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Accurate, up-to-date public holidays, bank holidays, and observances in Afghanistan for 2020 ready to be integrated into your application.

Afghanistan is a country located in South-Central Asia, whose earlier days had ties with the Silk Road, blending Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. Throughout the years, many great wars have been fought on this land, giving it the title, “the graveyard of empires.” On April 21, 1709, Afghanistan was officially founded as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
February 15th Saturday Liberation Day
March 8th Sunday Mother's Day Long weekend.
March 20th Friday Persian New Year's Day
March 20th Friday March Equinox
March 21st Saturday Day after the Persian New Year
April 24th Friday First Day of Ramadan
April 28th Tuesday Mujahideen Victory Day
May 1st Friday International Workers' Day
May 24th Sunday Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
May 25th Monday Second Day of the Festival of Breaking the Fast
May 26th Tuesday Third Day of the Festival of Breaking the Fast
June 20th Saturday June Solstice
June 21st Sunday Father's Day Long weekend.
July 30th Thursday Day of Arafah Long weekend.
July 31st Friday Feast of the Sacrifice
August 1st Saturday Second Day of the Feast of the Sacrifice
August 19th Wednesday Independence Day
August 29th Saturday Ashura
September 22nd Tuesday September Equinox
October 29th Thursday Birth of the Prophet Long weekend.
December 21st Monday December Solstice
December 31st Thursday New Year's Eve Long weekend.
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="AF" -d year="2020" -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": "AF",
  "year": "2020",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'AF',
  year: '2020',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'AF',
  'year' => '2020',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "AF"
$Body.year = "2020"
$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': 'AF',
  'year': '2020',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'AF',
  'year': '2020',
})