In short: Eid al-Adha 2027 falls on Sunday 16 May, the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah 1448. Our 2027 country pages list it as a public holiday in 68 of 192 countries. Because the first day lands on a Sunday, 46 of those countries still get three or more consecutive days off. The remaining 22 get no extra day at all.
4 November 2026 — Every date in this guide comes from our own 2027 country pages, checked against the Umm al-Qura calendar used in Saudi Arabia. We count a date only when our pages type it as National, Substitute or Bank; Observance, Religious and Regional entries are excluded. For the wider picture across all 192 countries, start with the 2027 public holiday calendar, then come back here for the Eid detail.
When is Eid al-Adha 2027?
Eid al-Adha 2027 falls on Sunday 16 May 2027. In the Islamic calendar that is 10 Dhu al-Hijjah 1448. The date sits one day after the Day of Arafah, Saturday 15 May, which marks the standing at Arafah and the peak of the Hajj pilgrimage.
Those two dates frame every Eid al-Adha 2027 holiday that follows. Every Eid al-Adha public holiday on our 2027 pages falls inside a five-day window, from Saturday 15 May to Wednesday 19 May. No country opens the holiday earlier and none runs it later.
The 138 rows behind those figures break down as 126 National and 12 Substitute. No Eid al-Adha row on any of our 192 country pages is typed Bank, so the festival sits entirely in the national and substitute categories rather than the banking one.
Why most countries still list the date as an estimate
Of the 138 Eid al-Adha rows across our 2027 pages, 129 carry an estimated tag. Only nine do not: four for Saudi Arabia, four for Turkey and one for Singapore. That is not a hole in the data. It reflects two different ways of fixing the date.
Saudi Arabia calculates Dhu al-Hijjah in advance with the Umm al-Qura calendar, so its dates are published years ahead. Most other countries wait for a local crescent sighting on the 29th of Dhu al-Qa’dah. A sighting that fails on the first night pushes the whole festival back by a day.
Turkey’s Diyanet and Singapore’s Islamic authority publish their own confirmed dates rather than following Riyadh. We keep the estimated tag visible instead of quietly dropping it, because an estimated date is our calculation and not a government gazette. Expect a handful of countries to shift by one day once the Eid al-Adha 2027 announcements arrive.
A Sunday Eid is the awkward case
When the festival opens on a Sunday, the holiday itself lands on a weekend day for most of the world. Whether anyone gains a day off then depends on one thing: does the country add a substitute, or does it leave the Sunday to stand alone? Two countries can legislate the same single day and end up with very different weeks.
Twelve countries on our pages do. Albania, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Burundi, Cameroon, Malaysia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan each carry a separate Substitute row in the days after 16 May. Saudi Arabia is the clearest example, with the Saudi Arabia 2027 holidays list running from 15 to 19 May and the final day typed as observed.
The other 22 countries add nothing. Their 2027 entry is a single line for Sunday 16 May with no row after it and no observed day in the following week. For a worker in Jakarta, Manila, Accra or Tashkent, Eid al-Adha 2027 costs no working day at all. The festival is observed, but the calendar does not move.
The eight countries that keep Monday 17 May
Eight countries start the festival a day later, on Monday 17 May: Bangladesh, Guyana, India, Iran, Myanmar, Nigeria, Singapore and Tanzania. That is a full day after the Umm al-Qura calculation, and it follows a later local sighting in those markets rather than a different legal rule.
For Eid al-Adha 2027 the outcome is better for workers than the Sunday group gets. Monday is a normal working day, so a single Monday holiday is a day genuinely removed from the working week, not a day already spent at home. Singapore lists exactly that: one Monday in May and nothing else. India, Iran and Tanzania do the same, and all four end up with a three-day break running from Saturday 15 to Monday 17.
Bangladesh and Nigeria stretch it further, to 19 May and 18 May respectively. India takes only the Monday, as its India 2027 holiday list shows. That one day still creates a three-day break, because Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 sit in front of it.
The longest Eid al-Adha breaks in 2027
Six countries clear five days for Eid al-Adha 2027 and sixteen get four, so 22 of the 68 clear the four-day mark. The table lists both groups, with the number of Eid al-Adha days the country legislates in one column and the total consecutive days off once the weekend is added in the other. Every figure counts National, Substitute and Bank rows only. There are no gaps in this table, so no dash appears.
| Country | Eid al-Adha days | Consecutive days off |
|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 3 | 5 |
| Maldives | 4 | 5 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 5 |
| Sudan | 5 | 5 |
| Turkey | 4 | 5 |
| Yemen | 5 | 5 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 4 |
| Algeria | 3 | 4 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 4 |
| Bahrain | 3 | 4 |
| Egypt | 3 | 4 |
| Iraq | 3 | 4 |
| Jordan | 3 | 4 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 4 |
| Libya | 3 | 4 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 4 |
| Oman | 4 | 4 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 4 |
| Qatar | 3 | 4 |
| Syria | 4 | 4 |
| Tunisia | 3 | 4 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 4 |
The five-day group is worth a closer look, because the routes into it differ. Sudan and Yemen legislate five Eid days outright, with no substitute needed. Saudi Arabia legislates four and adds an observed day at the end. The Maldives gives four. Turkey gives four as well, and its fourth day, 19 May, doubles as Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, so the Turkey 2027 holidays page types it as one combined entry rather than two rows.
