Equatorial Guinea public holidays
Statutory national public holidays (dias feriados) in Equatorial Guinea for calendar year 2026, with the Article 4 substitution rule applied.
| Current value | 14 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Decreto numero 9/2007, de fecha 5 de febrero, por el que se fijan los dias feriados en la Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial (art. 2 lists the holidays; art. 4 provides substitution) - applied and announced annually by the Ministerio de Trabajo, Fomento de Empleo y Seguridad Social |
| Last verified | 2026-07-30 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
SUBSTITUTION RULE APPLIED. Article 4 of Decreto 9/2007 provides that when a feriado falls on a non-working day, the first following working day is ALSO declared festive (it is an added day, not a moved day - confirmed by the December 2022/January 2023 precedent in which both 25 December and 26 December, and both 1 January and 2 January, were festive). For 2026 the only listed holiday falling on a Sunday is 8 March, so Monday 9 March 2026 is added. Movable feasts computed from Easter Sunday 5 April 2026: Jueves Santo 2 April, Viernes Santo 3 April, Corpus Christi 4 June (Easter + 60 days). All weekday assignments above were independently cross-checked against the Spanish Embassy in Malabo's published 2026 calendar (1 Jan Thursday, 2 Apr Thursday, 3 Apr Friday, 1 May Friday, 15 Aug Saturday, 12 Oct Monday, 8 Dec Tuesday, 25 Dec Friday). 15 August 2026 falls on a SATURDAY and is served WITHOUT a substitute: the documented applications of article 4 all concern Sundays, and I could not confirm whether Saturday counts as a 'dia no habil' for this purpose - treat as a genuine open question, not a settled exclusion. HONESTY WARNING ON THE SOURCE: Equatorial Guinea publishes no online Boletin Oficial del Estado, and the full text of article 2 of Decreto 9/2007 is not retrievable from any government URL. The decree's existence, number, date, and the article 4 rule are confirmed from a contemporaneous report quoting the Ministry of Labour's own communique, but the enumerated day list above is reconstructed from the ministry's annually published calendario laboral rather than read off the decree. The three entries I regard as least certain against the decree text are 8 March (Dia de la Mujer), 2 April (Jueves Santo) and 25 May (Dia de Africa) - all three appear in the ministry's published annual calendars but I could not confirm them in article 2. CONTESTED EXCLUSION - 1 NOVEMBER: the Spanish Embassy in Malabo's published CALENDARIO LABORAL DIAS FESTIVOS 2026 lists '1 de noviembre (domingo, dia de Todos los Santos, se pasa al lunes)' and labels it 'Espana y G.E.', i.e. it treats All Saints as an Equatorial Guinean holiday too and applies a Monday shift. That is real evidence against excluding it, but the embassy calendar is a foreign mission's staff calendar rather than an EG primary instrument, and 1 November does not appear on the Ministry of Labour's national list. The exclusion is kept and flagged as unresolved rather than adding a day that cannot be sourced to the decree. OTHER DELIBERATE EXCLUSIONS: local patron-saint days (e.g. 17 November, Patrona de Malabo) are regional-only and are not national feriados; 10 December (Derechos Humanos) appears on some third-party lists but not on the ministry's national list; 6 December on the embassy calendar is SPAIN's Constitution Day and must not be confused with Equatorial Guinea's, which is 15 August. Ad-hoc bridge days are also frequently declared by separate ministerial resolution during the year (as in 2021-22 and 2022-23) and are not predictable in advance. 2027 NOT SERVED - HELD (2026-07-30). Equatorial Guinea's holidays rest on Decreto n.º 9/2007 de 5 de febrero, but the operative instrument each year is the Ministerio de Trabajo's annual calendario laboral, whose composition genuinely varies from year to year, and the 2027 calendar has not been published. No official gazette text is retrievable online for the decree itself. There is a further unresolved question about the substitution rule: art. 4 appears to be ADDITIVE, declaring the first following working day also festive when a holiday falls on a día no hábil, but only the Sunday case is documented and whether Saturday counts as no hábil is unclear - which matters in 2027 because Labour Day, the President's birthday and Christmas all fall on Saturdays. Ad-hoc bridge decrees also recur. Holding until the 2027 calendario laboral is published.
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