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Bank and Public Holidays for Mauritius

Mauritius bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, 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.

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24 Dec 2011 (Mauritius News Information Portal-Port-Louis) Mauritius' government has finally announced that it would not declare Tuesday, January 3, 2012, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Mauritius. • 12 Dec 2011 (Mauritius News Information Portal-Port-Louis) Mauritius' Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Xavier-Luc Duval, has announced that it was likely that the government of Mauritius would soon declare Tuesday, January 3, 2012, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Mauritius. • 14 Sep 2011 (Government of Mauritius-Port-Louis) The Government of Mauritius has officially gazetted the list of 2012 public holidays in Mauritius that had been announced last spring. • 20 May 2011 (Prime Minister's Office-Port-Louis) The Cabinet of the Government of Mauritius has released its approved list of the official public holidays in Mauritius for the upcoming calendar year 2012. • 09 Sep 2010 (KZ Mauritius News-Port-Louis) The government of Mauritius has announced that the Shawwal Moon had been sighted earlier tonight and therefore that tomorrow, Friday, September 10, 2010, is confirmed as the date of the public holiday for the End of Ramadan. • 24 Jun 2010 (KZ Mauritius News-Port-Louis) The Prime Minister of Mauritius, Navin Ramgoolam, has asked cabinet to declare Monday, January 3, 2011, as an additional non-working public holiday. • 19 Jun 2010 (Prime Minister's Office-Port-Louis) At its meeting of yesterday Friday, June 18, 2010, the Cabinet of the Government of Mauritius has approved the official list of public holidays in Mauritius for the upcoming calendar year 2011. • 19 Apr 2010 (Prime Minister's Office-Port-Louis) The government of Mauritius has informed the local news media that the date of the upcoming general elections, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, would be a one-off, non-working public holiday. • 16 Apr 2010 (KotZot Mauritius Portal-Ile Maurice) Local sources expect the date of the upcoming general elections in Mauritius, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, to be declared a one-off non-working public holiday. • 24 Jul 2009 (Prime Minister's Office-Port-Louis) The Council of Ministers of Mauritius has approved the list of the official public holidays dates for the calendar year 2010. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Mauritius public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Laws: The list and dates of official public holidays in Mauritius are governed by annual announcements by the Cabinet. • Chinese New Year: Mauritius was the first and, to date, only African country to list Chinese New Year as a public holiday. • Mauritius International Codes MU and MUS (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .mu (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Mauritius information and news: Bank of Mauritius (Mauritius central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Mauritius maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Mauritius), and Wikipedia (includes Mauritius 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 Mauritius, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Mauritius, 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 Mauritius. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Mauritius 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 Mauritius 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 Mauritius, 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 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Mauritius, 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 Mauritius, before planning any trip to Mauritius. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.