Equatorial Guinea : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
Currency: Communauté Africaine Financière Franc (XAF)
Internet domain: .gq - Telephone code: +240 - International dialing code: 00 - GMT offset: +1 (no DST)
Weekend: Sunday
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Monday June 6, 2022 | President's Day | Secular holiday | |
Thursday June 16, 2022 | Corpus Cristi | Catholic | |
Saturday June 18, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Friday July 1, 2022 | Spring holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Wednesday August 3, 2022 | Celebration of the Coup d'État | Secular holiday | |
Monday August 15, 2022 | Constitution's Day | Secular holiday | |
Thursday September 15, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Wednesday October 12, 2022 | Independence Day | National Day | |
Thursday November 17, 2022 | Saint Isabel Day | cards/flowers | |
Thursday December 8, 2022 | Immaculate Conception | Catholic | |
Wednesday December 21, 2022 | Christmas holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday December 25, 2022 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday December 26, 2022 | Christmas Day (forwarded to Monday) | Secular holiday | |
President's Day
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Monday June 6, 2022
Secular holiday :
Corpus Cristi
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Thursday June 16, 2022
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Saturday June 18, 2022
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end)
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Friday July 1, 2022
School holidays :
Celebration of the Coup d'État
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Wednesday August 3, 2022
Secular holiday : The 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état happened on August 3, 1979, when President Francisco Macías Nguema's nephew, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, overthrew him in a bloody coup. Fighting between loyalists and rebels continued until Macías Nguema was captured fleeing for Cameroon on August 18. He sentenced his uncle to death for the crime of genocide against the Bubi people and other crimes committed. Macías Nguema was executed by firing squad on September 29, 1979. Teodoro has remained President since then. [Wikipedia]
Constitution's Day
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Monday August 15, 2022
Secular holiday :
Summer holiday (end)
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Thursday September 15, 2022
School holidays : Start of face-to-face classes
Independence Day
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Wednesday October 12, 2022
Secular holiday : Obtained from the UK in 1968
Saint Isabel Day
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Thursday November 17, 2022
cards/flowers :
Immaculate Conception
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Thursday December 8, 2022
Catholic : Dogma that Mary was from the first moment of conception, totally free from the stain of original sin. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday December 21, 2022
School holidays :
Christmas Day
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Sunday December 25, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
Christmas Day (forwarded to Monday)
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Monday December 26, 2022
Secular holiday :