Pakistan Holidays & Long Weekends For 2026: Plan Your Vacation With Wego’s Public Holiday Calendar

Optional holidays are rationed. A government servant gets one a year if Muslim and three if not, at the head of the organisation’s discretion. Nothing on this page counts one into a break.

Bank holidays are not employee holidays. On 1 January and 1 July banks close to the public but not to their own staff, so stretching a trip across New Year costs you a leave day.

26 December 2026 is for Christians only, not a general day off.

Exporters are exempt from these holidays if they pay overtime for them.

Ten, and your employer picks which ten. The Shops and Establishments legislation in every province says the same thing: every employee gets ten days of festival holidays on full wages a year, and the dates are notified to employees by the employer at the start of the calendar year.

The federal Cabinet Division list runs to twelve days and almost every employer adopts it, but no law compels a particular date. Ask your employer which ten it has notified before you book.

No. There is no substitution and no day in lieu. A public holiday that lands on a Saturday or Sunday is lost.

The government’s own notification shows it: Eid-ul-Fitr 2026 was notified for Saturday 21, Sunday 22 and Monday 23 March with no compensating Tuesday.

That is why 5 of the 18 dates on this page buy nothing. 2027 is the worst of it: Labour Day, Independence Day and Quaid-e-Azam Day all fall on a Saturday, and Eid Milad-un-Nabi is expected on the Sunday after Independence Day, so one August weekend swallows two holidays.

Because the calendar does not change by province and the fare does. Pakistan has one national list, notified federally and forwarded to the provincial, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan governments.

Provinces do declare the odd extra day, and Sindh does it every 27 December for Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary, but those are annual executive circulars rather than a standing gazetted list, and how far they reach into the private sector is stated inconsistently even by the notifications themselves.

What does change with your city is what you can reach and what it costs. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Multan sit up to 1,500km apart with genuinely different route maps.

Then every break here costs you one more leave day than it says, because the figures assume a Saturday and Sunday weekend.

Sunday is the only weekly holiday guaranteed anywhere in Pakistan. The federal government runs both patterns at once: the Establishment Division sets one schedule for offices working Monday to Friday and another for offices working Monday to Saturday. Shops, factories and much of the private sector are on the six-day pattern, and the statutory floor is one weekly holiday, not two.

Not yet, and the page marks which ones are in doubt. The Cabinet Division issues the year’s circular in January, so the 2027 circular has not been issued at the time of writing.

The fixed dates are safe: Kashmir Day, Pakistan Day, Labour Day, Youm-e-Takbeer, Independence Day, Allama Iqbal Day and Quaid-e-Azam Day fall on the same date every year.

The four Islamic dates carry an asterisk because they wait on the sighting of the moon, and published lists already disagree by a day: one has Eid-ul-Fitr on 9 to 11 March 2027 and another on 10 to 12 March. This page takes the three-day reading of each Eid, because that is what Pakistan notified in 2026. Treat an Eid trip as bookable but movable.

It is over. The federal government did notify a four-day week, Monday to Thursday, on 10 March 2026 under the austerity package during the oil crisis.

It was withdrawn after 100 days, on 20 June 2026. Balochistan was the last to unwind it and restored Friday as a working day on 31 August 2026. A search still surfaces the March notification without a date attached; no break on this page assumes a Friday holiday.

They are days off for the people who claim them, and they are not general holidays.

The circular allows a government servant one a calendar year if Muslim and three if not, at the discretion of the head of the organisation. Diwali, Holi, Good Friday, Baisakhi and Guru Nanak’s birthday are all on that list. Nothing on this page counts one into a break.

Because Wego cannot sell you the flight, and this page only prices what Wego sells.

Skardu is on the published schedule from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, and Islamabad alone shows twelve flights a week. Every fare search came back with zero bookable options from all three. Multan to Karachi is the same.

So the northern airfields are worth a long weekend and worth booking direct with the airline. Check the flight first: Skardu and Gilgit close for weather regularly, and a November or February trip there is a flight that may not go.

No. They are live from snapshots taken when this page was built, for one adult in economy on the dates named beside them, priced in Pakistani rupees.

Use them to compare one destination or departure city against another, then open the live search for your own dates. Checked baggage and cancellation terms are not settled by fare data; confirm both with the airline.