Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

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

Located on the west coast of Africa is the tropical country of Guinea-Bissau. During the 19th century Guinea was colonized by the Portuguese. On September 24, 1973, the Republic of Guinea-Bussau was founded and became independent from Portugal. In 1974 the capital Bissau was added to the name to avoid confusion with the country French Guinea, and the country was named the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

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Date Weekday Name Notes
January 1st Sunday New Year's Day
March 8th Wednesday International Women's Day
March 20th Monday March Equinox Long weekend.
April 21st Friday Festival of Breaking the Fast Long weekend.
May 1st Monday Labor Day Long weekend.
June 21st Wednesday June Solstice
June 28th Wednesday Feast of the Sacrifice
August 3rd Thursday Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguoiti
September 23rd Saturday September Equinox
September 24th Sunday National Day
November 14th Tuesday Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment
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="GW-BS" -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": "GW-BS",
  "year": "2023",
})
import { HolidayAPI } from 'holidayapi';
const key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
const holidayApi = new HolidayAPI({ key });
holidayApi.holidays({
  country: 'GW-BS',
  year: '2023',
});
$key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__';
$holiday_api = new \HolidayAPI\Client(['key' => $key]);
$holidays = $holiday_api->holidays([
  'country' => 'GW-BS',
  'year' => '2023',
]);
$Body = @{}
$Body.key = "__YOUR_API_KEY__"
$Body.country = "GW-BS"
$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': 'GW-BS',
  'year': '2023',
})
require 'ruby-holidayapi'
key = '__YOUR_API_KEY__'
hapi = HolidayAPI::V1.new(key)
holidays = hapi.holidays({
  'country': 'GW-BS',
  'year': '2023',
})