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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Comoros

The list of Comoros bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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21 Nov 2006 There are some reports that November 26 is a holiday to commemorate the Anniversary of the Death of Alkoutb Said Muhammad Cheikh Al Maarouf. For more details, see the Additional Information section, below. • 09 Nov 2006 (HZK Presse-Moroni) The Council of Ministers, led by Vice-President Ikililou Dhoinine, has declared Sunday, November 12, 2006 (usually, Sundays are regular working days in The Comoros), as a one-off "Journée de l’unité nationale" public holiday, to commemorate the 1975 anniversary of the Comoros' admission to the United Nations. • 10 Nov 2005 (Agence comorienne de presse-HZK-Presse) A resolution has been sent to the Comoros' Parliament which would make November 12 an annual public holiday commemorating the anniversary of the entrance of the Comoros into the United Nations. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Comoros public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in the Comoros are regulated by the 1984 Labour Code (LOI N° 84 - 018 /PR portant Code du Travail). • Weekends: The weekly days off in The Comoros are Fridays and Saturdays. • End of Ramadan: This holiday's starting date has a rule specific to the Comoros, which makes it differ frequently from that of other Muslim countries, even from those that agree on the same Islamic calendar. • Journée Nationale Maoré: this recently legislated public holiday (journée fériée, chômée et célébrée dans tout le pays) commemorates the 1975 admission of the Comoros to the United Nations. • Other Public Holidays: There are a few more public holidays listed in other online sources (Ashura, Death of President Ahmed Abdallah, Africa Day, ...) but this seems to be due to onlne sources referring to each indiscriminately. No official document or annoncement supports the existence of these dates as holidays. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Central Bank of Comoros (Comoros central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Comoros, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Comoros, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Comoros. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Comoros that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Comoros were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Comoros, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Comoros, before planning any trip to Comoros. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.