Office and bank holidays in Kazakhstan in 2023

Every year offices and employees around Kazakhstan are interested to find out where the office holidays fall in the calendar. Kazakhstan has relatively many public holidays, and in 2023 they are as follows.

  • 2nd and 3rd of January – New Year´s days
  • 8th of March – Women´s Day
  • 21-23 March – Nauryz Meyrami holidays
  • 1st of May – People´s Unity Day
  • 8-9 May – Defender of the Fatherland day and Victory Day
  • 28th of June – Kurban Ait
  • 6-7 July – Capital City Day (1st of July will be a working day)
  • 18-19 December – Independence Days

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