Public holidays in Jordan

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Public holidays in Jordan.

Date English name Local name Remarks
1 January New Year's Day
30 January King Abdullah's Birthday Recently cancelled by a royal decree.
1 May Labour Day
date varies Easter Sunday Eid Al Fiseh Al Atheem, Al Eid Al Kbeer Not a national holiday; Christians in public domain may have day off. Christian private schools have holiday from Holy Thursday until, Easter Monday- or the next day. But there is a constant controversy surrounding this. Easter in Jordan is celebrated by all denominations according to the Eastern Church Calendar.
25 May Independence Day
9 June King Abdullah's accession to the throne
14 November Birthday of King Hussein After King Hussein's death, the day is called "Loyalty to Hussein"'s Day Recently cancelled by a royal decree.
25 December Christmas Day Eid Al Milad Al Majeed, Al Eid Il Sagheer Christian schools, extend this holiday to a four or five day period. Christmas in Jordan is celebrated by all denominations according to Catholic date (Orthodox date on January 7th).
date varies Feast of the Sacrifice or the Big Feast Eid ul-Adha Commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, occurs at the end of the month of hajj
date varies the Little Feast Eid ul-Fitr Commemorates end of Ramadan
date varies Hijri New Year Muharram Islamic New Year
date varies Al-Isra' ul-Miraj Ascension of Muhammad
date varies Muhammad's birthday Mawlid al-Nabi

Note: Holidays in Jordan can hardly be described as having a fixed date (not all though). For it is common for the government to change the day, which the holiday was supposed to be celebrated on, to another day-usually to prolong weekend.