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Bank and Public Holidays for Ghana

A preview of the Ghana 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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03 Mar 2019 Ghana Passes Bill To Amend Public Holidays (Ghana News Agency-Accra) The Parliament of Ghana has approved the "Public Holiday (Amendment) Bill" despite a walkout by the opposition. • 06 Feb 2019 Ghana 2019 Public Holidays Announced (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's government has released its annual list of official non-working lay and religious non-working public holidays in Ghana for the calendar year 2019. • 28 Dec 2018 Ghana Public Holiday January 7 (Ghana News Agency-Accra) The Government of Ghana has declared Monday, January 7, 2019, as the Constitution Day public holiday. • 14 Dec 2018 Ghana Bill To Amend Public Holidays (Ghana News Agency-Accra) The NPP government of Ghana has tabled an amendment to the Public Holidays Act to cancel the Republic Day and African Union Day public holidays on Ghana, marked annually on July 1 and May 25 respectively. • 19 Sep 2018 Ghana Public Holiday September 21 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister of the Interior, Ambrose Dery, has issued a statement informing the public that Friday, September 21, 2018, had been declared as the annual non-working public holiday in Ghana, on account of the annual statutory public holiday for Founders Day in Ghana. • 29 Jun 2018 Ghana Republic Public Holiday July 2 (Ghana News Agency-Accra) Ghana's President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has declared Monday, July 2, 2018, as a one-off statutory non-working public holiday in Ghana on account of the upcoming Republic Day annual public holiday, which falls on a Sunday this year, and should be observed as a non-working public holiday throughout Ghana. • 14 Jun 2018 Ghana 2018 Ramadan Public Holiday (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery, has announced that Friday, June 15, 2018, had been declared as the date of the upcoming 2018 annual Eid-Ul-Fitr (End of Ramadan) non-working public holidays in Ghana. • 22 Apr 2018 Ghana Public Holiday May 1 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister of the Interior, Ambrose Dery, has issued a statement informing the public that Tuesday, May 1, 2018, had been declared as the annual non-working public holiday in Ghana, on account of the annual statutory public holiday for May Day in Ghana. • 23 Mar 2018 Ghana 2018 Easter Public Holidays (Ghana News Agency-Accra) Ghana's Minister of the Interior, via Ambrose Derry, has announced that Friday, March 30, and Monday, April 1, 2018, had once again been declared statutory non-working public holidays in Ghana on account of the upcoming annual Good Friday and Easter Monday public holidays in Ghana. • 30 Dec 2017 Ghana 2018 Public Holidays Announced (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's government has released its annual list of official non-working lay and religious non-working public holidays in Ghana for the calendar year 2018. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Ghana 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 Ghana are regulated by section 1 of the Public Holidays Act, 2001 (Act 601), which replaced the 1995 Public Holiday (Amendment) Act (Act 507), which in turn had amended the Public Holidays Law, 1988 (PNDCL 220). • Eid al Fitr was made a public holiday in Ghana following the 1995 Public Holiday (Amendment) Act (Act 507). • Farmers' Day: Employing around 60 percent of Ghana’s work force, agriculture is a labour-intensive sector, and farming still accounts for some 37 percent of Ghana’s gross domestic product, and 35 percent of its export earnings. The first Farmers' Day, in Ghana, was held at Osino in the Eastern Region, in 1985 . • June 4: June 4 was a public holiday until 2000 when it was removed from the list of public holidays by the NPP (New Patriotic Party). A last-ditch effort was made in late-May 2001, by the NDC (National Democratic Congress) to restore it, but the amendment failed to pass on June 1, 2001, and the issue has not resurfaced seriously since then. • Ghana International Codes GH and GHA (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .gh (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Ghana information and news: Bank of Ghana (Ghana central bank), UnitedHealthcare Global (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Ghana maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Ghana), and Wikipedia (includes Ghana commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Ghana, 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.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Ghana 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 Ghana 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).

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 Ghana, 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 Ghana, before planning any trip to Ghana. 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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