Eritrea

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

The State of Eritrea is a country along the Red Sea Coast, located in the Horn of Africa. Due to its location, Eritrea was important for exporting. Colonized by Italy, and then Great Britain, Eritrea was also once part of the country of Ethiopia. Eritrea became independent in 1952 and was established on April 27, 1993.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
January 1st Sunday New Year's Day
January 5th Thursday Orthodox Christmas Eve
January 6th Friday Orthodox Christmas Day Long weekend.
January 19th Thursday Orthodox Epiphany
February 10th Friday Fenkil Day Long weekend.
March 8th Wednesday International Women's Day
March 20th Monday March Equinox
April 7th Friday Good Friday Long weekend.
April 9th Sunday Easter
April 21st Friday Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
May 1st Monday Labor Day Long weekend.
May 1st Monday International Workers' Day
May 24th Wednesday Independence Day
June 20th Tuesday Martyrs' Day
June 21st Wednesday June Solstice
June 28th Wednesday Feast of the Sacrifice
July 18th Tuesday Islamic New Year's Day
September 23rd Saturday September Equinox
September 26th Tuesday Birth of the Prophet
December 22nd Friday December Solstice
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="ER" -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": "ER",
  "year": "2023",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'ER',
  year: '2023',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'ER',
  'year' => '2023',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "ER"
$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': 'ER',
  'year': '2023',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'ER',
  'year': '2023',
})