List of Public Holidays in Kenya 2020

Only 3 months into 2020, some of us are already exhausted from working a 9-5 job and looking forward to the next public holiday available on the calendar in 2020.

Kenyans love holidays and while you’d expect them to take these days to rest, most just end up drinking or partying away these days.

Public, national or legal holidays are holidays generally established by law and are usually non-working days during the year.

In Kenya, there are approximately 14 nationally recognized days where you do not have to go work.

Here is a list of the holidays that will be observed in 2020:

1st January, Wednesday – New Year’s Day

11th February, Tuesday – Moi Memorial Day

10th April, Friday – Good Friday

13th April, Monday – Easter Monday

1st May, Friday – Labour Day

24th May, Sunday – Idd-ul-Fitr

1st June, Monday – Madaraka Day

31st July, Friday – Idd-ul-Azha

10th October, Saturday – Huduma Day

20th October, Tuesday – Mashujaa Day

14th November, Saturday – Diwali

12th December, Saturday – Jamhuri Day

25th December, Friday – Christmas Day

26th December, Saturday – Utamaduni Day

According to the Constitution of Kenya, whenever a national holiday falls on a Sunday, “then the first succeeding day, not being a public holiday, shall be a public holiday and the first-mentioned day shall cease to be a public holiday.”

In Kenya, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior can also sign a Gazette notice declaring any day in the calendar a public holiday.

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