Magal de Touba 2024, 2025 and 2026 in Senegal
Magal de Touba is a public holiday in Senegal. It falls on the eighteenth day of the Islamic month of Safar, and its date therefore varies from year to year on the Gregorian Calendar.
| Year | Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22 Aug | Thu | Magal de Touba |
| 2025 | 12 Aug | Tue | Magal de Touba |
| 2026 | 1 Aug | Sat | Magal de Touba |
| Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. | |||
Magal de Touba is a day of a great religious pilgrimage to the city of Touba where a grand celebration, sometimes involving millions of people, takes place. The event is in commemoration of the exile of Sufi religious leader Ahmadou Bamba from Senegal to neighbouring Gabon.
The French colonial authorities feared Bamba might use his great and growing popularity to start an uprising against them. But this never happened, and Bamba never said he desired to start a revolt. Bamba was in exile for 12 years, and his religious movement only grew larger during this period.
Today, Bamba’s followers visit the large mosque in Touba in which Bamba is buried to remember his exile and his teachings and to pay their respects to him.
Previous Years
| Year | Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 Sep | Sun | Magal de Touba |
| 2022 | 14 Sep | Wed | Magal de Touba |
| 2021 | 25 Sep | Sat | Magal de Touba |
| 2020 | 5 Oct | Mon | Magal de Touba |
| 2019 | 17 Oct | Thu | Magal de Touba |
| 2018 | 28 Oct | Sun | Magal de Touba |
| 29 Oct | Mon | Magal de Touba Holiday | |
| 2017 | 8 Nov | Wed | Magal de Touba |