Holiday Guide for Mauritania in 2025

Mauritania 2025

Mauritania
2025

Mauritania information

Population: 4.65m
Capital: Nouakchott
Calling Code: (222)
Time Zone: 0 UTC
Currency: Mauritanian ouguiya
Language: Arabic

List of National Holidays in Mauritania in 2025

	Wednesday January 1st New Year's Day Mauritania: New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
	Monday March 31st Long Weekend! Eid Al Fitr Mauritania: The festival of Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast breaking, marks the end of Ramadan
	Tuesday April 1st Eid Al Fitr Holiday Mauritania: Second day of holidays for the festival of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan
	Thursday May 1st Labour Day Mauritania: This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
	Sunday May 25th Africa Day Mauritania: Commemoration on May 25th of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity
	Saturday June 7th Eid Al-Adha Mauritania: Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is the most important feast in the Muslim calendar. It celebrates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael in submission to Allah's command, before he was stopped by Allah.
	Sunday June 8th Eid Al-Adha Holiday Mauritania: Second day of holidays to mark the Feast of Sacrifice, the most important feast of the Muslim calendar
	Friday June 27th Long Weekend! Awal Muharram Mauritania: Marks Islamic New Year and the Prophet's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622AD.
	Friday September 5th Long Weekend! Mouloud Mauritania: Celebrated by Muslims on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiulawal, the third month of the Muslim calendar
	Friday November 28th Long Weekend! Independence Day Mauritania: Mauritania declared its independence from France on November 28th 1960

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