User:John Carter/Holidays

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  • Abkhazians – Major holidays (Liberation Day; Lykhny Meadow; New Year)*;
  • Adjarians – Major holidays (International Women's Day; Men's Day; New Year's Eve; Ramadan)*;
  • Afghanis – Major holidays (Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; Ashura; Jeshn or Independence Day; Mawoulid An-Nawabi; Muslim New Year; Nawruz; Ramadan; Revolution Day; Worker's Day or Labor Day)**;
  • African Americans – Major holidays (Birthday of Malcolm X; Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Juneteenth; Kwaanza)*;
  • African Brazilians – Major holidays (February 2 – Iemanja; Carnival; Liberation of Brazilian slaves)*;
  • Afrikaners – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Boxing Day; Christmas; Day of Goodwill; Day of Reconciliation; Day of the Covenant; Easter Monday; Family Day; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Heritage Day; Human Rights Day; National Women's Day; New Year's Day; Worker's Day; Youth Day)**;
  • Ahirs – Major holidays (Diwali; Gopashtami; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Janamastami)*;
  • Ainu – Major holidays (Cipsanke; Iomante)**;
  • 'Alawis – Major holidays (Nowruz)*;
  • Albanians – Major holidays (Albanian Independence Day; Christmas; Dita e Veres; Easter; Labor Day; Liberation Day; Mother Teresa Day; Ramadan; St. Nicholas's Day)**;
  • Algerians – Major holidays (Algerian Independence Day; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Labor Day; New Year's Day)**;
  • Alsatians – Major holidays (Ami Fritz Festival; Candlemas; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Corsos fleuris; Easter; Epiphany; Feast of St. Nicholas; Musician's Festival; Saint John Fires Day)**;
  • Altays – Major holidays (festival of Erlik; festival of Ulgen; New Year's Day; Victory Day)*;
  • Ambonese – Major holidays (Idul Fitri)*;
  • American immigrants – Major holidays (American Independence Day; Cambodian American New Year; Chinese New Year; Columbus Day; Hmong New Year; Labor Day; Mardi Gras; Memorial Day; New Year's Day; Rosh Hashanah; St. Patrick's Day; Thanksgiving; Vietnamese New Year)*;
  • Americans – Major holidays (Independence Day; Thanksgiving Day)*;
  • Amhara – Major holidays (Battle of Adwa Day; Feasts(s) of Gabriel; Feast(s) of George; Feast(s) of Mary; Feast(s) of Michael; Freedom Day)*;
  • Amish – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Christmas; Easter; Good Friday; Pentecost)*;
  • Andalusians – Major holidays (Andalusia Day; Corpus Christi; Day of St. Peter and St. Paul; Epiphany; Holy Week; Horse Fair; New Year's Day; Romeria del Rocio; St. James's Day; St. John's Night; St. Joseph's Day; Virgen del Carmen)*;
  • Andhras – Major holidays (Chauti; Dasahara; Divali; Holi; Pochamma; Rath Saptami; Shivaratri; Ugadi)*;
  • Andorrans – Major holidays (Andorran National Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Good Friday; New Year's Day)*;
  • Anglo Australians – Major holidays (ANZAC Day; Australia Day; Boxing Day; Christmas; Easter)**;
  • Anglo Indians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter Sunday; Good Friday)*;
  • Angolans – Major holidays (Angolan Independence Day; Armed Forces Day; Christmas; Day of the Martyrs; Foundation of the MLPA Workers' Party Day; Inicio de Luta Armada; Mardi Gras; National Hero's Day; New Years' Day; Pioneers' Day; Reconciliation Day; Victory Day; Youth Day)*;
  • Antiguans and Barbudans – Major holidays (Antigua and Barbuda Independence Day; Boxing Day; CARICOM Day; Carnival; Christmas Day; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Whit Monday)*;
  • Argentines – Major holidays (Argentine Independence Day; celebration of the May Revolution of 1810; Christmas; Dia de San Martin; Easter; Malvinas Day)*;
  • Armenians – Major holidays (Armenian earthquake of April 24; Armenian Genocide Day; Christmas; Easter; Independence from the Soviet Union Day; New Year's Day; Vardavar)**;
  • Asháninka – Major holidays (Festival of the Moon)*;
  • Asian Indian Americans – Overview (holidays – American Independence Day; Baisakhi; Buddha Purnima; Deepvali or Diwali; Durga Puja; Dussehra; Gandhi Jayanti; Holi; Id'Ul'Fitr; Id-Uz-Zuha; Indian Independence Day; Janmashtami; Mahavir Jayanti; Muharram; Onam; Pongal or Sankranti; Ramadan; Republic Day)***;
  • Australian Aborigines – Major holidays (Australia Day)*;
