
Checking which days are official holidays in Mayotte? The live calendar below covers recently observed dates and everything coming up. Mayotte observes 1 official public holidays mandated by national law (including Departmentalisation Day). Not every holiday lands on the same date annually — fixed-date national days repeat exactly, while Easter-based, Islamic-calendar or lunar observances move each year, which the calendar reflects with each year's specific date rather than guessing a repeat. Jump straight to the live calendar below, or read on for how the dates are worked out.
Why This Matters: Public holidays in Mayotte directly affect on-the-ground staffing and call-centre coverage planning. This calendar is a standard reference point for location intelligence teams mapping regional operating calendars working with partners, offices or operations in Mayotte.
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Live public holiday calendar for Mayotte, 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 Mayotte. 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 Mayotte'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmentalisation Day Commemorates Mayotte becoming the 101st French department in 2011. | March 31 | Regional Holiday | Regional Public Closure | www.cg976.fr → |
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. Mayotte's calendar can include holidays governed by the Easter computus that many Christian-majority countries use, the Hijri lunar calendar behind Islamic observances such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, or a lunisolar cycle behind holidays like Lunar New Year. As a country in Africa, Mayotte sits in a region where both kinds of calendar are common — which is exactly why the live calendar above lists each year's actual computed date rather than assuming a repeat.
Under Mayotte'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 Mayotte in the table above, currently sourced from Mayotte's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Departmentalisation Day on March 31. 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.
Mayotte 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 Mayotte's national holidays; see the Mayotte states & provinces directory for population and government data on each one.
| 📊 Quick Facts | |
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| 👥 Population Rank | #182 of 249 |
| 📏 Area World Rank | #208 |
| 🏙️ Population Density | 3,272,550.0 / km² |
| 🌊 Land / Water Split | 100.0% / 0.0% |