National Holidays 2012
1 January The New Year according to the Gregorian calendar
25 January National Police Day
18 March Mother’s Day
25 April Sinai Liberation Day (only Sinai)
1 May Labour Day
18 June Eid el Galaa / Evacuation Day
23 July Revolution Day / Celebrates the 1952 Revolution
15 August Wafa’a el Nil / Flooding of the Nile
23 September Victory over Israel
6 October Armed Forces Day
21 October Naval Day
24 October Suez Day
23 December Suez Victory Day
31 December New Year’s Eve
Religious Holidays
Pharaonic
16 April Sham el Nessim / Spring Festival
Coptic
7 January Coptic Christmas
15 April Coptic Easter
11 September Coptic New Year
Islamic
5 February Moulid el Nabi / Prophet Mohammed Birthday
16 June Isra and Me’raj / Night Journey to Heavens
4 July Lailatul Bara’at / Night of Salvation
20 July First day of Ramadan fasting
14 August Lailatul Qadr / Night of Power
19 August Iftar Bayram / Eid al-Fitr / End of Ramadan
26 October Eid el Adha / Feast of Sacrifice
26 November El Hijra / Islamic New Year
The holidays in Islam are based on the lunar calendar. Therefore, each year the data move. The Ramadan time applies to Muslims as ‘Time of cleansing the body’ of all sins. From sunrise to sunset Muslims nor eat, drink or smoke. So, have sympathy for your tour guide during Ramadan, if he’s something irritated or not be quite oneself.
If you during Ramadan want to fly to Egypt, make sure that you book your flight on time. During this period it is extremely common to find quite a view bottlenecks in finding flight tickets.
