Current Date And Time In Reunion
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
15:53:30 RET
Planning around Reunion's public holidays? This page tracks Reunion's national holiday calendar live, showing both recently observed dates and what's coming up next. Reunion observes 1 official public holidays mandated by national law (including Fête de la Liberté (Abolition of Slavery Day)). 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 Reunion directly affect banking hours, courier deliveries and retail operations. This calendar is a standard reference point for business professionals planning meetings and deadlines working with partners, offices or operations in Reunion.
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Live public holiday calendar for Reunion, 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 Reunion. 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 Reunion'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 de la Liberté (Abolition of Slavery Day) Official statutory holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery in Réunion in 1848. | December 20 | Regional Holiday | Full Island Closure | www.regionreunion.com → |
Not every holiday repeats on the same date each year. Fixed-date holidays — a national or founding day, typically — recur exactly, while a country's movable holidays are governed by a separate calendar system and land on a different date every year. Reunion'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. Reunion, 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 Reunion'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 Reunion in the table above, currently sourced from Reunion's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Fête de la Liberté (Abolition of Slavery Day) on December 20. Official gazette announcements are published by government authorities to confirm these mandated closures.
It's also worth distinguishing a public holiday from an observance. A public holiday is a government-mandated day off — offices, banks and schools close. An observance marks something culturally or religiously significant without requiring anyone to close for it. This page tracks public holidays only, since those are the dates that actually change a day's schedule.
Reunion 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.