Umm Al Quwain National Day Celebrations

Umm Al Quwain is the least developed and second smallest emirate, built around a lagoon with mangroves and an old town on a sand spit, and its National Day observance is correspondingly modest: parades, fireworks over the creek, and the whole population in the street.

No attendance figure applies.

Its interest is as a control case. Every emirate marks 2–3 December, and the contrast between Dubai's projections onto the world's tallest building and a town of 80,000 on a lagoon is the clearest illustration available of how uneven the federation is.

The emirate is also where the country's oldest archaeological sites sit — Ed-Dur, occupied two thousand years ago — and almost nobody goes.

PlanningFixed on 2–3 December with National Day; a local observance rather than a spectacle.

Dates

computed from the rule

20262–3 December

20272–3 December

20282–3 December

20292–3 December

20302–3 December

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.