  • Austrians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Boxing Day; Corpus Christi; 1955 Declaration of Neutrality Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Fasching; Feast of St. Leonard; Feast of St. Martin; Feast of the Ascension; Feast of the Assumption; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Krampus night; Labor Day; St. Nicholas's Day; Schemenlaufen; Whitmonday)**;
  • Aymara – Major holidays (Bolivian Independence Day; Carnival; Christmas; Dia del Indio; Easter)*;
  • Azerbaijanis – Major holidays (Black January – January 20; Independence Day; New Years Day; Novruz)**;
  • Baganda – Major holidays (Christmas; Ramadan)*;
  • Bahamians – Major holidays (Bahamas Independence Day; Discovery Day; Emancipation Day; Junkanoo; Labor Day)*;
  • Bahrainis – Major holidays (Ashura; Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr;Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; National Day; New Year's Day; Ramadan)*;
  • Bai – Major holidays (Memorial Ceremony for the Dead; Rao San Ling; Spring Festival; Third Month Fair; Torch Festival; Yu Tan Hui)**;
  • Bajau – Major holidays (Dakampungan)*;
  • Bakongo – Major holidays (annual Kimbangua day; April 6 (beginning of Kimbangua's healing ministry); Birthday of Papa Dialungana; Christmas; Death of Kimbangua; Easter; Parents' Day)*;
  • Balinese – Major holidays (Eka Dasa Rudra; Galungan; Nyepi)**;
  • Balūchi – Major holidays (Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; 10th of Muharrum)*;
  • Bamana – Major holidays (Bamana New Year)*;
  • Banias – Major holidays (Death of Mahavira; Divali; Ganupati)*;
  • Banjarese – Major holidays (Aruh menyanggar banua; Aruh terbang besar; Mawlud)*;
  • Banyankole – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Barbadians – Major holidays (Barbados Independence Day; Baron Bliss Day; CARICOM Day; Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; May Day; New Year's Day; United Nations Day; Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday)*;
  • Bashkirs – Major holidays (New Year's Day; Qorban Bayrami; Sabantuy; Victory Day; Yiyin)*;
  • Basques – Major holidays (St. John's Day; Virgen Blanca; Virgen de Begona; Virgen del Carmen)*;
  • Bedu – Major holidays (Ayd al-Adha; Ayd al-Fitr)*;
  • Belarusans – Major holidays (Christmas; Christmas Eve; Easter; Palm Sunday)*;
  • Belgians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Anniversary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs; Christmas; Easter Monday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Ommegang; Shrove Tuesday Carnival)*;
  • Belizeans – Major holidays (Belize Independence Day; Birthday of the British monarch; Columbus Day; Commonwealth Day; Garifuna Settlement Day; St. George's Caye Day; San José Succotz – March 19 and May 3; Yancanú)*;
  • Bemba – Major holidays (Zambia Independence Day)*;
  • Bengalis – Major holidays (Divali; Durga Puja; Holi; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram)*;
  • Beninese – Major holidays (Benin Independence Day; Christmas; Easter; Ramadan; Tabaski)*;
  • Berbers – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Labor Day; New Year's Day)**;
  • Bhils – Major holidays (Bhagoriya Festival; Dashara; Divali; Gauri; Holi)*;
  • Bhutanese – Major holidays (Domchheo; King's birthday; Losar; National Day; Tsechu)*;
  • Bhutia – Major holidays (Asadh Shankranti; Bikhid; Lapsa; Losar; Losoong)*;
  • Bolivians – Major holidays (Bolivian Independence Day; Carnival; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter; Labor Day; Pookhyái)**;
  • Bosnians – Major holidays (Bosnian New Year; Catholic Christmas; Day of the Republic; Eid al-Fitr; Korrida; Marshal Tito's birthday; New Year's Day; Orthodox Christmas; Ramadan)**;
  • Brahmans – Major holidays (Shravani-purnima)*;
  • Brahui – Major holidays (Imamak)*;
  • Brazilians – Major holidays (Carnival)*;
  • Bretons – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Bastille Day; Christmas; Epiphany; Feast of the Assumption; Labor Day; New Year's Day; World War II Armistice Day)*;
  • Bruneians – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas Day; Hari Raya Ed-il-Fitri; Hari Raya Haji; Hijrah; Hijrah Hari Raya Aidiladha; Isra' Mikraj; Muhammad's birthday; National Day; New Year's Day; Nuzul al-Quran; Royal Brunei Armed Forces Day; Sultan's birthday)*;
  • Buddhists in South Asia – Major holidays (birthday of the monk who founded Lamaism; Buddha Purnima; end of Bhiksu Vassa; Madhu Purnima; Magha Purnima; Wheel of Law Day)**;
