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Public holidays in Africa

Countries ranked by the number of public-holiday days in 2026. Multi-day holidays count every day off.

59 countries

#	Country	Holidays	Days off
1	The Gambia	15	20
2	Rwanda	15	19
3	Morocco	15	18
4	Zambia	17	18
5	Burkina Faso	15	17
6	Tanzania	16	17
7	Tunisia	15	17
8	Egypt	13	16
9	Gabon	16	16
10	Ghana	15	16
11	Madagascar	16	16
12	Uganda	15	16
13	Angola	15	15
14	Botswana	15	15
15	Burundi	14	15
16	Eritrea	15	15
17	Libya	11	15
18	Mauritius	15	15
19	Niger	14	15
20	South Sudan	15	15
21	Sudan	8	15
22	Algeria	10	14
23	Benin	13	14
24	Central African Republic	14	14
25	Comoros	11	14
26	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11	14
27	Equatorial Guinea	13	14
28	Ivory Coast	14	14
29	Nigeria	13	14
30	Senegal	14	14
31	Seychelles	13	14
32	Sierra Leone	12	14
33	South Africa	13	14
34	Chad	12	13
35	Djibouti	13	13
36	Eswatini	11	13
37	Namibia	13	13
38	Togo	13	13
39	Zimbabwe	13	13
40	Cape Verde	12	12
41	Ethiopia	12	12
42	Guinea	12	12
43	Malawi	11	12
44	Mali	12	12
45	Mayotte	12	12
46	Réunion	12	12
47	São Tomé and Príncipe	9	12
48	Cameroon	11	11
49	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	11	11
50	Guinea-Bissau	11	11
51	Kenya	11	11
52	Lesotho	11	11
53	Liberia	11	11
54	Western Sahara	11	11
55	Mauritania	8	10
56	Mozambique	9	10
57	Republic of the Congo	10	10
58	Somalia	10	10
59	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	5	6