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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Sudan

The list of Sudan 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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07 Dec 2009 (Reuters-Khartoum) Late last night, the government of Sudan declared today, Monday, December 7, 2009, as a one-off public holiday to coincide with the the final day for voters to register for the upcoming presidential, parliamentary and local elections. • 25 Nov 2009 (Sudan Radio Service-Khartoum) Sudan's National Election Commission has announced that the upcoming general elections, briefly scheduled for April 5, 2010, will now take place on April 11, 2010. • 23 Nov 2009 (United Nations Environment Programme-UNEP) Earlier this morning, the President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), Salva Kiir Mayardit, has launched a clean-up operation of the GoSS capital, Juba, and declared the day a public holiday. • 11 Nov 2009 (The Sudan Tribune-Juba) Last night, Sudan's minister for cabinet affairs in the Government of Southern Sudan, Dr. Luka Tombekana Monoja, announced that the 7-day voter registration public holidays applies only to constitutional post holders (ie. elected officials), and apologized for the error in the text of the President’s order, which by mistake included civil servants. • 08 Nov 2009 (The Sudan Tribune-Juba) The President of Sudan's semi-autonomous Southern Sudan (GoSS), Salva Kiir Mayardit, has issued a presidential order declaring seven days of public holiday, from November 11 to 17, 2009, in order to enable government officials to mobilize for voter registration. • 16 Sep 2009 (The Sudan Tribune-Khartoum) Sudan's Cabinet State Minister, Kamal Abdel-Latif, has announced that the upcoming End of Ramadan public sector holidays would begin on Sunday, September 20, 2009. • 07 Dec 2008 (Sudan Tribune-Juba) Sudan's GOSS ministry of Labour, Public Services and Human Resources Development, has declared eight days of regional public holidays, from December 5 to December 12, 2008. • 05 Nov 2008 (Al-Sahafah-Khartoum) First vice-President of the republic and president of the Government of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has declared Thursday, November 6, 2008, as a one-off public holiday in celebration of the election of Barak Obama. • 30 Jul 2008 (New Sudan Vision-Bor Town) Sudan's GoSS has observed today the first annual occurrence on the Martyrs' Day public holiday commemorating the 2005 death of Dr. John Garang de Mabior. • 11 Apr 2008 (The Sudan Tribune) The Secretariat of the Council of Ministers announced today that Tuesday, April 15, 2008, would be an official public holiday throughout Sudan to coincide with the implementation of the fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Sudan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekends: Officially, Fridays are the only weekly day off work. Government and businesses open at 7:30 a.m. and close at 2:30 p.m. from Saturday through Thursday. • Regional Variations: Despite the official rules, weekly closing dates and rest days do vary geographically, between the Arab/Muslim north and the African/Christian south. In the Southern States, Sunday is the official weekly holiday while Muslims work up to 11:00 a.m. on Fridays. In Khartoum State, beginning January 12, 2008, weekends for both public and private sectors will be 2-day long; Fridays and Saturdays. • Martyrs' Day: This public holiday was initiated, beginning in 2008, by the Jonglei government of Southern Sudan, to commemorate the anniversary of the death, in a 2005 airplane crash, of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, who was at the time First Vice President of Sudan and President of the semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. • Torit Revolution Day commemorates the August 18, 1955, events in Southern Sudan, but is currently not a public holiday in the GoSS. • GoSS stands for the Government of Southern Sudan. • Sudan International Codes SD and SDN (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .sd (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Sudan information and news: Bank of Sudan (Sudan central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Sudan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Sudan), and Wikipedia (includes Sudan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

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