Kazakhstan Public Holidays 2026–2027: Dates & CSV

Kazakhstan’s current holidays law lists Republic Day on 25 October as the national holiday and nine state holidays, including Constitution Day on 15 March. The law was checked on 6 September 2026. Its amendment effective 1 July 2026 must not be used to claim that 15 March 2026 was a day off retroactively.

For trip planning, distinguish statutory holiday dates, replacement rest days and additional work-calendar transfers. This page provides a current-law CSV, a dated 2026 calendar snapshot and preliminary 2027 dates. It is not a complete, newly verified annual work calendar.

Quick Facts

• Current legal categories: one national holiday and nine named state holidays in Articles 2–3 of Law No. 267. These are named holidays, not a count of days off.
• National holiday: Republic Day, 25 October. Independence Day, 16 December, is a state holiday.
• Constitution Day: 15 March in the law version effective from 1 July 2026; do not apply that version retroactively to March 2026.
• Nauryz: statutory dates are 21–23 March. A longer break depends on the year and workweek.
• Weekend overlap: Article 5 makes the next working day a rest day when a weekly rest day and a statutory holiday coincide. Additional transfers require separate confirmation.
• Calendar limits: the 2026 table below preserves the April snapshot. Its dates match the gov.kz calendar read on 6 September, but that page still carries an update date of 22 April 2026.

2026 Calendar: Archived April Snapshot

The following dates were recorded from the eGov holiday calendar, whose recorded update date was 22 April 2026. They are retained for historical reference, not presented as a freshly verified September calendar. The legal labels below distinguish state holidays from the national holiday.

Date	Observed	Holiday (English)	Holiday (Kazakh)	Type
1-2 January	1-2 January	New Year	Жаңа жыл	State
7 January	7 January	Orthodox Christmas	Православное Рождество	Religious
8 March	9 March (transferred)	International Women’s Day	Халықаралық әйелдер күні	State
21-23 March	24-25 March (partly transferred)	Nauryz Meiramy	Наурыз мейрамы	State
1 May	1 May	People’s Unity Day	Қазақстан халқының бірлігі мерекесі	State
7 May	7 May	Defender of the Fatherland Day	Отан Қорғаушы күні	State
9 May	11 May (transferred)	Victory Day	Жеңіс күні	State
27 May	27 May	Kurban Ait (Eid al-Adha)	Құрбан айт	Religious
6 July	6 July	Capital City Day	Астана күні	State
25 October	26 October (transferred)	Republic Day	Республика күні	National
16 December	16 December	Independence Day	Тәуелсіздік күні	State

Constitution Day is absent from this archived table. That omission does not describe the current law: Article 3 now gives 15 March, with the cited amendment effective from 1 July 2026. Neither the archived omission nor the amended law establishes a retroactive day off in March 2026.

What About 30–31 August 2026?

30 August is not listed as Constitution Day in the holidays law effective from 1 July 2026. This page has not verified a separate replacement day off on 31 August 2026. Article 1, paragraph 26 of Law No. 306-VIII adds 15 March and removes the previous Constitution Day entry. Article 2 sets 1 July 2026 as the effective date; its listed exceptions and transitional provisions do not give paragraph 26 a different date or a special holiday arrangement for 2026.

The official gov.kz calendar, read on 6 September 2026, still shows an update date of 22 April 2026 and omits Constitution Day. It does not resolve the transition or establish a special August replacement day. Do not infer that everybody worked on 30 August: it was a Sunday, and ordinary weekly rest days depend on the work schedule. For an actual closure or payroll decision on 30–31 August, the applicable work calendar and any separate transfer decision remain necessary. The current-law CSV is not evidence that Kazakhstan had no day off for Constitution Day anywhere in 2026.

2027 Planning Dates - Not an Official Calendar

These are the fixed dates in Articles 2–3 of the law checked on 6 September 2026, applied as preliminary planning dates for 2027. They do not include replacement rest days, extra transfers or religious non-working days.

Statutory date	Holiday	Legal category
1–2 January	New Year	State
8 March	International Women’s Day	State
15 March	Constitution Day	State
21–23 March	Nauryz Meiramy	State
1 May	People’s Unity Day	State
7 May	Defender of the Fatherland Day	State
9 May	Victory Day	State
6 July	Capital City Day	State
25 October	Republic Day	National
16 December	Independence Day	State

Confirm the applicable 2027 work calendar, workweek and any later law changes before using these dates for payroll or fixed travel plans. This table does not predict the first day of Kurban Ait or label a projected lunar date as official.

