Eid Al Adha (second day) 2027

Type of holiday: statutory public holiday, a non-working day.

The second day of Eid Al Adha, 11 Dhu al-Hijjah, is one of the days that follow the feast and on which the sacrifice and the distribution of meat may continue. It is a statutory non-working day in the UAE and appears here as a separate page because it is a separate date in the calendar and a separate deduction in the working-day count.

The shape of these days

The tone is different from the first morning. The prayer and the sacrifice are done; what remains is hospitality — visiting, the majlis, long lunches, the delivery of shares of meat to relatives and to charitable collection points. Households that arranged a donation rather than a personal sacrifice receive confirmation of where it went. In the residential districts the streets are quiet through the middle of the day and busy from late afternoon.

The country empties

Along with Eid Al Fitr, this block is one of the two peak outbound travel periods of the UAE year. Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports run near capacity, with the heaviest volumes on the routes to South Asia, the Levant, Egypt and the Philippines, from which much of the resident population comes. Domestically, the mountain roads and the east coast beaches take the traffic that does not leave. Where the block sits close to the school summer break, the two reinforce each other and the outbound wave starts earlier.

What this does to business

Many private companies extend the closure beyond the statutory days, joining the block to the adjacent weekend or simply standing down for the week. Construction and industrial sites adjust shift patterns around both the holiday and the summer midday work restrictions. In practical terms, reaching a supplier, a government department or a bank relationship manager during this period is unrealistic, and anything time-critical belongs either well before the block or firmly after it.

One caution about the number this site produces. The working-day calculator deducts the federal statutory days and nothing else. It does not know, and cannot know, that a particular office has chosen to close for two additional days, or that a free zone has published its own schedule. The figure is a calendar count against the law, not a forecast of any one organisation's availability — and over an Eid block the difference between the two is routinely several days.