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Burkina Faso

Accurate, up-to-date public holidays, bank holidays, and observances in Burkina Faso for 2026 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 Thursday New Year's Day
January 3rd Saturday Revolution Day
March 8th Sunday International Women's Day
March 20th Friday March Equinox Long weekend.
March 20th Friday Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
April 5th Sunday Easter
April 6th Monday Easter Monday Long weekend.
May 1st Friday Labor Day Long weekend.
May 14th Thursday Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ
May 15th Friday Traditional Day Long weekend.
May 28th Thursday Feast of the Sacrifice
May 31st Sunday Mother's Day
June 14th Sunday Father's Day
June 21st Sunday June Solstice
August 5th Wednesday Independence Day
August 15th Saturday Assumption of Mary
September 23rd Wednesday September Equinox
November 1st Sunday All Saints' Day
December 11th Friday Proclamation of the Republic Long weekend.
December 21st Monday December Solstice Long weekend.
December 24th Thursday Christmas Eve
December 25th Friday Christmas Day Long weekend.
December 31st Thursday 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="2026" -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": "2026",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'BF',
  year: '2026',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'BF',
  'year' => '2026',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "BF"
$Body.year = "2026"
$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': 'BF',
  'year': '2026',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'BF',
  'year': '2026',
})