📅 Live Holiday Calendar — Gambia

Live public holiday calendar for Gambia, embedded directly from Google's official public calendar — always shows Google's current data.

◀ Showing upcoming holidays — use the back arrow in the calendar's toolbar to see earlier dates this year.

ℹ Calendar supplied and maintained by Google. See the full travel profile for emergency numbers, electrical standards and more.

🏛️ Official Statutory National Holidays — Gambia

Statutory public holidays mandated by national government law in Gambia. These fixed dates reflect official non-working days. For dynamic, movable religious observances (e.g., Eid, Easter), refer to the live calendar embed above.

⚠ These entries are sourced from Gambia's official government portal but have not yet been individually cross-checked against a specific confirming page — treat the dates below as a helpful starting point, not a final confirmed record.

🧳 Upcoming Long Weekends in Gambia

Statutory holidays landing on a Monday, Friday, Tuesday or Thursday create a long-weekend opportunity — here's what's coming up.

📖 How Public Holidays Work in Gambia

Two calendar mechanics sit behind most public holiday lists: a fixed-date system for civic anniversaries, which repeat annually, and a second, older calendar system behind a country's religious or lunar-based observances, which don't. Gambia's calendar can include holidays governed by an Easter-based calculation, the Hijri lunar calendar used for Islamic observances, or a lunisolar calendar — each running independently of the standard Gregorian civic calendar. Countries across Africa vary widely in which calendar systems their holidays follow, Gambia included — that variation is exactly why the calendar above computes each year's date individually rather than repeating one.

Under Gambia's labor law, fixed-date national public holidays carry mandatory non-working status for public administration, financial institutions, and commercial enterprises — 1 such holiday is documented for Gambia in the table above, currently sourced from Gambia's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Independence Day on February 18. Official gazette announcements are published by government authorities to confirm these mandated closures.

Worth separating, too: a true public holiday is a legally mandated non-working day — banks, schools and government offices close by law or long-standing custom. An observance is different — culturally or religiously notable, but without a mandated closure (Valentine's Day and Earth Day are common examples worldwide). This page focuses specifically on public holidays, the ones that actually affect scheduling.

Gambia is also divided into states and provinces, and countries structured this way often layer a regional founding day, a local patron festival or a province-specific holiday on top of the national calendar — observed in one state but not nationwide. The calendar above covers Gambia's national holidays; see the Gambia states & provinces directory for population and government data on each one.