The second term runs through the whole of February with no scheduled break in it. Where Ramadan falls inside February 2028, school hours shorten alongside the working day, timetables compress and sports fixtures move to the evening — the single largest adjustment the academic year asks of anyone, and the reason UAE term dates are published year by year rather than fixed once.
The working-day count for February 2028 comes down to its 29 days measured against the weekends, with nothing fixed subtracted from them. Where Eid Al Fitr falls inside February, three consecutive days come out — and where any of the three meet a Saturday or Sunday they are lost rather than moved, which is the largest single source of variation in the UAE calendar.
February 2028 runs to 29 days — the only month whose length moves, at 28 in an ordinary year and 29 in a leap one — inside a year of 366 days. Ten months follow it, and the first of them ends the comfortable half of the calendar and opens the long approach to summer.