
Use this page to check Tunisia's national public holidays: a continuously updated calendar covering both past and upcoming dates. Tunisia observes 1 official public holidays mandated by national law (including Fête 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 Tunisia directly affect government services, public transport and business hours. This calendar is a standard reference point for location intelligence teams mapping regional operating calendars working with partners, offices or operations in Tunisia.
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Live public holiday calendar for Tunisia, 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 Tunisia. 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 Tunisia'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 l'Indépendance Commemorates independence from France declared in 1956. | March 20 | National Holiday | Full National Closure | www.pm.gov.tn → |
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. Tunisia'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. As a country in Africa, Tunisia 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 Tunisia'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 Tunisia in the table above, currently sourced from Tunisia's official government portal, pending independent confirmation, including Fête de l'Indépendance on March 20. 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.
Tunisia 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 Tunisia's national holidays; see the Tunisia states & provinces directory for population and government data on each one.
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| 👥 Population Rank | #80 of 249 |
| 📏 Area World Rank | #92 |
| 🏙️ Population Density | 78.9 / km² |
| 🌊 Land / Water Split | 95.0% / 5.0% |