Tourist Attractions & Monuments Algeria

Offices are generally open from 8am to 4:30pm, banks from 8:30am. Weekly rest days are now Fridays and Saturdays, Friday being prayer day. Banks are closed on Saturdays, but most shops are open. Don't forget to take into account siesta time in summer and Ramadan, during which administrations operate at a slower pace (closing at 3pm) and restaurants and bars are closed. Shops are open all day, until the break of the fast (ftour), and reopen, like cafés, a few hours after ftour until late in the evening...

Fixed-date holidays: January¹: New Year's Day; January 12: Yennayer (Amazigh New Year's Day); May¹: Labor Day; May 8: Commemoration of the events of May 8, 1945 (Massacres of Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata); July 5: Independence and Youth Day; November¹: Anniversary of the November^1, 1954 revolution.

Religious holidays with variable dates: Aïd el-Fitr: feast of the breaking of the fast (Ramadan); Aïd el-Adha: feast of the sacrifice (Aïd el-Kébir); Mouharram: day of the Hegira New Year; Achoura: ^10th day of Mouharram; Mouloud: anniversary of the birth of the Prophet.