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Africa Public Holidays 2027

The table below contains the list of official Africa public holidays for the calendar year 2027. The qppstudio worldwide public holidays database for 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, and beyond, is available, immediately, with a professional license.

Date	Weekday	Countries
Jan 1	Friday	Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (DRC), Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, eSwatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Jan 2	Saturday	Botswana, Mauritius, Seychelles
Jan 4	Monday	Congo (DRC), Rwanda
Jan 5	Tuesday	Djibouti, Mayotte
Jan 6	Wednesday	Somalia*
Jan 7	Thursday	Bénin, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Sudan
Jan 8	Friday	Bénin
Jan 11	Monday	Morocco
Jan 12	Tuesday	Algeria, Tanzania
Jan 13	Wednesday	Cape Verde
Jan 14	Thursday	Congo (DRC)*, Morocco
Jan 15	Friday	Congo (DRC)*, Congo (DRC), Malawi
Jan 16	Saturday	Congo (DRC)
Jan 17	Sunday	Congo (DRC)
Jan 19	Tuesday	Eritrea, Ethiopia
Jan 20	Wednesday	Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali
Jan 23	Saturday	Mauritius
Jan 25	Monday	Angola*
Jan 26	Tuesday	Uganda
Feb 1	Monday	Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles
Feb 3	Wednesday	Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe
Feb 4	Thursday	Angola
Feb 5	Friday	Angola, Burundi
Feb 6	Saturday	Mauritius
Feb 8	Monday	Angola
Feb 9	Tuesday	Angola, Cape Verde*
Feb 10	Wednesday	Cape Verde*
Feb 11	Thursday	Cameroon, Liberia
Feb 16	Tuesday	Uganda
Feb 17	Wednesday	Comoros, Libya
Feb 18	Thursday	Gambia, Sierra Leone
Feb 21	Sunday	Zimbabwe
Feb 22	Monday	Zimbabwe
Mar 1	Monday	eSwatini
Mar 2	Tuesday	Ethiopia
Mar 3	Wednesday	Malawi
Mar 6	Saturday	Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritius
Mar 7	Sunday	Côte d'Ivoire, Niger
Mar 8	Monday	Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia
Mar 9	Tuesday	Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mayotte, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda
Mar 10	Wednesday	Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan*, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia
Mar 11	Thursday	Algeria, Comoros, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
Mar 12	Friday	Mauritius, Sudan, Zambia
Mar 15	Monday	Liberia
Mar 20	Saturday	Tunisia
Mar 21	Sunday	Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
Mar 22	Monday	Angola, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
Mar 23	Tuesday	Angola
Mar 25	Thursday	Cape Verde*
Mar 26	Friday	Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, eSwatini, Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Mar 27	Saturday	Botswana, Malawi, Seychelles, South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Mar 28	Sunday	Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Namibia, South Sudan, Sudan*, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Mar 29	Monday	Botswana, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Central African Republic, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, eSwatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mayotte, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Apr 4	Sunday	Angola, Sénégal
Apr 6	Tuesday	Burundi, Congo (DRC)
Apr 7	Wednesday	Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania
Apr 8	Thursday	Mauritius
Apr 9	Friday	Liberia, Tunisia*
Apr 17	Saturday	Gabon
Apr 18	Sunday	Zimbabwe
Apr 19	Monday	eSwatini, Zimbabwe
Apr 24	Saturday	Niger
Apr 25	Sunday	eSwatini
Apr 26	Monday	eSwatini, Tanzania
Apr 27	Tuesday	Mayotte, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo
Apr 28	Wednesday	Zambia
Apr 29	Thursday	Cape Verde*
Apr 30	Friday	Congo (DRC)*, Eritrea, Ethiopia
May 1	Saturday	Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (DRC), Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, eSwatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia*, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
May 2	Sunday	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan*
May 3	Monday	Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda
May 4	Tuesday	Namibia
May 5	Wednesday	Ethiopia
May 6	Thursday	Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, eSwatini, Gabon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mayotte, Namibia, Réunion, Sénégal, Togo
