Flag Day on the 3rd is marked across the country, with flags raised at 11 am at government buildings and schools, and it is not a day off. November carries no public holiday in any year from 2026 to 2030; the next one is Eid Al Etihad on 2 December, and its two days are the only holidays fixed to a date in the whole second half of the year.
November sits in the middle of the fourth quarter of 2026 and is where the following year is planned. Budgets, headcount and the audit timetable are all settled in these weeks, on a corporate year that runs with the Gregorian calendar from January to December rather than on any separate financial year.
November 2026 runs to 30 days, eleven months into a year of 365. One month remains, and it carries the only two-day holiday fixed to a date on the UAE calendar, the shortest daylight of the year at about 10 hours 20 minutes, and in one of these five years the second Ramadan of the same twelve months.