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Maldives public holidays

Public holiday dates for the Maldives covering 2026 and 2027 — with the part every other list leaves out. — 18 of these 25 dates can still move. They are marked, rather than printed alongside the fixed ones as though a calendar could know.

Only the President's Office declares a public holiday in the Maldives. Every lunar date below — Eid, Ramadan, Mawlid, National Day — is settled by sighting the moon, which is why published calendars disagree with each other by a day and why a roster built on the wrong one is a roster built twice.

The dates

Last reviewed 9 August 2026. Bank-only holidays are not listed.

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2026

DateDayHolidayCertainty
14 AugustFridayNational DayQaumee Dhuvas, the first of Rabi' al-Awwal. Two of our three sources put it on Friday 14 August and one on Saturday 15 August — an unresolved disagreement, and a good illustration of why nothing lunar here should be treated as settled.Can move
16 AugustSundayNational Day holidayA substitute day, because National Day falls on a Friday. It moves with the day it substitutes for.Can move
25 AugustTuesdayThe Prophet's BirthdayMawlid al-Nabi, the twelfth of Rabi' al-Awwal.Can move
13 SeptemberSundayThe Day Maldives Embraced IslamThe first of Rabi' al-Thani, marking the conversion of the islands in 1153.Can move
3 NovemberTuesdayVictory DayThe anniversary of 3 November 1988. Same date every year.Fixed
11 NovemberWednesdayRepublic DayThe anniversary of the second republic, declared 11 November 1968.Fixed

2027

DateDayHolidayCertainty
1 JanuaryFridayNew Year's DayFixed
8 FebruaryMondayThe first day of RamadanTwo of our three sources say Monday 8 February and one says Tuesday 9 February. The start of Ramadan is settled by sighting, so a one-day move here shifts every Ramadan working-hour arrangement with it.Can move
9 MarchTuesdayEid-ul-FitrThe first of Shawwal. Moves with the start of Ramadan.Can move
10 MarchWednesdayEid-ul-Fitr holidayCan move
11 MarchThursdayEid-ul-Fitr holidayCan move
1 MaySaturdayLabour DayFixed
15 MaySaturdayHajj DayThe Day of Arafah, the ninth of Dhu al-Hijjah.Can move
16 MaySundayEid-ul-AdhaThe tenth of Dhu al-Hijjah. The longest holiday block of the Maldivian year — four days in 2027 on current forecasts.Can move
17 MayMondayEid-ul-Adha holidayCan move
18 MayTuesdayEid-ul-Adha holidayCan move
19 MayWednesdayEid-ul-Adha holidayCan move
6 JuneSundayIslamic New YearThe first of Muharram, 1449 AH.Can move
26 JulyMondayIndependence DayThe anniversary of independence from British protection, 26 July 1965.Fixed
4 AugustWednesdayNational DayQaumee Dhuvas again, eleven days earlier than in 2026 — the lunar year is shorter than the Gregorian one, which is why a holiday calendar cannot simply be copied forward.Can move
15 AugustSundayThe Prophet's BirthdayCan move
3 SeptemberFridayThe Day Maldives Embraced IslamCan move
5 SeptemberSundayThe Day Maldives Embraced Islam holidayA substitute day, because the holiday falls on a Friday.Can move
3 NovemberWednesdayVictory DayFixed
11 NovemberThursdayRepublic DayFixed

Plan, but do not book, on a date that can move. Fixed dates are safe indefinitely. Tentative ones are fine for budgeting and rough rostering, and worth waiting on before anything that costs money to change.

What does a trip across Eid actually cost?

The annual leave calculator uses these dates: it takes the Fridays and public holidays out of a trip's span, counting an Eid on a Friday once rather than twice.

How HumanR uses the holiday calendar

One calendar, read by leave counting, rosters and the deployment board — so a date corrected in one place is corrected everywhere.

What a list of dates cannot tell you

Only the President's Office declares a public holiday. Everything on this page is a forecast until they announce it, and we have marked which dates can still move rather than presenting them all with the same confidence.

Lunar dates are settled by sighting, not by calculation. Eid, Ramadan, Mawlid, National Day and the Day Maldives Embraced Islam all depend on the moon, which is why calendars published a year ahead disagree with each other by a day.

Multi-day festivals get one row per day. That is how the dates are listed here and how HumanR stores them, so a four-day Eid block counts as four days when leave is worked out.

Bank-only and sector-specific holidays are not listed. This is the general public-holiday calendar; a bank's own closure days and any resort-specific arrangements sit outside it.

Cross-checked against the sources below on 9 August 2026, and re-checked on every build to make sure the list has not quietly run out. Where sources disagreed, the disagreement is published in the note on the row rather than resolved silently.

Questions

Who decides the public holidays in the Maldives?

The President's Office. Holidays are declared by the President and published as official announcements — no calendar site, this one included, can confirm a date before that happens. Lunar dates in particular are settled close to the day, because they depend on the moon being sighted.

Why are some dates marked tentative?

Because they can still move. Eid, Ramadan, Mawlid, National Day and the Day Maldives Embraced Islam all fall on Islamic calendar dates, which shift against the Gregorian calendar and are confirmed by sighting rather than calculation. Calendars published a year ahead routinely disagree with each other by a day — ours says which dates those are instead of hiding the uncertainty.

How far ahead can I plan a roster on these dates?

The fixed dates — Independence Day, Victory Day, Republic Day, Labour Day, New Year's Day — you can plan on indefinitely. The tentative ones are safe for budgeting and rough planning, but anything that costs money to get wrong, such as flights or a shift handover, should wait for the official announcement.

What happens when a public holiday falls on a Friday?

A substitute day is usually declared, most often the following Sunday, so the holiday is not lost to the weekly day off. Those substitutes appear in the list where they have been forecast, and they are tentative for the same reason the day they substitute for is.

Do public holidays reduce the annual leave a trip costs?

For annual leave, yes. HumanR charges annual leave in applicable days — the calendar span of a trip minus the Fridays and public holidays inside it, with a holiday falling on a Friday subtracted once rather than twice. Other leave types charge the plain calendar span.

Can I use this list in my own system?

Yes. The download is a plain CSV of date, name and a tentative flag, which opens in any spreadsheet and loads into most HR systems. It is also the exact shape our own setup process uses, so it can be handed over as-is when a company moves onto HumanR.

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