United Arab Emirates · Religious festival
Arafah Day and Eid Al Adha 2027 in the United Arab Emirates: Dates, Campaign Timeline and Ideas
The short answer
- Dates
- Dates not announcedUnited Arab Emirates, 2027, not announced
- How certain
- Not announcedThe company or body that sets this has not announced 2027 yet. No date is shown.
- Source
- The Official Portal of the UAE GovernmentChecked 10 October 2026
Note: 2027 date not announced. u.ae gives Arafah Day as 9 Dhu Al Hijjah and Eid Al Adha as 10 to 12 Dhu Al Hijjah, and says Islamic holidays are determined according to moon sighting, so no 2027 calendar date has been published. This page carries no date rather than a calculated one.
What it is, and why advertisers care
Arafah Day followed by the three days of Eid Al Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. u.ae lists them as consecutive holidays. For advertisers it is a long break that pulls travel, gifting and food spend together, with the exact days set only after the moon is sighted.
What people are actually buying
Descriptions of the occasion, not promises about what will work. What works is an account question and this page has no data on your account.
- a four-day run of consecutive holidays
- travel booked around a date that is only confirmed late
- food, gifting and family-gathering demand
Who gains
| Category | Why |
|---|---|
| Travel | people travel to be with family, and book well ahead |
| Gifting | the gift is given, not optional |
| Food and sweets | the food is the occasion |
| Fashion and apparel | new clothes are part of the occasion itself, not an upsell |
| FMCG | pack sizes and multipacks move on household stocking up |
| Ecommerce | the whole category bids into the same days |
Ad platform notes
What Google documents about bidding through a seasonal peak is the same for every moment on this calendar, so it is on one page instead of repeated here: Ad platform planning for seasonal events. A note appears in this section only when a platform says something about Arafah Day and Eid Al Adha itself.
Before you launch
Creative
- One set of assets per placement, not one resized five ways. Current dimensions: meta ads, instagram, google ads.
- Offer legible at thumbnail size, before anyone taps.
- Dates on the creative if the offer ends, so nothing runs stale.
Measurement, and what breaks
- Check conversion tracking before the spend ramps, not after.
- Agree the attribution window now. Changing it mid-season makes the numbers unreadable.
- Compare against the same weeks last year in your own account, not against a published benchmark.
- The three that actually land mid-season: facebook ad rejected, facebook ad set not delivering, facebook pixel not firing.
- Keep a note of what you changed and when, so next year starts from evidence.
Official sources
- Public holidays, u.ae
The Official Portal of the UAE Government · accessed 10 October 2026
Last verified 10 October 2026. Every source above is re-fetched monthly and the quoted line is checked against it again. If a source disappears, the page says so rather than dropping the date.
Questions people ask
When is Arafah Day and Eid Al Adha 2027 in the United Arab Emirates?
Arafah Day and Eid Al Adha, the United Arab Emirates: no 2027 date is published yet. 2027 date not announced. u.ae gives Arafah Day as 9 Dhu Al Hijjah and Eid Al Adha as 10 to 12 Dhu Al Hijjah, and says Islamic holidays are determined according to moon sighting, so no 2027 calendar date has been published. This page carries no date rather than a calculated one.
Where to go next
Creative sizes and specs
the current dimensions, from each platform's own documentation
When it breaks
the disapprovals and delivery problems that actually land mid-season
How the platforms rank and price
official ranking signals, sourced, not recycled myths
The terms
plain definitions, with a position taken
What changed this month
A campaign planned in September and launched in October runs on whatever the platforms shipped in between.