Gabon public holidays
Statutory public holidays (jours feries) in Gabon for calendar year 2026.
| Current value | 16 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Decret n° 00727/PR/MTEFP du 29 juin 1998 reglementant le regime des jours feries en Republique gabonaise, modifie par Decret n° 000484/PR/MTE du 26 mai 2004; Decret n° 0096 du 15 fevrier 2024 instituant la Journee nationale de la Liberation du 30 aout (conseil des ministres du 23 janvier 2024) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
NO SUBSTITUTION / MONDAYISATION RULE EXISTS IN GABON. This is the load-bearing fact for 2026: Gabonese law provides no day in lieu when a holiday falls on a weekend or on the employee's weekly rest day - on the contrary, where a chome-paye holiday coincides with the employee's normal weekly rest day the day is simply NOT paid. Consequently 2026-08-15 (Saturday), 2026-08-16 (Sunday), 2026-08-30 (Sunday) and 2026-11-01 (Sunday) are listed on their true dates with NO shifted observance. Bridge days and ad-hoc extensions are granted year by year by ministerial communique, not by standing rule, so they are deliberately excluded here. TWO LEGAL CATEGORIES: most days are 'ferie, chome et paye' (not worked, paid); 17 April (Journee nationale de la Femme, commemorating the first woman entering government in 1998) is 'ferie, chome et RECUPERABLE' - not worked, but the employee must make the time up on terms agreed with the employer, so it is NOT economically equivalent to the others. 30 August (Journee nationale de la Liberation) marks the 30 August 2023 CTRI takeover and was made a permanent annual holiday by Decret n° 0096 du 15 fevrier 2024 - it is a post-transition addition absent from the 1998/2004 decrees. PROVISIONAL DATES: Aid el-Fitr (2026-03-20) and Aid el-Adha (2026-05-27) are astronomical estimates and are fixed in Gabon only by moon sighting announced shortly beforehand; each may shift by one day. Christian movable feasts are computed from Easter Sunday 2026 = 5 April (Easter Monday 6 April; Ascension = Easter+39 = 14 May; Pentecost = Easter+49 = 24 May; Whit Monday 25 May) and this is corroborated by the 2026 ministerial communique declaring 5 and 6 April feries, chomes et payes. Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday are included because the decree enumerates 'Paques' and 'Pentecote' themselves, not only the Mondays. ACCESS QUIRK: neither Decret n° 00727/PR/MTEFP nor Decret n° 0096 is served in full text by any Gabonese government site I could load - journal-officiel.ga did not yield the texts and the Gabonese embassy site (amba-afriquedusud.ga) fails TLS with UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL. The cited source is a Gabonese legal-practice commentary that reproduces the decree numbers, the chome-paye vs recuperable distinction and the weekly-rest-day rule; the individual holiday declarations were cross-checked against annual ministerial communiques. The count of 16 days matches independent 2026 calendars. TREAT THE ENUMERATION AS CORROBORATED-BUT-NOT-GAZETTE-VERIFIED and re-verify against the decree text when a primary copy becomes reachable.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ga/public-holidays
# Free.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ga/public-holidays/history?from=2020-01-01
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