Calendar 2025 (Reference)

Historical table retained from the previous edition; not reverified in September 2026. Its observed dates should not be used as rules for another year. In particular, the Constitution Day date below belongs to the historical table, not the current statutory-date CSV.

Date	Observed	Holiday
1-2 January	1-2 January (3 Jan transferred from 5 Jan)	New Year
7 January	7 January	Orthodox Christmas
8 March	10 March (transferred)	International Women’s Day
21-23 March	24-25 March (partial)	Nauryz Meiramy
1 May	1 May	People’s Unity Day
7 May	7 May	Defender of the Fatherland Day
9 May	9 May	Victory Day
6 June	6 June	Kurban Ait
6 July	7 July (transferred)	Capital City Day
30 August	1 September (transferred)	Constitution Day
25 October	27 October (transferred)	Republic Day
16 December	16 December	Independence Day

How Kazakhstan Holiday Transfers Work

Article 5 of the holidays law states that national and state holidays are non-working days. When a weekly rest day coincides with a holiday, the next working day is a rest day. This default rule is distinct from an additional transfer of a working day or rest day under a separate decision.

A Saturday is not automatically a weekly rest day for every work schedule. The five-day and six-day workweeks can therefore produce different breaks. Check the applicable schedule and any additional official transfer decision; this page has not verified a complete set of 2026 or 2027 transfer orders.

The archived April 2026 snapshot lists replacement dates of 9 March, 24–25 March, 11 May and 26 October. These are historical calendar entries, not evidence of a newly issued transfer order.

Holiday Categories Explained

National and state holidays

The Russian legal terms are национальные праздники (national holidays) and государственные праздники (state holidays). Article 2 names Republic Day as the national holiday. Article 3 lists the nine state holidays shown in the preliminary fixed-date table above. New Year and Nauryz each span more than one statutory date.

Religious holidays (религиозные праздники)

Orthodox Christmas and the first day of Kurban Ait appear separately in the archived calendar. They are outside the Articles 2–3 dataset provided here. The archived 2026 dates are 7 January and 27 May; their presence in that snapshot does not validate any 2027 lunar-date forecast.

Long Weekends and Travel Planning

The archived 2026 calendar records the Nauryz dates of 21–23 March and replacement rest days on 24–25 March. For a standard Saturday–Sunday weekend, these entries describe a 21–25 March break; they do not establish a five-day break for every work schedule.

Do not treat 7–11 May 2026 as one continuous five-day holiday. The dates of Defender of the Fatherland Day and Victory Day, together with the archived 11 May replacement, do not establish 8 May as a day off. An additional transfer would need its own official evidence.

Holiday periods can affect opening hours and demand. Check the carrier, hotel, park or embassy for the exact dates of your trip. This dataset does not estimate fares, hotel occupancy or closure rates.

This edition covers Kazakhstan’s current statutory dates and the explicitly dated calendar material below. It does not provide a verified reform timeline or a comparable cross-country count of days off.

Downloadable Dataset

Download current statutory holiday dates: CSV

The current-law file contains 10 rows: one national holiday and nine state holidays, checked against Articles 2–3 on 6 September 2026. New Year and Nauryz use date ranges within one row each. It excludes religious non-working days, observed dates, replacement days and annual work schedules.

Column	Meaning
name_en, name_ru	English label and Russian legal name
category	national or state, following Articles 2–3
month, start_day, end_day	Fixed statutory date or inclusive date range; no annual observed date
law_article, source_url	Legal article and primary source
law_version_effective_from	1 July 2026, the effective date of the cited amended version; not the original creation date of each holiday
checked_date	Date this compilation was checked against the law
notes	Scope and, for Constitution Day, the non-retroactivity limitation

Archived CSV files

The two legacy files remain available unchanged for reproducibility:

• kazakhstan-public-holidays-2025-2027.csv
• kazakhstan-public-holidays-2026.csv

Both files contain the same 43 records: 15 for 2025, 14 for 2026 and 14 for 2027. The second filename does not reflect its actual mixed-year coverage. Their old type=national label combines national and state holidays; it is not the current legal distinction. The 2027 rows contain unverified observed-date projections and a Kurban Ait estimate, and omit Constitution Day. Do not use either file as a complete current calendar or final 2027 work schedule.

The archived columns are date, date_observed, name_en, name_kz, name_ru, type, working_status and year. A populated date_observed or non_working value in those files does not turn a historical forecast into a verified fact.

License: the compilation is available under CC BY 4.0. Attribute about-kazakhstan.com and cite the underlying official source. For the new file, include “current statutory dates, checked 6 September 2026”; identify the old files as archived compilations when citing them.

