of 112 for, 0 against, and 1 abstention, Mali's National Assembly approved the new law on public holidays (Projet de loi relatif aux fêtes légales en République du Mali). • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Mali 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 Mali were previously jointly regulated by the Labour Code and by the Loi n° 92-020 du 23 septembre 1992 portant Code du travail en République du Mali (Journal officiel, 1992-11-30, Spécial no 8, pp. 2-32). Then, in 2005, all the texts related to public holidays in Mali were grouped into a single law. • Eid al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) and Eid al Fitr (End of Ramadan) may be celebrated for more than 1 day each, however there was no official source confirming that extra days are officially allocated. • Mali International Codes ML and MLI (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ml (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Mali information and news: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) (Mali central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Mali maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Mali), and Wikipedia (includes Mali commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Mali, 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 Mali 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 Mali 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 Mali, 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 Mali, before planning any trip to Mali. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.