
Here's the live public holiday calendar for Ivory Coast — recently observed dates plus upcoming ones, kept current automatically rather than a fixed yearly list. Ivory Coast observes 1 official public holidays mandated by national law (including Fête Nationale de l'Indépendance). Some holidays fall on a fixed calendar date every year — an Independence or Republic Day, for instance. Others, governed by the Easter calculation, the Islamic lunar calendar, or an "nth weekday of the month" rule, shift from year to year, so each year carries its own actual date rather than an assumed repeat. Jump straight to the live calendar below, or read on for how the dates are worked out.
Why This Matters: Public holidays in Ivory Coast directly affect cross-border trade timing and payment settlement windows. This calendar is a standard reference point for business professionals planning meetings and deadlines working with partners, offices or operations in Ivory Coast.
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Live public holiday calendar for Ivory Coast, embedded directly from Google's official public calendar — always shows Google's current data.
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Statutory public holidays mandated by national government law in Ivory Coast. 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 Ivory Coast'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.
| Holiday Name | Date / Observance | Category / Type | Closure Impact | Official Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fête Nationale de l'Indépendance Commemorates independence from France in 1960. | August 7 | National Holiday | Full National Closure | www.gouv.ci → |
Public holidays generally split into two kinds: fixed-date ones that land on the same calendar day every year — a founding or independence anniversary, for instance — and movable ones whose date shifts annually because they follow a different calendar system entirely. Ivory Coast'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. Ivory Coast, like much of Africa, likely carries at least one holiday from each category on its calendar — one reason the list above shows a specific date per year instead of a single recurring one.
Under Ivory Coast'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 Ivory Coast in the table above, currently sourced from Ivory Coast's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Fête Nationale de l'Indépendance on August 7. 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.
Ivory Coast isn't divided into separate states or provinces the way some larger federated nations are, so its public holiday calendar applies uniformly nationwide — the dates shown above hold the same way across the whole country, without a regional layer to account for.
| 📊 Quick Facts | |
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| 👥 Population Rank | #50 of 249 |
| 📏 Area World Rank | #69 |
| 🏙️ Population Density | 100.1 / km² |
| 🌊 Land / Water Split | 98.6% / 1.4% |