Bangladesh is the outlier in that group. It legislates only three Eid days, from 17 to 19 May, yet still reaches five consecutive days off because the run begins on Saturday. That is the whole reason for counting weekends separately from the legislation.
The four-day group runs from Afghanistan and Algeria through to the UAE 2027 public holidays and Pakistan’s four-day window. Nigeria is the odd one: only two Eid days, 17 and 18 May, but four consecutive days off, because the run begins on Saturday 15.
22 countries where the festival costs no working day
Twenty-two of the 68 countries grant one day, on a Sunday, and nothing more. The list includes some large populations: Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Ghana, Uganda, Suriname, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Timor-Leste. The group is easy to overlook because a single line in a long calendar attracts no attention at all.
Indonesia is the sharpest case. Its Indonesia 2027 public holidays page shows a single Eid al-Adha row for 16 May with no substitute beside it. A country with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world loses the public holiday to the calendar entirely in 2027.
We report that as it stands rather than smoothing it over. A single Sunday entry is not an error in our data; it is what the published 2027 calendar says. Whether an employer adds a discretionary day, or whether schools and banks close anyway, is a separate question that holiday legislation cannot answer. Treat these entries as a Sunday with no statutory cover behind it.
How many days off, and how we count them
The distribution is lopsided, and it does not match the impression the headline countries give. Twenty-eight countries grant a single day, nineteen grant two, fourteen grant three, five grant four and only two grant five. Add those up and the median country on our list gives two days, while the average works out at 2.03. The long Gulf breaks are the exception rather than the pattern.
| Eid al-Adha days granted | Countries |
|---|---|
| 5 days | 2 |
| 4 days | 5 |
| 3 days | 14 |
| 2 days | 19 |
| 1 day | 28 |
Three counting rules sit behind every number here. First, a date counts only when its type is National, Substitute or Bank, while Observance, Religious and Regional rows are excluded, exactly as on our country pages. Second, the Day of Arafah is a separate holiday rather than an Eid day, so a country closing on 15 May for Arafah gets that day in its run total but not in its Eid count.
Third, the run is measured on a Saturday–Sunday weekend. That convention flatters the Gulf, where the working week runs Sunday to Thursday, so in Saudi Arabia or the UAE the break in practice starts on Friday 14 May, a day earlier than our figure shows. We apply one convention across all 192 countries so the numbers stay comparable, and we flag the gap rather than bury it.
Eid al-Adha 2027 next to Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Adha 2027 and Eid al-Fitr 2027 sit 68 days apart. Eid al-Fitr 2027 dates put the first day on Tuesday 9 March, and Eid al-Adha follows on Sunday 16 May. Both are fixed by the same lunar logic, so both carry the same estimate caveat.
The year-on-year drift is the more useful comparison. Eid al-Adha 2026 fell on Wednesday 27 May. The 2027 date is 11 days earlier, which is the normal annual slide of roughly eleven days in the Gregorian calendar. A midweek festival in 2026 became a Sunday festival in 2027.
That single change of weekday explains most of the difference in how countries respond. Saudi Arabia in 2026 had to observe Sunday 31 May to cover a Saturday that fell inside the Eid block. In 2027 the same country simply adds 19 May as an observed day at the end of a clean four-day run.
For anyone tracking the festival year to year, the stable anchor is the Islamic date, not the Gregorian one. 10 Dhu al-Hijjah 1448 does not move; 16 May 2027 is simply where it lands this cycle. The same Islamic date arrives roughly eleven days earlier next year, which is why the weekday shifts annually and why substitute rules keep mattering.
Planning around 16 May 2027
If you are booking around Eid al-Adha 2027, look first at which side of the weekend your country’s holiday falls. In the thirteen countries where the holiday runs from 16 to 18 May, one day of annual leave on Wednesday 19 May turns four consecutive days off into five.
Fifteen of the 68 countries also observe something on Saturday 15 May, either the Day of Arafah or the first Eid day, so their break already starts there. If your country is in that group, plan around the five-day window rather than the four-day one.
Two practical warnings. The estimated tag means dates can move by a day, so avoid non-refundable bookings tied to 16 May exactly. And the countries with a single Sunday holiday will see little travel disruption, because nothing closes on a working day.
Regional timing matters as well. Most of the 68 sit in Asia and Africa and close within the same week, so flights between Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Karachi and Dubai fill early. The public holidays in Asia index is the quickest way to see which of those markets shut on the same days.
About Public Holiday Calendar
Public Holiday Calendar tracks public holidays for 192 countries, with a dated page for every country and year. Every entry carries its type, substitute days are listed separately, and estimated dates stay marked as estimated. Our 2027 set alone covers 192 country pages, and each figure in this article can be checked against them. We publish what we can verify and say so when a date is only a calculation.
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