The Prophet Mohammed's Birthday falls in July in two of the five years from 2026 to 2030 and in August in the other three, marking 12 Rabi al-Awwal. It is a single day off, and where it lands on a Saturday or Sunday it produces nothing at all — UAE law does not shift a holiday that collides with the weekend, in July or in any other month.
The 31 days of July 2030 carry no holiday fixed to a date. Where the Prophet's Birthday falls inside the month it removes one day, and the week is otherwise Monday to Friday as always, with the Friday finishing early — the same short day that runs through every month of the UAE year without exception.
The turn from July into August changes nothing about the temperature and everything about the air. July 2030 hands over dry, uncompromising heat to a month in which the dew point climbs, glasses fog on the way out of a building, and the reading on the thermometer stops describing what the day actually feels like.