Burkina Faso

Accurate, up-to-date public holidays, bank holidays, and observances in Burkina Faso for 2023 ready to be integrated into your application.

Burkina Faso was originally named Upper Volta. It is a country in West Africa. In the early 1900’s the French colonized this territory, From 1958-1984 Burkina was known as the Republic of Upper Volta. On August 5, 1960, the Republic of Upper Volta became independent from France. The country later was renamed to Burkina Faso on August 4, 1984.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
January 1st Sunday New Year's Day
January 3rd Tuesday Revolution Day
March 8th Wednesday International Women's Day
March 20th Monday March Equinox Long weekend.
April 9th Sunday Easter
April 10th Monday Easter Monday Long weekend.
April 22nd Saturday Festival of Breaking the Fast
May 1st Monday Labor Day Long weekend.
May 18th Thursday Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ
May 28th Sunday Mother's Day
June 11th Sunday Father's Day
June 21st Wednesday June Solstice
June 29th Thursday Feast of the Sacrifice
August 5th Saturday Independence Day
August 15th Tuesday Assumption of Mary
September 23rd Saturday September Equinox
November 1st Wednesday All Saints' Day
December 11th Monday Proclamation of the Republic Long weekend.
December 22nd Friday December Solstice Long weekend.
December 24th Sunday Christmas Eve
December 25th Monday Christmas Day Long weekend.
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="BF" -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": "BF",
  "year": "2023",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'BF',
  year: '2023',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'BF',
  'year' => '2023',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "BF"
$Body.year = "2023"
$Result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Url -Body $Body
$Result.holidays
import holidayapi
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = holidayapi.v1(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'BF',
  'year': '2023',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'BF',
  'year': '2023',
})