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United Arab Emirates

Accurate, up-to-date public holidays, bank holidays, and observances in the United Arab Emirates for 2023 ready to be integrated into your application.

The UAE, sometimes called the Emirates, is the State of the United Arab Emirates. This country is located in Western Asia. Home to the man made islands in Dubai, this country was founded on December, 2, 1971. The official language is Arabic, and Islam is the official religion.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
January 1st Sunday New Year's Day Long weekend.
February 18th Saturday Muhammad's Ascension to Heaven
March 20th Monday March Equinox
March 21st Tuesday Mother's Day
April 20th Thursday Day before the Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
April 21st Friday Festival of Breaking the Fast
April 22nd Saturday Second Day of the Festival of Breaking the Fast
April 23rd Sunday Third Day of the Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
June 21st Wednesday Father's Day
June 21st Wednesday June Solstice
June 27th Tuesday Day of Arafah
June 28th Wednesday Feast of the Sacrifice
June 29th Thursday Second Day of the Feast of the Sacrifice Long weekend.
June 30th Friday Third Day of the Feast of the Sacrifice
July 21st Friday Islamic New Year's Day
September 23rd Saturday September Equinox
September 29th Friday Birth of the Prophet
December 1st Friday Commemoration Day
December 2nd Saturday National Day
December 3rd Sunday Day after National Day Long weekend.
December 22nd Friday December Solstice
December 31st Sunday New Year's Eve
Public holidays (national, legal, government, civic, etc) are denoted in bold.
Holiday data for far-reaching years is subject to change due to laws and government decrees.
Long weekends are based on non-working days and not Saturday and Sunday explicitly.

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To retrieve this list of holidays, simply make a GET request to /v1/holidays:
GET /v1/holidays
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$ curl -G -d country="AE" -d year="2023" -d pretty
-d key="__YOUR_API_KEY__" "https://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays"
import "github.com/joshtronic/go-holidayapi"
hapi := holidayapi.NewV1("__YOUR_API_KEY__")
holidays, err := hapi.Holidays(map[string]interface{}{
  "country": "AE",
  "year": "2023",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'AE',
  year: '2023',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'AE',
  'year' => '2023',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "AE"
$Body.year = "2023"
$Url = "https://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays"
$Result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Url -Body $Body
$Result.holidays
import holidayapi
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = holidayapi.v1(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'AE',
  'year': '2023',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'AE',
  'year': '2023',
})