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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Kuwait

The list of Kuwait 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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22 Feb 2010 (Kuwait Al Youm-Kuwait Gazette) The long-awaited new Labour Law was gazetted yesterday in the official Kuwait Gazette, finally giving the private sector of Kuwait (almost) as many public holidays as the public sector. • 15 Feb 2010 (The Kuwait Times-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Civil Service Commission Chairman, Abdulaziz Al-Zibn, has confirmed that the upcoming National Day and Liberation Day public holidays would last for 5 consecutive days, from Thursday, February 25, until Monday, March 1st, 2010, inclusively. • 13 Feb 2010 (Al Rai-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Cabinet is reported to be considering declaring Monday, March 1, 2010, a public holiday, thereby extending the upcoming month-end public holidays to 5 consecutive days. • 02 Feb 2010 (The Arab Times-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Undersecretary of the Civil Service Commission (CSC), Mohammed Al-Roumi, has announced four days of public holidays, from Thursday February 25 until Sunday, February 28, 2010. • 25 Dec 2009 (Kuwait Times-Kuwait City) Kuwait's National Assembly has unanimously passed the long-debated new labour law giving the private sector much improved rights and benefits, including an increased number of public holidays. • 17 Dec 2009 (Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs-Kuwait) The President of Kuwait's Civil Service Bureau, Abdulaziz Al-Zabin, has announced that Sunday, December 20, 2009, would be a day in lieu public holiday to compensate this year's New Hijri Year occurring on Friday, December 18, 2009, which is a weekend day. • 16 Dec 2009 (National NCS) We have received unconfirmed reports that Kuwait had declared a day in lieu public holiday on Sunday, December 20, 2009, in conjunction with the Islamic new year 1431. • 21 Nov 2009 (The Kuwait Times-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Labor and Health Committee has forwarded the draft law on the revisions to the labour code, to the Parliament after reducing the number of private sector holidays in the bill from 13 to 11. • 19 Nov 2009 (The Arab Times-Kuwait City) Kuwait's Civil Service Commission (CSC) has announced that pursuant to the recent Cabinet Decision, the Eid Al-Adha public holidays would begin with Arafat Day, on Thursday, November 26, 2009. • 12 Nov 2009 (Zawya-Kuwait City) Kuwait's National Assembly's health and labor committee has approved, and forwarded for its second reading, the new private sector labor law which would align private sector public holidays, and their duration, on the public sector holidays schedule. • 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 2010 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 blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.