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PyCalendar API: Moroccan Holidays & Calendar Client for Python

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PyCalendar API is the official Python client wrapper for the Calendar-API.ma platform. It allows developers to programmatically fetch Moroccan public holidays, track Hijri calendar events, and compute local business day data.

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✨ Key Features

  • Moroccan Public Holidays: Dynamically fetch national, religious, and exceptional holidays.
  • Dual Calendar Support: Track Religious and Exceptional holidays for accurate calculation and history sanitization.
  • Business Day Calculations: Calculate working days, skipping custom weekends and local banking closures.
  • Modern Python Design: Built with dataclasses, fully typed, and automatic JSON-to-Python object conversion.
  • Minimal Dependencies: Lightweight and fast.
  • Advanced Configuration: Supports .toml files for timeout, proxy, and certificate management.

📦 Installation

Install the latest version from PyPI: 

pip install pycalendar-api

Quick Start & Usage Examples

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Instanciate the API Client by providing one the active API Keys from your console

from pycalendar_api import CalendarApi, to_date  # Util function for date creation

>>> api = CalendarApi('YOUR_API_KEY')
>>> print(api.health())
ApiHealth(api_status="UP", appname="calendar-api", timestamp=datetime.datetime.now())

🌙 Holidays API

Holidays domain of Calendar API.

  • Check if a date is a holiday
from pycalendar_api import CalendarApi, to_date

api = CalendarApi('YOUR_API_KEY') # or api = CalendarApi.from_env()

# Check if a date is a Holiday
>>> result = api.holidays.is_holiday(to_date('14/01/2025'))
>>> print(result)
HolidayCheckResult(
    date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 14), is_holiday=True,
    description="Nouvel An Amazigh", holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>,
    status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'
)
  • List holidays of a year or many years
>>> result = api.holidays.year(2025)
>>> print(result)
[
    Holiday(description="Jour de l'AN", day=1, month=1, date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 1), holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>, status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'),
    Holiday(description="Manifeste de l'Indépendance", day=11, month=1, date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 11), holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>, status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'),
    Holiday(description="Nouvel An Amazigh", day=14, month=1, date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 14), holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>, status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'),
    ...,
]

# List Holidays of many years
>>> result = api.holidays.years(list(range(2017, 2027)))
>>> print(result)
[
    Holiday(description="Jour de l'AN", day=1, month=1, date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 1), holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>, status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'),
    Holiday(description="Manifeste de l'Indépendance", day=11, month=1, date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 11), holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>, status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'),
    Holiday(description="Nouvel An Amazigh", day=14, month=1, date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 14), holiday_type=<CalHolidayType.NATIONAL: 'National'>, status=<CalHolidayStatus.OFFICIAL: 'Official'>, country_code='MA'),
    ...,
]

🏢 Business Days API

Business days domain of Calendar API.

Bdays operations

  • Fetch the next or previous Business day
# Next Business day
result = api.bdays.next_date(to_date('13/01/2025'))
>>> print(result)
NextDate(date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 13), next_date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 15))

# Previous Business day
result = api.bdays.previous_date(to_date('15/01/2025'))
>>> print(result)
PreviousDate(date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 15), previous_date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 13))
  • List Business days of a year or a month
# Business days of a year
result = api.bdays.bdays_of(2025)
>>> print(result)
DateSeries(
   ref='bdays-2025', min_date='2025-01-02', max_date='2025-12-31', freq=<CalFreq.DAILY: 'D'>, nitems=247,
   serie=SortedSet([datetime.date(2025, 1, 2), datetime.date(2025, 1, 3), datetime.date(2025, 1, 6), ..., datetime.date(2025, 12, 29), datetime.date(2025, 12, 30), datetime.date(2025, 12, 31)])
)

# Business days of a month
result = api.bdays.bdays_of(2025, month=6)
>>> print(result)
DateSeries(
   ref='bdays-2025-06', min_date='2025-06-02', max_date='2025-06-30', freq=<CalFreq.DAILY: 'D'>, nitems=19,
   serie=SortedSet([datetime.date(2025, 6, 2), datetime.date(2025, 6, 3), datetime.date(2025, 6, 4), datetime.date(2025, 6, 5), ..., datetime.date(2025, 6, 25), datetime.date(2025, 6, 26), datetime.date(2025, 6, 30)])
)
  • Count or List Business days between 2 dates
# Count Business days between 2 dates
>>> count = api.bdays.count(to_date('02/01/2025'), to_date('31/12/2025'))
>>> print(count)
DaysCount(start_date=datetime.date(2025, 1, 2), end_date=datetime.date(2025, 12, 31), count=247, freq=<CalFreq.DAILY: 'D'>)

# List Business days between 2 dates
>>> between = api.bdays.between(to_date('02/01/2025'), to_date('31/12/2025'))
>>> print(between)
DateSeries(
   ref='bdays', min_date='2025-01-02', max_date='2025-12-31', freq=<CalFreq.DAILY: 'D'>, nitems=247,
   serie=SortedSet([datetime.date(2025, 1, 2), datetime.date(2025, 1, 3), datetime.date(2025, 1, 6), ..., datetime.date(2025, 12, 29), datetime.date(2025, 12, 30), datetime.date(2025, 12, 31)])
)

Spans: Start/End of periods

Calculate the interval composed of the start and end dates of a given period. The start and end dates are open business days.

Successive intervals can be linked

# =============== SPANS: Start/End of periods ===============
# Year 2025 span
>>> span_year = api.bdays.span(2025)
>>> print(span_year)
CalSpan(start_date=datetime.date(2024, 12, 31), end_date=datetime.date(2025, 12, 31), year=2025, semester=None, quarter=None, month=None, country_code='MA')

# 1st Semester of year 2025
>>> span_s1 = api.bdays.span(2025, semester=1)
>>> print(span_s1)
CalSpan(start_date=datetime.date(2024, 12, 31), end_date=datetime.date(2025, 6, 30), year=2025, semester=1, quarter=None, month=None, country_code='MA')

# 3rd Quarter of year 2025
>>> span_quarter = api.bdays.span(2025, quarter=3)
>>> print(span_quarter)
CalSpan(start_date=datetime.date(2025, 6, 30), end_date=datetime.date(2025, 9, 30), year=2025, semester=None, quarter=3, month=None, country_code='MA')

# Month 7 of year 2025 (July) 
>>> span_month = api.bdays.span(2025, month=7)
>>> print(span_month)
CalSpan(start_date=datetime.date(2025, 6, 30), end_date=datetime.date(2025, 7, 31), year=2025, semester=None, quarter=None, month=7, country_code='MA')

🏷️ Enum Properties

These properties are present in the response objects and can be used as query parameters.

🗂️ Holiday Type (StrEnum)

A holiday is categorized into one of the following types:

Value Description
National The date is a national holiday.
Religious The date is a religious holiday (check the status to see if it is confirmed).
Exceptional The date is an exceptional or bridge holiday.

🌕 Holiday Status (StrEnum)

These statuses apply to religious holidays, which are Estimated before moon sighting and change to Official once confirmed.

💡 Tip: Consider hourly polling for religious holidays marked as Estimated.

Value Description
Official The holiday is officially confirmed.
Estimated The religious holiday is pending moon sighting confirmation.

🛠️ Support

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