There are 254 working days in Kenya in 2026, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 7 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
254
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
7
3 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
21.2
working days per month
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 7 | 254 |
These are the 7 public holidays in Kenya that land on a weekday in 2026 and therefore remove a working day. Holidays that fall on a weekend are not listed here because they do not change the working-day total.
The 254 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2026, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 7 public holidays that land on a weekday. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not subtracted, because they do not remove a day anyone would have worked; in 2026 that applies to 3 of Kenya's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 254 working days works out to roughly 2,032 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
The Employment Act 2007 section 27 sets the standard working week at 52 hours over six days for general workers and 60 hours for night work. The standard private-sector office and banking week is Monday to Friday at 8 or 9 hours per day, with retail and informal sectors operating Monday to Saturday. Sunday is the statutory weekly rest day. The Interpretation and General Provisions Act section 57 rolls statutory deadlines falling on a Sunday or public holiday to the next working day. Settlement of shilling transactions runs on the Central Bank of Kenya's KEPSS RTGS system, which observes the gazetted twelve-day holiday list.
Kenya's public holidays are listed in the Public Holidays Act Cap 110 Laws of Kenya, supplemented by Presidential proclamation under section 2 for moveable Islamic and one-off observances. The standing list runs to about twelve days: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day on 1 May, Madaraka Day on 1 June commemorating the 1963 attainment of internal self-rule, Huduma Day on 10 October (replacing the former Moi Day), Mashujaa Day on 20 October honouring those who fought for independence, Jamhuri Day on 12 December marking the 1963 declaration of the republic, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, plus Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha by sighting of the moon. Election day is gazetted each cycle as a one-off public holiday.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Kenya carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll runs, billing cycles, SLA windows, and project plans rather than a flat assumption of about 21.2 working days per month. A month with two weekday holidays can have several fewer working days than a clear one, which changes capacity planning and the realistic delivery date for anything scheduled in business days.
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Kenya holiday calendar for 2026. You can subscribe to those dates as an .ics feed so they appear in your own calendar, or use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator to count business days for a specific date range rather than the whole year.
Working-day figures are computed from the public holiday list for Kenya (source: Nager.Date and the national references above) combined with a Monday-to-Friday business week. Regional holidays and substitute-day rules vary; confirm against the official calendar for legal or payroll use.