Events and holidays in the UAE
Holidays, school breaks, seasons and major events in the UAE, nationwide and city by city. Every date links to its source.
Official Published by the authority or organiser itself on its own site.
Expected Computed (for example from the Umm al-Qura calendar), not fully announced yet, or reported only in the news, so it may move.
December 2026
UAE National Day holiday
The UAE holiday rule gives 2 and 3 December; the 2026 days have not been confirmed separately.
Source: u.aeChecked Oct 28, 2026
January 2027
New Year holiday
The UAE holiday rules fix the holiday on 1 January. The 2027 holiday has not been announced yet.
Source: u.aeChecked Oct 28, 2026
December 2027
UAE National Day holiday
The UAE holiday rule gives 2 and 3 December. The 2025 holiday was moved to 1 and 2 December, so the 2027 days are not confirmed.
Source: u.aeChecked Oct 28, 2026
Earlier in this calendar (1)
New Year holiday
Federal government holiday. Friday 2 January was a remote-work day for federal employees.
Source: fahr.gov.aeChecked Oct 28, 2026
How JokerPrice uses these dates
Event rules are off by default. In the pricing calendar you can switch on a whole kind (for example every school break) or a single event, with an adjustment from −30% to +100% and an optional minimum stay.
The adjustment applies to open nights inside the event window for properties in the listed cities, or anywhere in the country for a nationwide date; an event never reaches a property in another country. It comes after the market shape, supply pressure, booking pace, weekend, last-minute and far-out rules and before short-gap discounts. Your own custom date rule on the same night takes precedence, fixed nightly overrides are never changed, and every price stays within your minimum and maximum.
When several events cover one night, the largest adjustment is used rather than adding them together, and every event is named in the night's explanation with its certainty and source.
Observed impact is measured from tracked public calendars and is shown only once there are at least 100 observed listing-nights in the event and in the four weeks before it.
Calendar last reviewed Oct 28, 2026, version 2026-10-29.1: 201 events from Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2027.
The same calendar as JSON: /api/events?country=ae