May 8	Saturday	Mayotte, Réunion
May 14	Friday	Liberia, Malawi
May 15	Saturday	Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Libya, Sudan
May 16	Sunday	Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gabon, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, South Sudan, Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda
May 17	Monday	Algeria, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (DRC), Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, South Sudan*, Sudan, Sénégal, Sénégal, Togo, Tunisia
May 18	Tuesday	Gambia, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
May 19	Wednesday	Cape Verde, Somalia, Sudan
May 20	Thursday	Cameroon
May 24	Monday	Eritrea
May 25	Tuesday	Gambia, Guinea, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
May 27	Thursday	Equatorial Guinea, Seychelles
May 28	Friday	Namibia
May 29	Saturday	Nigeria
June		Cape Verde, Kenya
June		Uganda
June		Equatorial Guinea
June		Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Gambia, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania*, Tunisia
June		Equatorial Guinea
June		Burundi
June		Uganda
June		Congo (Republic)
June		Nigeria
June		Nigeria
June		Algeria, Gambia, Mali, Somalia, Sénégal
June		South Africa
June		Seychelles
June		Eritrea
June		Togo
June		Mozambique
June		Madagascar, Somalia
June		Djibouti
June		Djibouti
June		Seychelles
June		Central African Republic, Congo (DRC)
July		Botswana, Burundi, Ghana, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania*
July		Rwanda
July		Algeria, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Zambia
July		Comoros, Malawi, Zambia
July		Comoros, Tanzania
July		South Sudan
July		Sao Tome and Principe
July		Mayotte, Réunion
July		Lesotho
July		Botswana
July		Botswana
July		Gambia, Sénégal
July		Tunisia
July		Liberia, Niger
July		Congo (DRC)*, Morocco, South Sudan
July		Congo (DRC)
Aug		Bénin, Congo (DRC)
Aug		Congo (DRC), Zambia
Aug		Equatorial Guinea, Niger
Aug		Rwanda
Aug		Côte d'Ivoire
Aug		Tanzania
Aug		South Africa, Zimbabwe
Aug		Zimbabwe
Aug		Chad
Aug		Central African Republic, Tunisia*
Aug		Algeria, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Libya, Mayotte, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Tunisia
Aug		Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte, Morocco, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sénégal, Togo
Aug		Burundi, Cameroon, Gabon, Gambia, Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco*, Rwanda, Seychelles
Aug		Gabon
Aug		Morocco
Aug		Mali, Morocco
Aug		Liberia
Aug		Namibia
Aug		eSwatini, Gabon
Sep		Eritrea
Sep		Mauritius
Sep		eSwatini, Sao Tome and Principe
Sep		Mozambique
Sep		Eritrea, Ethiopia
Sep		Libya
Sep		Angola
Sep		Ghana
Sep		Mali
Sep		Guinea-Bissau, South Africa
Sep		Mozambique
Sep		Eritrea, Ethiopia
Sep		Botswana, Sao Tome and Principe
Oct		Botswana, Nigeria
Oct		Guinea
Oct		Lesotho, Mozambique
Oct		Uganda
Oct		Kenya
Oct		Equatorial Guinea
Oct		Burundi
Oct		Tanzania
Oct		Malawi, Tunisia*
Oct		Zambia
Oct		Kenya
Oct		Burundi
Oct		Libya
Oct		Zambia
Oct		Zambia
Oct		Mauritius
Nov		Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, Seychelles, Sénégal, Togo
Nov		Angola, Guinea-Bissau*, Mauritius
Nov		Liberia
Nov		Morocco
Nov		Mozambique*
Nov		Angola, Mayotte, Réunion
Nov		Angola, Comoros
Nov		Côte d'Ivoire
Nov		Morocco
Nov		Chad, Congo (Republic), Mauritania
Nov		Chad, Liberia
Dec		Central African Republic, Chad
Dec		Ghana
Dec		Equatorial Guinea, Seychelles
Dec		Tanzania
Dec		Namibia
Dec		Burkina Faso
Dec		Kenya
Dec		eSwatini, South Africa
Dec		Tunisia
Dec		Niger
Dec		Réunion
Dec		Sao Tome and Principe
Dec		Zimbabwe
Dec		Angola, Congo (DRC), Guinea-Bissau*, Libya, South Sudan
Dec		Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bénin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (DRC), Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, eSwatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Sénégal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Dec		Botswana, eSwatini, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia*, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Dec		Botswana, eSwatini, Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Dec		Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria
Dec		Zambia
Dec		Angola, Congo (DRC), Guinea-Bissau*

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