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Public holidays in Somalia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ1401530 ↗
Source-derived summary

Public holidays in Somalia are based on two official calendar systems: the Gregorian calendar primarily, and the Islamic lunar calendar for religious holidays.

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Unofficial

Unofficial dates that may be commemorated by subsets of nationals from Somalia include:

15th of May, the date when the Somali Youth League was founded.

Establishment dates of Somali Federal Member states, such as the 1st of August for Puntland.

See also

Public holidays in Djibouti

References

EIU (1986). Country Profile: Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti. The Unit. pp. 3–4.

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This entry incorporates text from “Public holidays in Somalia” 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.