No official public holidays are listed for United Arab Emirates in 2025.
We could not find published public holiday data for United Arab Emirates in 2025. The source is Nager.Date, which covers most countries but not all. Try a neighbouring year or contact us if you know of a public source we should add.
Total holidays
0
in 2025
Working days remaining
261
across all of 2025
Upcoming holidays
0
during 2025
See United Arab Emirates's holidays side by side with another country to plan cross-border work.
Suggested pairs: GCC trade bloc.
The United Arab Emirates standardised its private-sector and public-sector holiday calendars in 2022 by Cabinet Resolution 64 of 2022. The list runs to about fourteen days a year depending on the lunar Islamic calendar: Gregorian New Year's Day, Eid Al Fitr (three days), Arafat Day and Eid Al Adha (three days), Islamic New Year, Prophet Muhammad's birthday, Commemoration Day on 1 December, and National Day on 2 and 3 December. Eid dates are confirmed by the UAE's moon-sighting committee only days in advance, so employers cannot publish definitive calendars far ahead. The 2022 reform also shifted the official weekend to Saturday and Sunday with a half-day Friday for the public sector.
Federal Decree-Law 33 of 2021 sets a 48-hour standard private-sector week with Saturday and Sunday as the weekend since 2022. Public-sector employees work Monday to Thursday plus Friday morning. Before 2022 the weekend was Friday and Saturday across the economy, a change that aligned UAE working days with Western markets for finance and reduced settlement gaps with London and New York. Banking settlement runs on the Central Bank of the UAE's UAEFTS system, which observes the unified holiday list. The Dubai International Financial Centre and Abu Dhabi Global Market courts use their own Common Law procedural rules with English-style working day definitions.
For people planning cross-border meetings, the practical move is to overlay United Arab Emirates's calendar with the calendars of the other countries on your team. A week that looks completely clear from your end might be a national holiday on theirs. The compare tool above pairs two country calendars and highlights the overlapping closures, so you can spot the weeks where almost no one is at their desk before you put a launch on the board.