  • Bulgarians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of Letters; Easter Monday; Labor Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Buriats – Major holidays (Buriat New Year; Christmas; Easter; International Women's Day; Soviet victory over Nazis - May 9; Tsagaalgan)*;
  • Burkinabe – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; 'id al-Fitr; 'id al-Kabir)*;
  • Burman – Major holidays (Light Festival; Martyr's Day; Myanmar's national day; New Year; Thingan or Water Festival; Union Day)*;
  • Burundians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption Day; Burundi Independence Day; Christmas; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Umuco)**;
  • Buyi – Major holidays (Buffalo King Festival; Genjiang; Mid-Autumn Festival; Spring Festival)*;
  • Cajuns – Major holidays (Mardi Gras)*;
  • Cambodian Americans – Overview (holidays – Chaul Chnam)***;
  • Cameroonians – Major holidays (Christmas; Christmas Eve; National Day; New Year's Day; Youth Day)*;
  • Canadians – Major holidays (Canada Day; Labour Day; New Year's Day; Thanksgiving Day; Victoria Day)*;
  • Cape Verdeans – Major holidays (Assassination of Amilcar Cabral; Cape Verde Independence Day; Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Tabanka)*;
  • Castilians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of Saint Peter and Saint Paul; Easter; Festival of San Isidro; National Day; New Year's Day; St. James's Day; St. Joseph's Day)*;
  • Catalans – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas; Day of the Dead; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Anthony; Feast of St. George; Feast of St. John; Feast of St. Peter; La Diada; Pentecost)*;
  • Central Africans – Major holidays (Central African Republic Independence Day)*;
  • Chadians – Major holidays (Chad Independence Day)*;
  • Chagga – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter weekend; Id-el-Fitre; Id-el-Hajj; Maulid; New Year's Day; Peasants Day; Tanzanian Independence Day; Union Day; Workers Day)*;
  • Chākmās – Major holidays (Bishu; Buddha Purnima)*;
  • Cham – Major holidays (Bon Cabur; Bon Kate; Eidul-Fitr; Ramadan)**;
  • Chamārs – Major holidays (Divali; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Nagpanchami)*;
  • Chechens – Major holidays (Day of International Socialism; New Year's Day; Russian National Pride Day)**;
  • Chewa – Major holidays (Malawi Independence Day; 3 March – remembrance of those who died in the struggle for independence)*;
  • Chileans – Major holidays (Army Glories Day; Chilean Independence Day; Labor Day; Naval Glories Day; Race Day)*;
  • Chin – Major holidays (arrival of Christian missionaries; Chin National Day; Christmas; Easter; Harvest Festival)*;
  • China and her national minorities – Major holidays (Lantern Festival; Mid-Autumn Festival; National Day of China; Qingming; Spring Festival)**;
  • Chinese Americans – Overview (holidays – Bomb Day; Chinese New Year; Ching Ming; fall Moon Festival)***;
  • Choctaw – Major holidays (Mississippi Choctaw's Indian Fair)*;
  • Chuvash – Major holidays (Akatui; Surhuri)*;
  • Circassians – Major holidays (New Year's Eve; Russian Black Sea victory - May 21)*;
  • Colombians – Major holidays (Colombian Independence Day; Discovery of America – October 12; Easter)*;
  • Colored people of South Africa – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Day of Goodwill; Day of Reconciliation; Family Day; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Heritage Day; Human Rights Day; National Women's Day; New Year's Day or “Coon Carnival”; Workers' Day; Youth Day)**;
  • Comanches – Major holidays (Comanche Homecoming; Comanche Nation Fair)*;
  • Comorians – Major holidays (birth of Muhammad; Comoros Independence Day; Idd el Adha; Idd el Fitri; Labor Day; March 16 – Death of President Said Mohammed Cheik; Miraj; New Years' Day)*;
  • Congolese (Brazzaville) – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Congolese (Brazzaville) Independence Day; Easter; National Reconciliation Day; New Years' Day)*;
  • Congolese (Zairians) – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; May 20 – Foundation o the Popular Revolutionary Movement Party; New Years' Day; Parents' Day; Zairian Independence Day)*;
