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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Fiji

The list of Fiji 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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25 May 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) The government of Fiji has issued a communique confirming that the upcoming, May 28, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day public holiday had been cancelled as per the recently promulgated "Employment Relations Regulations 2010". • 24 May 2010 (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved the list of the dates of public holidays for the year 2011, following a submission by Fiji's Minister for Education, National Heritage, Culture and Arts, Youth and Sports, Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, Filipe Bole, taking into account the provisions contained in the Promulgation and Employment Relations (Administration) Regulations 2008. • 23 May 2010 (The Fiji sun-Suva) Fiji's Minister for Education, Filipe Bole, has issued a statement reminding the public, and schools in particular, that the, May 24, John Wesley Day, is not a public holiday in Fiji. • 21 Mar 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) Fiji's Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, has announced that Fiji's Cabinet had decided to amend the "Employment Relations Promulgation Act" and thus remove 2 annual public holidays from the list of official annual public holidays in Fiji. • 16 Mar 2010 (Radio Fiji-Suva) Fiji's Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, has announced that, as a consequence of the recent passage of Hurricane Tomas, the National Youth Day public holiday, set for next Monday, March 22, 2010, has now been declared a normal workday and school day. • 14 Mar 2010 (Reserve Bank of Fiji-Suva) The Reserve Bank of Fiji (Fiji's Central Bank) has declared Monday, March 15, 2010, a one-off public holiday for all financial institutions in Fiji. • 21 Sep 2009 (Fiji Village-Suva) Fiji Employers Federation President, Digby Bosley, has said that Fiji loses millions every year due to the 12 public holidays celebrated in the country, and that the FEF believes the National Youth Day public holiday is something that can be removed. • 03 Jun 2009 (Fiji Government-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved the list of the dates of public holidays for the year 2010, including the always uncertain local dates for the Prophet's Birthday, Diwali, and Youth Day. • 29 May 2009 (Fiji Daily Post-Suva) The president of Suva Retailers Association, Himmat Lodhia, has announced that despite Friday, May 29, 2009, being an official public holiday in Fiji, stores in Fiji's capital, Suva, would be open all day. • 21 May 2008 (Government of Fiji-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved the list of the dates of public holidays for the year 2009. The list pins-down, for 2009, the always uncertain local dates for the Prophet's Birthday, Diwali, and Youth Day, and the announced list also contains some exceptions to the days in lieu rules. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Fiji 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 Fiji are regulated by the Public Holidays Act (Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1931, 5 of 1937) as amended by the Employment Relations Promulgation No. 36 of 2007, sections 64-66, which differentiates between 1) Declared public holidays, 2) Days to be celebrated as public holidays, and 3) Special public holidays. • Weekend Public Holidays: When public holidays fall on a Sunday, then the following Monday is a public holiday unless otherwise ordered by the Minister by notification in the Gazette (Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2003). • Exceptions: Sections 65-6 and 66 of the law of record do mention that if the date set for a public holiday set out in Section 64 falls on another day other than a Monday, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, approve that such public holiday be celebrated on another day and also that the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint a special day or any part of a day to be kept as a public holiday in all workplaces. • The dates of the three Special Public Holidays: National Youth Day, Deepawali and Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday were fixed according to submissions from the respective organizations, namely, Ministry of Youth, Employment Opportunities and Sports, Shree Sanatan Dharam Pratinidhi Sabha of Fiji and the Fiji Muslim League. • Prince Charles' Birthday (The anniversary of the birthday of the Heir to the Throne) was dropped from the list of Fiji public holidays in 2003, following spirited and, at times quite amusing, debates in the Senate . • Rugby World Sevens Series: This annual championship, when won by Fiji, has in the past been marked by the last minute declaration of one-off public holidays . • Death of Leading Politicians: The death of leading politicians, active or retired, often results in the last-minute declaration of a national public holiday of mourning . • Constitution Day used to be a public holiday, after the promulgation of the 1990 Constitution, and then, from 1997 until 2001, the public holiday used to commemorate the 1997 Constitution (July 27). Then, in 2001, the Laisenia Qarase's SDL government repealed the Constitution Day public holiday. • Fiji International Codes FJ and FJI (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .fj (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Fiji information and news: Reserve Bank of Fiji (Fiji central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Fiji maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Fiji), and Wikipedia (includes Fiji commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Fiji, 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 Fiji 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 Fiji 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.

Hindu Calendar Public Holidays : For Fiji, when calculating the date of bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays based on the Hindu Lunar calendar, if the date is expunged (ie. does not occur), then we use the following existing date of the Hindu Lunar calendar. Local practice concerning expunged days may vary regionally as described in many sources, including the 1998 book The Indian Calendric System by G.K. Chatterjee.

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 Fiji, 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 Fiji, before planning any trip to Fiji. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.