Listed below are the official U.S. holidays and projected Kuwaiti holidays the Embassy will observe during calendar year 2023.

 

Holiday	Date Observed	Day(s) of the week
New Year’s Day	January 1	Sunday
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.	January 15	Sunday
President’s Day	February 19	Sunday
Kuwait Liberation Day	February 26	Sunday
Kuwait National Day	February 27	Monday
Eid Al-Fitr*	April 23-24	Sun-Mon
Memorial Day	May 28	Sunday
Juneteenth	June 18	Sunday
Waqfat Arafat Day	June 27	Tuesday
Eid Al-Adha*	June 28-29 & July 2	Wed-Thur & Sun
Independence Day	July 4	Tuesday
Islamic New Year*	July 19	Wednesday
Labor Day	September 3	Sunday
The Prophet’s Birthday*	September 28	Thursday
Columbus Day	October 8	Sunday
Veterans Day – instead of Saturday, Nov. 11	November 12	Sunday
Thanksgiving Day	November 23	Thursday
Christmas Day	December 25	Monday

 

Note: Local religious holidays as identified by an asterisk (*) are governed by the lunar calendar and are subject to change.

A one-day local holiday that falls on a weekend day will be observed on the first working day immediately after the end of the weekend. If any or all of the multiple-day local holidays fall on a weekend, that holiday will be observed on the first working day(s) immediately after the end of the weekend.