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Public holidays in Seychelles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7257837 ↗
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This is a list of public holidays in Seychelles.

1-2 January: New Year's Day

1 February: Abolition of Slavery

Variable (March or April): Good Friday

Variable (March or April): Easter Saturday

Variable (March or April): Easter Monday

1 May: Labour Day

Variable: Corpus Christi

18 June: Constitution Day

29 June: Independence Day, marks the date when Seychelles gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Public holidays in Seychelles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.