Events and holidays calendar
Religious holidays, school breaks, national days, seasons and major events that move short-term rental demand in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Egypt, grouped by country. 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.
Saudi Arabia
Under way
Riyadh Season
Opening on 21 October is announced. The end date is estimated from the announced 10-week run; zones open and close on their own dates.
Source: gulfnews.comChecked Oct 28, 2026
United Arab Emirates
Under way
Sheikh Zayed Festival
Dates from a WAM report carried by Gulf News; the festival's own site still showed the 2025-26 season when checked.
Source: gulfnews.comChecked Oct 28, 2026
Oman
No upcoming events match this filter.
Earlier in this calendar (2)
Khareef Dhofar season
Dhofar Municipality's dates as reported by the Times of Oman; the Civil Aviation Authority gave 20 September as the end.
Source: timesofoman.comChecked Oct 28, 2026
Muscat Nights
Dates from an Oman News Agency preview, not from Muscat Municipality's own site.
Source: omannews.gov.omChecked 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