The Hijri New Year falls in June in two of the five years from 2026 to 2030 and in May in the other three. It marks 1 Muharram, the first day of the Islamic year, and it is the holiday the Cabinet has moved by several days to sit at the edge of a working week — which is why the date printed on a UAE calendar and the date in the lunar reckoning do not always agree.
June closes the second quarter of 2027 on the 30th and takes the calendar past its own halfway mark. For the visitor economy it is the bottom of the year: hotel occupancy at its lowest, the indoor attractions carrying what trade there is, and the summer programmes already running in the malls that will hold it up until October.
June 2027 runs to 30 days and closes the first half of a year of 365. Six months remain, carrying the rest of the summer, the return of the school year in August, the outdoor season from November and the two days of Eid Al Etihad at the start of December.