  • Coptic Christians – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Assumption Day; Circumcision of the Lord; Coptic Christmas; Easter; Entrance into Egypt; Entrance into the Temple; Epiphany; Great Lent; Holy Thursday; Palm Sunday; Pentecost; Thomas Sunday; Transfiguration)*;
  • Costa Ricans – Major holidays (Christmas Eve; Costa Rican Independence Day; Holy Week; Our Lady of the Angels)*;
  • Creeks – Major holidays (Green Corn Ceremony)*;
  • Creoles of Louisiana – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Mardi Gras)*;
  • Creoles of Sierra Leone – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; end of Ramadan; Sierra Leone Independence Day)*;
  • Croats – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Anti-Fascist Struggle Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Corpus Christi; Croatian Independence Day; Croatian National Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of the Assumption; International Labor Day; Kurban Bairam; Mardi Gras; New Year's Day; Orthodox Christmas; Ramadan Bairam; Rosh Hashanah; St. Nicholas's Eve; Victory and Thanksgiving Day; Yom Kippur)*;
  • Cuban Americans – Overview*** (holidays – All Saints' Day; Christmas Eve; Epiphany; Feast of Our Lady of Charity; Feast of Santa Barbara; Good Friday; Holy Week; Palm Sunday);
  • Cubans – Major holidays (Epiphany; January 1; July 26; May Day; October 10)*;
  • Cunas – Major holidays (Colombian Independence Day; Panamanian Indepdence Day)*;
  • Czechs – Major holidays (Christmas Eve; Czechoslovak Independence Day; end of World War II; Jan Hus Memorial Day; New Year's Day; Saint Nicholas's Day; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day; Velvet Revolution Day)*;
  • Dai – Major holidays (Aowasa Festival; Closed-Door Festival; Dampa Festival; Dandanmu Festival; Dangang Festival; Danmuohaban Festival; Danpopazhao Festival; Haolunwa Festival; Haowasa Festival; Hunaglu Festival; Multicolored Egg Festival; Opened-Door Festival; Shanghan Festival; Spring Festival; Wagter-splashing Festival)**;
  • Dakota and Lakhota – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Fourth of July; Sisseton Wahpeton Wacipi; Sun Dance; Thanksgiving; Veterans Day)*;
  • Danes – Major holidays (American Independence Day; Ascension Thursday; Boxing Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Constitution Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Holy Thursday; Liberation Day; Monday before Shrove Tuesday; Pentecost; queen's birthday; Store Bededag; Whitmonday)*;
  • Dani – Major holidays (Pig Feast)*;
  • Derong – Major holidays (Kaqueqi Festival)*;
  • Djiboutians – Major holidays (birthday of Muhammad)*;
  • Dominicans (Dominica) – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Boxing Day; Carnival; Christmas Day; Community Service Day; Creole Day; Dominican Independence Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; May Day; National Day or Independence Day; New Year's Day; Whit Monday)*;
  • Dominicans (Dominican Republic) – Major holidays (Christmas; Corpus Christi; Day of Our Lady of Altagracia; Dia de Duarte; Dominican Republic Independence Day; Dominican Restoration Day; Feast of Our Lady of Mercy; Good Friday; Labor Day)*;
  • Dong – Major holidays (Dong's New Year; Festival of the Birth of the Buffalo God; Spring Festival)*;
  • Dyula – Major holidays (Donba; Sunkalo; Tabaski)*;
  • Ecuadorians – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; New Year's Day)*;
  • Egyptians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Evacuation Day; Labor Day; Mother's Day; National Day; New Years' Day; Revolution Day; Sham al-Nism; Sinai Liberation Day; Victory Day)**;
  • Embu – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Kenya Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Emirians ((United Arab Emirates) – Major holidays (accession of Sheikh Zayid of Abu Dhabi – August 6; al-Mawlid An-Nabi; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Isra' wa Al-Mi'raj; 1st of Muharram; National Day; New Year's Day; individual holiday of each emirate)*;
  • English – Major holidays (August Bank Holiday; Guy Fawkes' Night; May Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • English in South Africa – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Day of Reconciliation; Family Day; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Human Rights Day; Worker's Day)*;
  • Equatorial Guineans – Major holidays (Armed Forces Day; Equatorial Guinea Independence Day)*;
