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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Sierra Leone

The list of Sierra Leone 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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19 Sep 2009 (Office of the Vice President-Freetown) The Office of the Vice President of Sierra Leone has just issued a press release announcing that the Pray Day (End of Ramadan) public holiday's date had been changed to tomorrow, Sunday, September 20th, 2009. • 17 Sep 2009 (Presidency Office-Freetown) The Office of the President of Sierra Leone has announced that the feast of Eid-Ul-Fitri (Pray Day) will be observed on Monday, September 21st, 2009, and has thus declared Monday, September 21st, 2009, an official public holiday in Sierra Leone. • 07 Jan 2009 (African Press Agency-Freetown) Sierra Leone's national coordinator of the Coalition des organisations de la société civile, Charles Mambu, has indicated that he would soon re-iterate its call for the government of Sierra Leone to declare January 6 an annual commemorative public holiday. • 15 Nov 2007 (SABC) Today was declared a public holiday in Sierra Leone on the occasion of the inauguration of President Ernest Bai Koroma. Koroma, the leader of the All People's Congress (APC) and who was minority leader in parliament prior to becoming President in last September's elections. • 05 Jun 2007 (Pravda) Sierra Leone President, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, declared three days of national mourning for the dead, following a weekend helicopter crash that killed 22 people, most of them Togolese. • 01 Dec 2006 Next presidential and legislative elections - July 28, 2007. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Sierra Leone public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Sierra Leone International Codes SL and SLE (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .sl (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Sierra Leone information and news: Bank of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Sierra Leone maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Sierra Leone), and Wikipedia (includes Sierra Leone commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

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