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There are several public holidays in Azerbaijan. Public holidays were regulated in the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR for the first time on 19 May 1921. They are now regulated by the Constitution of Azerbaijan.^[1]

Holidays

Main holidays

Date	English name	Azerbaijani name	Remarks
1–2 January	New Year's Day	Yeni il	2 days
20 January	Martyrs' Day	Qara Yanvar (Klirneri Or)	Commemorates Black January (1990) when Soviet troops entered Baku and killed more than 130 civilians.^[2]
8 March	Women's Day	Qadınlar günü	1 day
20–24 March	Spring Festival	Novruz / Mor Kuneli Or	5 days
9 May	Victory Day over Fascism	Faşizm üzərinə qələbə günü	In honor of victory of the USSR over Nazi Germany during World War II.
28 May	Independence Day	Müstəqillik Günü	Founding of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (1918).
15 June	National Salvation Day	Azərbaycan xalqının Milli Qurtuluş günü	Parliament invited Heydar Aliyev to Baku to lead the country (1993).
26 June	Azerbaijan Armed Forces Day	Azərbaycan Respublikasının Silahlı Qüvvələri günü	Commemorates the founding of the Azerbaijani National Army on this day in 1918.
8 November	Victory Day	Zəfər Günü	Commemorates the Azerbaijani victory in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war as well as in the Battle of Shusha. It is a non-working day.
9 November	State Flag Day	Dövlət Bayrağı günü	Commemorates the adoption of the Flag of Azerbaijan on November 9, 1918,^[3] which was officially established on November 9, 2009, as the State Flag Day.^[4]
31 December	International Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis	Dünya Azərbaycanlılarının Həmrəyliyi günü	Inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the nationalist Popular Front of Azerbaijan called for and lead the removal of borders between Soviet Azerbaijan and Iran on December 31, 1989. This has since been celebrated by Azeris around the world as the International Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis.^[5]
Changes due to the Islamic lunar calendar	Eid al-Fitr	Ramazan Bayramı	2 days
Changes due to the Islamic lunar calendar	Eid al-Adha	Qurban Bayramı	2 days

Other observances

National days in Azerbaijan that are working days follows:

30 January – Day of Azerbaijani customs
2 February – Day of Youth in Azerbaijan^[6]
11 February – Day of Revenue Service
26 February – Khojaly massacre commemoration day
5 March – Day of Physical Culture and Sport
23 March – Day of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
28 March – Day of National Security
10 April – Day of the builder
10 May – Flower Festival
2 June – Day of Civil Aviation
5 June – Day of Reclamation
18 June – Human Rights Day
20 June – Day of the gas sector
2 July – Day of Azerbaijani Police
9 July – Day of the employees of the diplomatic service
22 July – National Press Day in Azerbaijan
1 August – Day of Azerbaijani language and alphabet.
2 August – National Day of Azerbaijani cinema
15 September – Day of Knowledge
18 September – Day of National Music
20 September – Day of Azerbaijani Oil / Oil Workers' Day^[7]
27 September – Memorial Day
1 October – Day of prosecutors in Azerbaijan ^[8]
13 October – Day of Azerbaijani Railway
18 October – Independence Restoration Day
6 November – Day of Baku Metro Employees
12 November – Constitution Day
17 November – National Revival Day
22 November – Day of Justice of Azerbaijan
6 December – Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan
12 December – Memorial Day of Heydar Aliyev
16 December – Day of Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations

Religious days

Only the holidays of Ramadan and Qurban remain as non-working religious days in Azerbaijan, as the country is highly secular and irreligious.^[9]^[10] The religious population of the country, mainly in Nardaran and a number of other villages and regions, celebrate the Day of Ashura, a Shia mourning day in the Islamic calendar. Religious minorities of the country – mainly Orthodox Christians and Jews - also celebrate notable religious days of their faith.^[11] Despite the fact that the holiday Novruz takes its roots from the religion of Zoroastrianism, almost all Azerbaijanis celebrate it as a holiday of spring.