No public holiday falls in October in any year between 2026 and 2030. It sits in the middle of the gap that runs from the last lunar holiday of the summer to Eid Al Etihad on 2 December, and the stretch it belongs to is the longest run of uninterrupted working weeks the UAE calendar produces.
Europe puts its clocks back on the last Sunday of October, and the UAE keeps UTC+4 exactly as it did the day before. From that Sunday London is four hours behind again rather than three, and continental Europe three rather than two — the second of the two annual shifts that happen entirely outside this country and change nothing whatsoever inside it.
October 2026 closes with the outdoor season fully open and the clocks in Europe already back. November follows with the most reliable weather of the year, Flag Day on the 3rd, and the run-up to the national holiday at the start of December.