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Saturday 14 March 2009

Public holidays and daylight savings times Egypt 2009

CLICK HERE FOR 2010 AND 2011 INFORMATION


Please note that the information below relates to 2009. Information for 2010 and 2011 see link at top of this post.


RAMADAN HAS FINISHED IN EGYPT FOR 2009


CLOCKS IN EGYPT HAVE NOW GONE BACK 1 HOUR - END OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS 2009.

SOURCE OF INFO FOR ABOVE STATEMENT

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME WEBSITES ARE STILL SHOWING DIFFERENT DATES AND ALSO THAT YOUR COMPUTER CLOCK TIME UPDATE SERVER HAS NOT CHANGED EVEN WITH A MANUAL SUBMISSION.

Other dates you may see are 27th August 2009, Thursday September 24th and Thursday October 1st (printed in my Egyptian diary!)

Original Post below:

I haven't posted for a while because I have been ill ('man' flu - ie a bad cold), entertaining a friend over here for a while, and have also been incredibly busy trying to finish off some academic work which I had 18 months to do and of course am trying to get in to the last 2 weeks!

Anway, I thought that I would make a post about public holiday dates, just to keep things going! Generally speaking, big companies, banks etc have holidays on these dates, but with the exception of the end of Ramadan, you will find most of the smaller businesses, malls etc open (possibly with later start times).

Apparently a new public holiday "Taba Day" has also been declared for March 19th. link about new public holiday

source of info on public holiday dates

2009
7 Jan* Coptic Christmas Day.
9 Mar Birth of the Prophet.
(20th Apr - might be coptic easter, see comment by 27th April).
25 Apr Sinai Liberation Day (Sinai only).
27 Apr* Sham el-Nassim (Coptic Easter). {I have been advised that this date given on the link above is possibly wrong and maybe 20th April).
1 May Labour Day.
23 Jul National Day.
11 Sep* Coptic New Year.
20-23 Sep Bairam Feast (End of Ramadan).
6 Oct Armed Forces Day.
27-28 Nov Grand Feast.
18 Dec Islamic New Year.


Source of info on Daylight Savings

Clocks go forward 1 hour for Daylight Saving at midnight on 23rd April 2009. This means that from midnight on 28th March until midnight on 23rd April, Egypt will only be 1 hour ahead of the UK instead of the usual 2.

**NOTE WELL: amended information** Clocks will go back 1 hour at MIDNIGHT on Thursday August 20th 2009. (i.e. as soon as it gets to MIDNIGHT, the clock will go back to 11pm that night) so we will be only 1 hour ahead of the UK again for nearly 2 months until the UK clock goes back at 2am on Sunday 25th October 2009.
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