🇺🇬 Uganda Public Holidays 2026
The official calendar of holidays and observances.
Official holiday calendar
First day of the calendar year
Celebrates the overthrow of the then sitting government
Commemorates the martyrdom of Archbishop Janani Luwum
Celebration of women's achievements
Christian commemoration of the crucifixion
Christian celebration following Easter Sunday
International Workers' Day
Commemoration of the Batepá Massacre
Honors those who fought in the Ugandan Bush War
Festival of Sacrifice
Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus
Day after Christmas
Cultural football tournament of Buganda Kingdom
Uganda festivals
+ Add a festivalCultural celebrations shared and kept current by the community.
Uganda's oldest film festival, founded in Kampala in 2004, showing African and international cinema alongside...
A residential youth retreat run by the Busoga Kingdom in Eastern Uganda that teaches children and young people...
Banyoro (Nyoro) of Bunyoro-Kitara, with the Batooro of Tooro as a parallel
Added by @lmjEmpango is the Tooro Kingdom's coronation anniversary festival, held to mark the enthronement of the Omukama o...
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