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Bank and Public Holidays for Maldives

Maldives bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for the first 3 months of 2013, 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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30 Apr 2012 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Office of the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Waheed, has released a communique indicating that, as announced last year, Tuesday, May 1, 2012, the date of this year's Labour Day, would be a non-working public holiday. • 16 Mar 2012 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Office of the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Waheed, has released a communique indicating that Monday, March 19, 2012, the date of this year's first sitting of the People’s Majlis, would not also be declared a one-off public holiday. • 22 Feb 2012 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Office of the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Waheed, has released a press communique indicating that Thursday, March 1, 2012, had been declared a one-off public holiday as the first sitting of the People’s Majlis for the current year will be held on that date. • 16 Feb 2012 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Government of the Maldives has announced that it had declared Sunday, February 26, 2012, as an additional official non-working public holiday in the Maldives. • 29 Apr 2011 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has declared that May 1st, Labour Day, would be an official public holiday in the Maldives from this year onward. • 22 Feb 2011 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Office of the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has released a press communique indicating that Thursday, March 3, 2011, had been declared a one-off public holiday as the first sitting of the People’s Majlis for the year will be held on that date. • 04 Jan 2011 (Maldives Department of Information-Male) The government of the Maldives has released its official list of public holidays for the calendar year 2011. • 25 Nov 2010 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Maldives' President's Office has released a press release confirming that Saturday, November 27, 2010, would be a regular working day. • 26 Oct 2010 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) has announced that it, and all banks in the Maldives, would remain closed from Thursday, November 11, until Saturday, November 20, 2010, inclusively. • 21 Oct 2010 (Maldives President's Office Press Release-Male) The President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has declared Sunday, November 14, 2010, as a one-off public holiday. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Maldives public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekends in the Maldives are Fridays and Saturdays. • Bridge Public Holidays: Over the years, the President has often declared Sundays or Thursdays, one-off bridge public holidays, to link a nearby week-end (Fri/Sat) with another public holiday, particularly the multi-day Eid public holidays. • Maldives International Codes MV and MDV (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .mv (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Maldives information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Maldives maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Maldives), and Wikipedia (includes Maldives commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Maldives, 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 Maldives 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 Maldives 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 2013 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Maldives, 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 Maldives, before planning any trip to Maldives. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.