Sri Lankan Public Holidays for 2020 Announced

The Sri Lankan Government have announced the dates of the Public and Bank Holidays for 2020.

The Public and Bank Holidays for Sri Lanka in 2020 were announced in an Extraordinary Gazette notification on June 7th 2019.

Internal, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Vajira Abeywardana issued the Gazette notification

Of the 26 listed holidays, six fall on a Saturday or Sunday. May is the month with the most public holidays with May day, Vesak and Eid al-Fitr all falling on weekdays. July and November are months with no weekday holidays as the Poya days fall on weekends and Diwali falls on a Saturday in November.

The list of Public and Bank Holidays for 2020 are shown below.

Weekday	Date	Holiday	Comments
Friday	Jan 10	Duruthu Full Moon Poya
Wednesday	Jan 15	Tamil Thai Pongal Day	Tamil Nadu
Tuesday	Feb 04	National Day
Saturday	Feb 08	Navam Full Moon Poya
Friday	Feb 21	Mahasivarathri Day
Monday	Mar 09	Madin Full Moon Poya
Tuesday	Apr 07	Bak Full Moon Poya
Friday	Apr 10	Good Friday	Friday before Easter Sunday
Sunday	Apr 12	Sinhala and Tamil New Year Eve
Monday	Apr 13	Sinhala and Tamil New Year
Friday	May 01	Labour Day	International Workers’ Day
Thursday	May 07	Vesak Full Moon Poya	Birth of Buddha
Friday	May 08	Vesak Full Moon Poya Holiday
Monday	May 25	Id-Ul-Fitr	Ramazan Festival Day
Friday	Jun 05	Poson Full Moon Poya
Saturday	Jul 04	Esala Full Moon Poya
Saturday	Aug 01	Idul Adha	Hajjhi Festival Day
Monday	Aug 03	Nikini Full Moon Poya
Tuesday	Sep 01	Binara Full Moon Poya
Thursday	Oct 01	Vap Full Moon Poya
Friday	Oct 30	Milad-Un-Nabi	Birthday of Prophet Muhammad
Friday	Oct 30	Vap Full Moon Poya
Saturday	Nov 14	Deepavali Festival Day	Dewali
Sunday	Nov 29	Ill Full Moon Poya
Friday	Dec 25	Christmas Day
Tuesday	Dec 29	Unduvap Full Moon Poya