The Prophet's birthday is a public holiday in the UAE and is observed with readings and sermons rather than the Sufi processions, lights and sweet markets that mark the same day in Cairo, Lamu or northern Nigeria — all of which the Codex holds as separate entries.
That difference is worth recording rather than collapsing. The same date in the Hijri calendar produces a street festival in one country and a quiet holiday in another, and a register that files Mawlid once, globally, loses that.
No attendance figure applies.
The date drifts about eleven days earlier each Gregorian year.
PlanningA single public holiday on a drifting lunar date.
Dates
calendar conversion — may move a day
Computed from the recurrence rule we record for this entry, not copied from a listing. A date marked ~ comes from a calendar conversion and the observance may fall a day or two either side.