  • Eritreans – Major holidays (Beginning of Armed Resistance Day; Eid al-Fahta; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Nabi; Eritrean Independence Day; Fasika; Labor Day; Martyrs' Day; Meskel; New Year's Day; Timkat; Western Christmas; Women's Day)**;
  • Estonians – Major holidays (Christmas; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; St. John's Night or Midsummer's Day)**;
  • Ethiopians – Major holidays (Ethiopian Independence Day; Ethiopian New Year)*;
  • Evenki – Major holidays (New Year's Day; Victory Day)*;
  • Ewe – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Ghana Independence Day; Hogbetsotso Za; New Year's Day; Republic Day; Workers' Day; Yam Festival)*;
  • Ewenki – Major holidays (Aobao Gathering; Mikuole Festival; Spring Festival)*;
  • Fijians – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Constitution Day; Fiji Day; Hibiscus Festival; Queen of England's birthday)*;
  • Filipino Americans – Overview (holidays – Philippine-American Friendship Day; Philippine Independence Day; Rizal Day)***;
  • Filipinos – Major holidays (All Souls' Day; Christmas Day; Holy Week; Misa de Gallo; Santacruzan)**;
  • Finns – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Good Friday; Independence Day; May 1; New Year's Day)*;
  • Flemings – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Independence Day [Belgium]; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • French – Major holidays (Epiphany; Labor Day; Mardi Gras; New Year's Eve)*;
  • French Americans – Overview (holidays – Feast of St. John the Baptist – June 24; Mardi Gras)***;
  • French Canadians – Major holidays (Assumption Day; Christmas; Dollard Day or Victoria Day; Easter; St. Jean Baptiste Day – June 24)*;
  • French Guianans – Major holidays (Bastile Day; Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Feast of the Assumption; Labor Day)*;
  • Frisians – Major holidays (Ascension; Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Holy Saturday; Memorial Day; National Liberation Day; New Year's Day; queen's birthday; St. Nicholas's Day; Whitmonday)*;
  • Fulani – Major holidays (birth of Mohammad; Ramadan)*;
  • Gabonese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Gabon Independence Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Gambians – Major holidays (August 15 – Feast of St. Mary in Sanjul; Christmas; Gambian Independence Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Gaoshan – Major holidays (Bumper Harvest Festival; Good Year Festival; lunar New Year's Eve; Spring Festival)*;
  • Garifuna – Major holidays (Settlement Day)*;
  • Georgians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Independence Day; Mariamoba; National Unity Day; Rtveli; St. George's Day)*;
  • German Americans – Overview (holidays – German American Day; Oktoberfest)***;
  • Germans – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter; Fasching or Karneval; Feast of Corpus Christi; Good Friday; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Oktoberfest; Pentecost; Reformation Day; Repentance and Prayer Day; St. Nicolas's Day)**;
  • Ghanaians – Major holidays (Christmas; Damba; Ghana Independence Day; Homowo Festival; Republic Day)*;
  • Goans – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Feast of St. Francis Xavier; Ganesha Chaturthi or Chovoth; Good Friday; 'Id ul-'Adha'; 'Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Shigmo)**;
  • Gonds – Major holidays (Dasahara; Divali; Holi; Nagpanchami; Pola)*;
  • Greek Americans – Overview (holidays – Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; Good Friday; Great Saturday; Greek Independence Day; Holy Apostles' Day)***;
  • Greek Cypriots – Major holidays (Carnival; Day of Ascension; Feast of the Assumption of Mary; Greek Independence Day; Greek National Day; Green Monday; Holy Week; Independence Day; Kataklysmos; Pentecost)**;
  • Greeks – Major holidays (Easter; Holy Week)*;
  • Grenadians – Major holidays (August holidays - 1st Monday and Tuesday of August; Carnival; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Grenada Independence Day; Labour Day; New Year's Day; Thanksgiving; Whit Monday)**;
  • Guajiros – Major holidays (Festival of Uribia)**;
  • Guatemalans – Major holidays (Black Christ – January 15; Chiantala Virgin Mary – February 2; Chichicastenango; Garifuna arrival; Guatemalan Indepdence Day; Holy Week)**;
  • Guayanans or Guayanese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter Monday; end of Ramadan; Phagwah; Republic Day)*;
