Mali Public Holidays (Fetes legales)
Mali has 16 public holidays on the calendar held here, in force from 1 Jan 2026. Last checked against the official source on 26 Aug 2026.
Statutory public holidays of the Republic of Mali for calendar year 2026, declared chomes et payes.
| Current value | 16 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Loi n deg 05-040 du 22 juillet 2005 relative aux fetes legales en Republique du Mali, as applied each year by communiques of the Ministre du Travail, de la Fonction Publique et du Dialogue Social (MTFPDS) |
| Last verified | 2026-08-26 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
STATUTORY BASIS: Loi n deg 05-040 du 22 juillet 2005 relative aux fetes legales enumerates twelve fetes legales - the fixed civil dates (1 janvier, 20 janvier, 26 mars, 1er mai, 25 mai, 22 septembre, 25 decembre), Lundi de Paques, and the movable Muslim feasts (Korite/fin du Ramadan, Tabaski, and Maouloud comprising both the naissance and the bapteme du Prophete). Mali is unusual in giving the 'Bapteme du Prophete', the seventh day after Mawlid (19 Rabi al-Awwal), its own public holiday. The 2026 Tabaski communique cites Loi 05-040 by name, independently confirming the instrument number and date. OBSERVANCE / SUBSTITUTION RULE APPLIED - CORRECTED: Malian practice, as reported by WageIndicator/Votresalaire.org's Mali labour-law pages and by Malian press summaries of the Code du Travail, is that a holiday falling on a SUNDAY is carried to the following day, i.e. the Monday ('les jours feries qui tombent un dimanche sont deplaces au lendemain, c'est-a-dire le lundi suivant'), while a holiday falling on a SATURDAY stays on its own date and is absorbed. An earlier draft of this record asserted that Mali has NO substitution mechanism at all; that was wrong and is corrected here. The rule is nevertheless INOPERATIVE for calendar 2026: not one date in this list falls on a Sunday (1 Jan Thu, 2 Jan Fri, 20 Jan Tue, 16 Mar Mon, 19 Mar Thu, 20 Mar Fri, 26 Mar Thu, 6 Apr Mon, 1 May Fri, 25 May Mon, 27 May Wed, 28 May Thu, 25 Aug Tue, 1 Sep Tue, 22 Sep Tue, 25 Dec Fri), so NO date has been shifted. Confidence note: the Sunday-carry rule is reported at secondary-source confidence only - the promulgated text of Loi 05-040 could not be loaded, so it is not established whether the rule sits in that law or in the Code du Travail. Easter Sunday 2026 is 5 April, so Lundi de Paques is 6 April 2026. MOVABLE ISLAMIC DATES, individually confirmed by MTFPDS communique for 2026: Laylat al-Qadr Monday 16 March; Korite Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March; Tabaski Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 May - the 27/28 May declaration was re-verified on 2026-07-20 against multiple Malian outlets reproducing the MTFPDS communique, which declares both days 'chomees et payees sur toute l'etendue du territoire national' for public, private and parapublic sector workers. The 'lendemain' second days for Korite and Tabaski are NOT standing entitlements in the 2005 law - they are granted by annual ministerial communique, and were granted for both feasts in 2026. TWO PROVISIONAL ENTRIES, FLAGGED IN-BAND: Maouloud and the Bapteme du Prophete are genuine statutory holidays under Loi 05-040, but as at 2026-07-20 the MTFPDS had not yet issued the communique fixing their 2026 dates. The dates carried here (25 August and 1 September 2026) are astronomical projections for 12 Rabi al-Awwal 1448 and its seventh day, and are marked DATE PROVISOIRE inside the name field so that no consumer can mistake them for confirmed values. They must be re-pulled once the communique issues, and may move by a day in either direction on local moon sighting - Mali determines these dates by national sighting, not by calculation. DELIBERATE EXCLUSIONS: (1) Ascension, Pentecote, Assomption (15 August) and Toussaint (1 November) are NOT among the fetes legales of Loi 05-040; the Ivorian embassy's Bamako page that lists them was found to be conflating Cote d'Ivoire's own calendar with Mali's (it lists 7 August Ivorian independence and 15 November Journee de la Paix, neither of which is Malian) and was discarded as a source. (2) ASHURA (10 Muharram) appears on the English Wikipedia list for Mali but is NOT in the Loi 05-040 enumeration reproduced by Malian labour-law sources, and no 2026 MTFPDS communique declaring it could be found; it is excluded and flagged rather than guessed. ACCESS: official Journal Officiel 2005-25 (https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2005/mali-jo-2005-25.pdf) fetched HTTP 200 on 2026-08-26 and prints Loi n 05-040 du 22 juillet 2005 in full: Art. 1er lists 22 septembre, 1er janvier, 20 janvier, 26 mars, 1er mai, 25 mai, 25 décembre, Journées du Maouloud (Naissance et Baptême), Journée de la Fête du Ramadan, Journée de la Tabaski, Lundi de Pâques; Art. 2 lets the Government declare the following working day a holiday; Art. 3 makes legal holidays and declared days chômés et payés.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ml/public-holidays
# Free.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ml/public-holidays/history?from=2020-01-01
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