Aid el-Addha 2023, 2024 and 2025 in Djibouti

Aid el-Addha is both a public holiday and a major annual religious event that people in Djibouti look forward to. Muslims all over the world consider this to be the most important festival on the Islamic Calendar.

Year	Date	Day	Holiday
2023	28 Jun	Wed	Aid el-Addha
	29 Jun	Thu	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2024	16 Jun	Sun	Aid el-Addha
	17 Jun	Mon	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2025	6 Jun	Fri	Aid el-Addha
	7 Jun	Sat	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2026	27 May	Wed	Aid el-Addha
	28 May	Thu	Aid el-Addha Holiday
Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates.

For Aid el-Addha, many will wear new clothes, attend special mosque and prayer services early in the morning, spend the day visiting friends and family members, put on a big feast, and give money or food to help the poor afford a meat-based meal.

Those Muslims who are physically and financially able to do so may travel over across the Red Sea to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, on the “Hajj pilgrimage”, which is one of the “Five Pillars of Islam”.

This pilgrimage is a once-in-a-lifetime event for most Muslims, and it is an opportunity to follow the model of the Prophet Muhammad and commemorate the faithfulness of Ibrahim, who was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael – though Ishmael was ultimately saved.

A goat or ram was sacrificed instead, according to the Koran, and many Muslims will sacrifice an animal for Aid el-Addha to represent that “replacement sacrifice”.

Previous Years

Year	Date	Day	Holiday
2022	9 Jul	Sat	Aid el-Addha
	10 Jul	Sun	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2021	20 Jul	Tue	Aid el-Addha
	21 Jul	Wed	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2020	31 Jul	Fri	Aid el-Addha
	1 Aug	Sat	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2019	11 Aug	Sun	Aid el-Addha
	12 Aug	Mon	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2018	21 Aug	Tue	Aid el-Addha
	22 Aug	Wed	Aid el-Addha Holiday
2017	1 Sep	Fri	Aid el-Addha
	2 Sep	Sat	Aid el-Addha Holiday