Methodology and Verification

The current-law CSV transcribes the one holiday in Article 2 and nine holidays in Article 3 of Law No. 267, “On Holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan”. The Russian source was read on 6 September 2026. Its footnote cites Law No. 306-VIII of 11 June 2026, effective 1 July 2026. The new file records this version date and preserves multi-day holidays as inclusive ranges.

The eGov link used by the earlier edition returned a generic homepage. The alternative gov.kz calendar was successfully read in Kazakh on 6 September: its fixed dates, listed replacements and 27 May Kurban Ait date match the April snapshot above. Its own update date remains 22 April 2026, so this is not evidence of a revised post-July work calendar. The 2025 reference table and the legacy CSV’s observed dates were not independently reverified. The 2027 fixed-date table uses the current law and does not predict religious dates or annual transfers. Article 1, paragraph 26 and the full Article 2 of Law No. 306-VIII were also checked for the Constitution Day transition.

For Journalists, HR, and Travel Industry

For a citable statement about the law, use the current statutory-date CSV and include its version and checked date. For a statement about an actual day off in a particular year, also verify the annual work calendar and workweek.

Suggested citation: Konabayev, T. (2026). Kazakhstan statutory holiday dates, law version effective 1 July 2026, checked 6 September 2026. about-kazakhstan.com; underlying source: Law No. 267, Articles 2–3, Adilet.

Sources

• Adilet: Law No. 267, “On Holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan” (Russian): current legal categories, fixed dates and Article 5 weekend-overlap rule; checked 6 September 2026.
• Adilet: Law No. 306-VIII (Russian): Article 1, paragraph 26 and Article 2, including effective-date exceptions and transitional provisions; checked 6 September 2026.
• gov.kz: 2026 holiday calendar (Kazakh): read 6 September 2026; page update date 22 April 2026. Confirms the listed April calendar entries, not a new post-July calendar.
• eGov holiday calendar: provenance of the archived April 2026 calendar; the calendar body was not available at this URL during the September check.

Related guides

For planning context, use Nauryz in Kazakhstan, Best time to visit Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan travel tips and the Almaty guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many national and state holidays does Kazakhstan's current law list?

Articles 2–3 list one national holiday, Republic Day, and nine named state holidays. This is a count of named holidays, not total days off: New Year and Nauryz span multiple dates, and religious non-working days and work-calendar transfers are outside that count. The law was checked on 6 September 2026.

When is Constitution Day in Kazakhstan?

Article 3 of the current holidays law gives 15 March. The cited amendment took effect on 1 July 2026, so this version must not be used to assert that 15 March 2026 was a day off retroactively. The date is included in our preliminary 2027 statutory-date table.

Was 30 August 2026 still Constitution Day, with a day off on 31 August?

The holidays law effective from 1 July 2026 lists Constitution Day on 15 March, not 30 August. Law No. 306-VIII does not give its holiday amendment a special 2026 transition in Article 2. The gov.kz calendar read on 6 September still carries an April update date and does not establish a separate 31 August replacement day. That replacement status remains unverified here; 30 August was also an ordinary Sunday, so actual rest days depend on the applicable work schedule. Do not use this statutory-date CSV as a complete 2026 work calendar.

When is Nauryz in 2026?

The statutory dates are 21–23 March. The archived eGov snapshot dated April 2026 also records replacement rest days on 24–25 March. A 21–25 March break assumes a standard Saturday–Sunday weekend; confirm the applicable work schedule.

Is 7–11 May 2026 a continuous holiday in Kazakhstan?

Not established by the dates on this page. Defender of the Fatherland Day is 7 May, Victory Day is 9 May, and the archived calendar lists 11 May as a replacement rest day. These entries do not make 8 May a day off; an additional transfer needs separate official evidence.

When is Kurban Ait in Kazakhstan in 2026?

The April 2026 calendar records 27 May. The alternative official gov.kz page read on 6 September repeats that date, while retaining its April update date. The new statutory-date CSV excludes religious dates and does not project Kurban Ait for 2027.

Where can I download Kazakhstan holiday data as CSV?

The current statutory-date CSV at about-kazakhstan.com/datasets/kazakhstan-statutory-holiday-dates.csv contains 10 named national and state holidays checked against the law on 6 September 2026. Two legacy CSV files are also linked as archives; both contain 43 mixed-year records and unverified 2027 projections, not a final annual work calendar.

Last reviewed: September 6, 2026 (current statutory dates and legal categories), against Adilet. Archived calendar dates and observed-day forecasts were not comprehensively reverified.