Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
EGYPT
Date 2008 Occasion
January 7 1 Coptic Christmas Day*
March 23 - 24 Easter Sunday - Easter Monday
April 25 Sinai Liberation Day
May 1 Labour Day
June 18 Evacuation Day/Liberation Day
July 23 Revolution Day
August 15 Flooding of the Nile (Wafa'a el Nil)*
September 11 1Coptic New Year (September 12 in Leap Years)*
October 1 Eid ul-Fitr
October 6 Armed Forces Day
October 24 Suez Victory Day
December 8  Eid ul-Adha
December 23 Victory Day
December 29 Islamic New Year
* Date Not Confirmed
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Coptic Christian Holidays
1
not official

Weekend Friday, Saturday