  • Guineans – Major holidays (August 17 – commemorating women's protest of 1977; Tabaski)*;
  • Guineans of Guinea-Bissau – Major holidays (Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguoiti; Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment; Christmas; International Women's Day; Korité; Labor Day; National Day or Independence Day; New Year's Day; Tabaski)*;
  • Gujaratis – Major holidays (birthday of Mohandas Gandhi; Id ul-Adha and Id al-Fitr (passim); the 6 Zoroastrian Gahambars; Janamashtami; Mahavira's birthday; Muharram; Navratri)*;
  • Gurungs – Major holidays (Baisakh Purnima; Dasain; Ghantu; Losar; Tihar)*;
  • Haitian Americans – Overview (holidays – Mardi Gras)***;
  • Haitians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; All Souls Day; Ancestor's Day; Anniversary of Jean-Jacques Dessaline's Death; Anniversary of the Battle of Vertières; Carnival; Christmas Day; Christmas Eve; Easter Sunday; Feast of the Assumption; Flag Day; Good Friday; Haitian Independence Day; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; Landing of Columbus on Hispaniola – December 5; New Year's Eve; Pan American Day)*;
  • Hakka – Major holidays (lunar New Year; Tomb-sweeping Day)*;
  • Han – Major holidays (Spring Festival; Moon Godess day – October 15)*;
  • Hani – Major holidays (June Festival; Mid-Autumn Festival; October Festival; Spring Festival)*;
  • Hausa – Major holidays (Birthday of Mohammed; Id al-Hajj; Ramadan)*;
  • Hawaiians – Major holidays (Aloha Week; Lei Day)*;
  • Hazaras – Major holidays ('Ashura; Ayd-Al-Adha; Ayd-Al-Fitr; Nawruz)*;
  • Hindus – Major holidays (Dasahara or Durga Puja; Divali; Holi; Janamashtami; Kumbha Mela; Onam festival; Pongal festival)**;
  • Hindus of Guyana – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter Monday; end of Ramadan; Phagwah; Ramayana Yagna; Republic Day)*;
  • Hmong – Major holidays (Hmong New Year)*;
  • Hmong Americans – Overview (holidays – New Year Festival)***;
  • Hondurans – Major holidays (Birthday of Francisco Morazán; Christmas; Easter Sunday; Esquipulas Jesus – January 15; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Feast of the Virgin of Supaya; Holy Week; Honduran Independence Day; Yancunú)*;
  • Hui – Major holidays (Corban Festival; Lesser Bairam; Mid-Autumn Festival; Shengji Festival; Spring Festival)*;
  • Hungarians – Major holidays (Busójárás; May Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Hutu – Major holidays (Burundi Independence Day; Genocide Memorial Day; May Day; National Heroes Day; National Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Patriotism Day; Rwanda Independence Day)*;
  • Iatmul – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Iban – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas; Gawai antu; Gawai batu; Gawai dayak; Gawai kenyalang; Gawai memali umai; Gwai nyintu orang sakit; Hari Raya)*;
  • Icelanders – Major holidays (Bank Holiday; Christmas; Easter Monday; Easter Sunday; First Day of Summer; Good Friday; Independence Anniversary; Labor Day; National Day; New Year's Day; Whitmonday; Whitsunday)*;
  • Igbo – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; New Year's Day; Nigerian Independence Day)*;
  • Ijo – Major holidays (Christmas to New Year's)*;
  • People of India – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; birthday of Buddha; Birthday of founder of Jainism; Birthday of Guru Nanak; Birthday of Mohandas Gandhi; Christmas; Dasahara; Divali; Good Friday; Holi; Id-ul-Fitr; Independence Day; Janamashtami; Republic Day; Shivratri)*;
  • Indo-Fijians – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Diwali; Fiji Day; Holi; Queen's Birthday; Ramadan)*;
  • Indonesians – Major holidays (Ascension Thursday; birth of Muhammad; Christmas; Good Friday; Idul Adha; Idul Fitri; Independence Day; Islamic New Year; New Year's Day; Night of the Ascent of Muhammad; Nyepi; Waisak)*;
  • Iranians – Major holidays (end of Ramadan; Id ul-Adha; Islamic Republic Day; Muharram; Now Ruz; Oil Nationalization Day; Revolution Day)**;
  • Iraqis – Major holidays (Ahura; Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; Christmas; Easter; Mawoulid An-Nabawi; Muslim New Year; Ramadan)**;
  • Irish Americans – Overview (holidays – St. Patrick's Day)***;
  • Irish – Major holidays (August Bank Holiday; Easter Monday; Easter Sunday; Good Friday; June Bank Holiday; New Year's Day; St. John's Day; St. Patrick's Day)*;
