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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Azerbaijan

The list of Azerbaijan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2010, 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 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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16 Feb 2010 (Trend News-Baku) The head of the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers press-service, Akif Ali, has announced that the annual, March 20-24, Novruz public holidays would be extended by 2 days this year, Thursday and Friday, March 25 and 26, 2010. • 03 Feb 2010 (Trend News-Baku) Azerbaijani MP, Elmira Akhundova, has announced that she plans to introduce legislation to add a "Mothers' Day" public holiday to the official list of non-working public holidays in Azerbaijan. • 11 Dec 2009 (Trend News Agency-Baku) Azerbaijani Central Elections Commission Spokesman, Azar Sariyev, has confirmed that the date of the upcoming municipal elections, December 23, 2009, will be a one-off, non-working, electoral public holiday in Azerbaijan. • 05 Dec 2009 (Azeri Press Agency-APA) Yesterday afternoon, Azerbaijan's Parliament (Milli Majlis) passed the pending bill on "Amendments and annexes to the Labor Code", creating a new, "State Flag Day", annual non-working public holiday on November 9th. • 01 Dec 2009 (Trend News Agency-Baku) The head of the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers Press Service, Akif Ali, has announced that the 5-day period from December 31, 2009, until January 4, 2010, would be non-working public holidays in Azerbaijan. • 30 Nov 2009 (Azeri Press Agency-APA) The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has announced the date of the upcoming municipal elections as Wednesday, December 23, 2009. • 27 Nov 2009 (Azeri Press Agency-APA) The Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has issued a decision specifying the official list of 2010 public holidays in Azerbaijan. • 17 Nov 2009 (Azeri Press Agency-APA) The Chairman of Azerbaijan's Social Policy Committee of the Milli Majlis (Parliament), Hadi Rajabli, has announced that, after consideration, his committee has recommended to the plenary session of the parliament, a "draft law on amendments to the Labor Code", making Flag Day a public holiday. • 29 Oct 2009 (Azeri Press Agency-APA) A spokesman for Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Ministers, Akif Ali, has announced that the four last days of November would be non-working public holidays on the occasion of the Gurban Bayrami, aka. Eid al-Adha, public holidays. • 17 Oct 2009 (Azeri Press Agency-APA) A spokesman for Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Intigam Humbatov, has announced that the Novruz public holiday has been included into the UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Azerbaijan 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 Azerbaijan are governed by Chapter V Division 15 Article 105 of the February 1, 1999, labour code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. • Weekend Public Holidays: Beginning in 2006, public holidays that fall on a week-end are moved to the following Monday. • Amendments of the National Holidays were made to the Labour Code at the end of 2006. In particular, Independence Day (18 October), Constitution Day (12 November) and National Revival Day (17 November), remain as holidays in the calendar but have henceforth been considered working days. • Working Holidays: Azerbaijan has other days of note that, although they are sometimes referred to as holidays (and some may have been public holidays in the past), are now working days. Days of Note: • January 20: Memorial Day, also known as Day of Shehids', Martyrs' Day, Remembrance Day, Day of Mourning (regulated by Article 106 of the labour code of the Republic of Azerbaijan). • February 26: Day of Khojali Remembrance • March 31 - Genocide of Azerbaijanis. • Nagorno Karabakh This semi independent territory has its own set of official public holidays: • New Year: December 31, January 1, 2 • Orthodox Christmas: January 6 • Women's Day: March 8 • Genocide Memorial Day [1915]: April 24 • Worker's Solidarity Day: May 1 • Victory, Armed Forces & Shushi Liberation Day [1945, 1992]: May 9 • First Armenian Republic Day [1918]: May 28 • Independence Day [1991]: September 2. • Azerbaijan International Codes AZ and AZE (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .az (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Azerbaijan information and news: National Bank of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Azerbaijan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Azerbaijan), and Wikipedia (includes Azerbaijan 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 Azerbaijan, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Azerbaijan, 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 Azerbaijan. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Azerbaijan 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 Azerbaijan 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.

Solar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, equinoxes, solstices, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict solar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Azerbaijan are based on the geographical location of Baku (latitude 40,4°N, longitude 49,9°E, GMT+4,0 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2011 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

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 2010 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Azerbaijan, 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 Azerbaijan, before planning any trip to Azerbaijan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.