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Bank and Public Holidays for Fiji

A preview of the Fiji bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2023, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers.

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13 Nov 2018 Fiji Public Holiday November 14 (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Government of Fiji has issued a reminder of the previously-announced Wednesday, November 14, 2018, additional one-off non-working public holiday in Fiji on account of the upcoming general election, and of the details of its observance. • 13 Sep 2018 Fiji 2019 Public Holidays Announced And Gazetted (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved, through a Gazette Notice, dated from a week ago, its annual list of the dates of official non-working public holidays in Fiji for the upcoming calendar year 2019. • 14 Aug 2017 Fiji 2018 Public Holidays Announced And Gazetted (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved, through Gazette Notice No. 79, dated from last Friday, its annual list of the dates of official non-working public holidays in Fiji for the upcoming calendar year 2018. • 06 Dec 2016 Fiji 2017 Public Holidays Gazetted (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has officialized by publishing it, an amended version of the previously-announced Gazette Notice, which lists the dates of the official non-working public holidays in Fiji for the upcoming calendar year 2017. • 20 Sep 2016 Fiji 2017 Public Holidays Announced (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved, through Gazette Notice No. 68, dated yesterday, its annual list of the dates of official non-working public holidays in Fiji for the upcoming calendar year 2017. • 05 Sep 2016 Fiji Public Holiday September 7 (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Government of Fiji has issued a reminder of the previously-announced Wednesday, September 7, 2016, annual non-working public holiday in Fiji on account of the upcoming first observance of Fiji's newest non-working public holiday, Constitution Day. • 12 Aug 2016 Fiji Public Holiday August 22 (Ministry of Information-Suva) Fiji's Acting Prime Minister, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has confirmed that Fiji's Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, had declared a one-off non-working public holiday in Fiji, on Monday, August 22, 2016, to celebrate it's Olympic Team's victories in Rio. • 01 May 2016 Fiji November 11 Public Holiday Ruled-Out (Ministry of Information-Suva) Fiji's Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, has announced that there would be no one-off, or otherwise, non-working public holiday in Fiji, on Friday, November 11, 2016, to commemorate the centennial of the end of the arrival of Indian indentured laborers to Fiji. • 25 Mar 2016 Fiji Cancels March 30 Public Holiday (Ministry of Information-Suva) Fiji's Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, Semi Koroilavesau, has announced that the upcoming March 30, 2016, non-working public holiday in Fiji, as set out in the "Gazette Notice No.68" listing the annual non-working public holidays in Fiji in 2016, had been canceled ("All workers, employers and the public are advised that there will not be a public holiday on Wednesday next week"). • 18 Jan 2016 Fiji 2016 Public Holidays Amended (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet issued an amended version of the previously-released and gazetted list of the dates of the official non-working public holidays in Fiji for the calendar year 2016. • 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), UnitedHealthcare Global (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).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Fiji, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Fiji, 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 Fiji.

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).

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 2023 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 worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.

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