  • Iroquois – Major holidays (Border Crossing Day; New Year festival)**;
  • Israelis – Major holidays (Independence Day; Rosh Hashana; Yom Kippur)**;
  • Italian Americans – Overview (holidays – All Souls Day; All Souls Eve; Christmas; Columbus Day; Easter; Feast of John the Baptist – June 24; Feast of St. Lucy – December 13; Festa of San Gennaro)***;
  • Italians – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Labor Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Palio)*;
  • Ivorians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption; Christmas; Easter; Idul Fitri; Ivory Coast Independence Day; Labaski; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Pentecost)*;
  • Jains – Major holidays (Deva Divali; Mahavira Jayanti; Pajjusana)**;
  • Jamaicans – Major holidays (Ash Wednesday; Christmas; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Jamaican Independence Day; Jonkanoo)**;
  • Japanese – Major holidays (Autumnal Equinox; Bon Festival; Children's Day; Christmas; Coming of Age Day; Constitution Day; Culture Day; Emperor's Birthday; Greenery Day; Hina Matsuri; Labor Thanksgiving Day; National Foundation Day; New Year's Day; Respect the Aged Day; Sports Day; Valentine's Day; Vernal Equinox; White Day)**;
  • Japanese Americans – Overview (holidays – Bon Odori; Hatsu Mairi; Hina Matsuri; Shogatsu; Tanabata; Tango no Sekku)***;
  • Jats – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; Divali; Holi; Id ul-Fitr; Sakhi Sarwar festival; Vaisakhi)*;
  • Javanese – Major holidays (birthday of Muhammed; Muslim New Year)**;
  • Jewish Americans – Overview (holidays – Chanukah; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur)***;
  • Jews of Cochin – Major holidays (Passover; Rosh Hashanah; Simchat Cohen; Simchat Torah; Tisha be-Av)*;
  • Jola – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Gambia Independence Day; Good Friday; International Worker's Day; Islamic New Year; Liberation Day; Muhammad's birthday; New Year's Day; Senegal Independence Day)*;
  • Jordanians – Major holidays (accession of the king to the throne; Arab League Day; Arab Renaissance Day; Army Day; Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; Christmas; Independence Day; king's birthday; Labor Day; Mawoulid An-Nabawi; Muslim New Year; New Year's Day; Ramadan; Tree Day)*;
  • Kachins – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Kadazan – Major holidays (Harvest Festival or Magavau)*;
  • Kalenjin – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Jamhuri Day; Kenyatta Day; Madaraka Day; Moi Day)*;
  • Karachai – Major holidays (Day of National Resurgence)*;
  • Karakalpaks – Major holidays (Constitution Day; Novruz; Uzbekistan Independence Day; Victory Day)**;
  • Karens – Major holidays (Buddhist new year; Christmas; Easter; Karen New Year)*;
  • Kashmiris – Major holidays (Baisakhi; Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev; Divali; Durga Ashtami; Dussehra; Holi; Ids (unspecified); Khichri Amavasya; Navaratra; Navroz; Ramnavami; Rishi Pit anniversary; Shab-i Barat; Shab-i Mairaj)**;
  • Kayapos – Major holidays (Bemp)*;
  • Kazakh Chinese – Major holidays (Corban Festival; Nuoluzi Festival)*;
  • Keiyo – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Jamhuri Day; Kenyatta Day; Madaraka Day; Moi Day)*;
  • Kelabit – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas; Deepavali; Easter; Gawai Dayak; Hari Raya Puasa or Hari Raya Aidil Fitri; New Year's Day; Thaipusam; Wesak Day)*;
  • Kenyans – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Idd ul-futr; Kenyatta Day; Labor Day; Madaraka Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Khakass – Major holidays (May Day; Victory Day)*;
  • Khasi – Major holidays (Nongkrem Dance)*;
  • Khmer – Major holidays (birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha; Cambodian New Year; Festival of the Dead; Kathin)**;
  • Kittitians and Nevisians – Major holidays (Bank Holiday - 1st Monday in August; Boxing Day; Carnival; Christmas; Culturama; Emancipation of Slaves; Good Friday; Independence Day – September 19; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Prince of Wales' Birthday; Whit Monday)*;
  • Kolis – Major holidays (Attam; Hutasni)*;
  • Konds – Major holidays (Chawal Dhuba Jatra; Meriah festival; Semi Jatra)*;
  • Korean Chinese – Major holidays (Chinese Lantern Festival; founding of the Yambian Korean Autonomous Prefecture; Spring Festival)**;
