Rwanda Public Holidays

All public holidays in Rwanda — national days, religious observances, bank holidays and optional commemorations. Auto-refreshed yearly.

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About this calendar

Rwanda Public Holidays follows Rwanda's public-holiday year, combining civic anniversaries, memorial dates, Christian observances, and Islamic festivals that influence the national schedule of closures and reduced service. The event sample includes Independence Day, Liberation Day, National Harvest Day, Heroes Day, Genocide Memorial Day, Labour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, and Assumption. That mix gives the feed a distinctly Rwandan profile, balancing state remembrance with religious observance rather than relying on a generic regional template. The entries are all-day markers, and several of the most important dates recur in recognisable clusters through the year. National commemorations sit alongside movable observances linked to both the Christian and Islamic calendars, while the presence of a generic Public Holiday entry shows how the official schedule can also reflect observed days created around the main holiday calendar. For planners in Rwanda, that matters because public administration, banking, travel, and school timetables can all shift when commemorations and religious holidays fall close together. The calendar is therefore as useful for memorial planning as for ordinary closure tracking. Rwanda Public Holidays is a Smart Calendar Feed that is free to subscribe and works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Keeping the schedule inside a calendar app helps employers, schools, journalists, and households keep closure days, memorial observances, and religious festivals visible beside deadlines, reporting plans, and travel bookings without maintaining a separate annual list. It is also useful for regional organisations that compare Rwanda's working calendar with neighbouring markets in East Africa. The calendar updates regularly so official adjustments, observed replacement days, and corrections appear automatically. That keeps the listing aligned with Rwanda's published holiday pattern while the description remains valid as the visible event sample rotates.

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End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)

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Assumption

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