  • Kosovars – Major holidays (Catholic Christmas; Constitution Day; Eid al-Fitr; Independence Day; Orthodox Christmas)**;
  • Kurds – Major holidays (birthday of Muhammad; Persian New Year)*;
  • Kuwaitis – Major holidays (Al-Mawlid An Nabawi; Eid Al-Adha; Eid Al-Fitr; Eid Al-Isra' wa Al-Mi'raj; First of Muharram; Liberation Day; National Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Kyrgyz – Major holidays (Christmas; New Year's Day)*;
  • Lao – Major holidays (Independence Day; National Day; Rocket Festival; Songkarn; That Luang Festival)**;
  • Latvians – Major holidays (All Fool's Day [April 1]; All Fool's Day [April 30]; Christmas; Easter; Ligo svçtki; St. John's Day; Special Harvest Day; Whitsuntide)**;
  • Lebanese – Major holidays (Ayd Al-adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Boxing Day; Christmas; Labor Day; Day of the Ascension; Easter; Feast of the Assumption; First of Muharram; Greek Orthodox Easter; Independence Day; Martyr's Day; New Year's Day; Ramadan; St Maroun's Day)**;
  • Lepchas – Major holidays (Boom koor)*;
  • Li – Major holidays (Spring Festival)*;
  • Libyans – Major holidays (Army Day; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Evacuation Day; Libyan Independence Day; Proclamation Day)**;
  • Liechtensteiners – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension; Bonfire Sunday; Candlemas; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Dirty Thursday or Sooty Thursday; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Joseph; Good Friday; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; National Day; Nativity of Our Lady; New Year's Day; Whit Monday)*;
  • Lingayat – Major holidays (Basava; Divali; Holi; Ugadi)*;
  • Lithuanians – Major holidays (Christmas Eve; Day of Independence Restored; Easter; Independence Day)**;
  • Luxembourgers – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption Day; Boxing Day; Broom Parade; Carnival; Christmas; Easter Monday; Labor Day; National Day; New Year's Day; St. Barthelemy's Day; Whitmonday)*;
  • Macedonians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of the Laborer; Day of the Woman; Easter; Ilinden Uprising)*;
  • Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs – Major holidays (Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; Ramadan)*;
  • Malagasay – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption; Christmas Day; Labor Day; Memorial Day; Monday Easter; Monday Pentecost Holiday; National Day; New Year's Day; Unity African Organization Day)*;
  • Malaysian Chinese – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas; Deepavali; Gawai Dayak; Hari Raya Puasa or Hari Raya Aidil Fitri; New Year's Day; Thaipusam; Wesak Day)*;
  • Malaysian Indians – Major holidays (Deepavali; Thaipusam)**;
  • Malaysian Malays – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christian New Year; Christmas; Deepavali; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Malaysian Independence Day; Muslim New Year; Wesak Day)**;
  • Maldivians – Major holidays (Birth of Mohammad; Bodu Eidh; Eid al-Fitr; Maldivian Independence Day; New Year's Day; Ramadan; Republic Day)*;
  • Malians – Major holidays (Christmas; Democracy Day; Easter; 'Id al-adha; 'Id al-fitr; Mali Independence Day)*;
  • Malinke – Major holidays (Birthday of Mohammad; Feast of Ramadan; Tabaski)*;
  • Maltese – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Feast of San Grigor; Feast of St. Joseph; Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul; Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Festival Mediterranean; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Holy Friday; Independence Day; L-Imnarja; Maltese Fireworks Festival; Maria Bambina; New Year's Day; Republic Day; St. Paul's Shipwreck; Sette Giugno; Victory Day; Worker's Day)**;
  • Man or Manchus – Major holidays (Chinese Spring Festival)*;
  • Maori – Major holidays (Waitangi Day)*;
  • Mapuches – Major holidays (Nquillatún)*;
  • Maräthas – Major holidays (birthday of Ganesha; Divali; Ganesha Chaturthi; Shivaji Jayanti)*;
  • Maris – Major holidays (Aga Pairem; Christmas; Easter; Küsoto Pairem; May Dayy; New Year's Day; Victory Day)*;
  • Maronites – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Feast of the Ascension; Feast of the Assumption; Festival of the Cross; St Maroun's Day)*;
  • Matsigenka – Major holidays (Moon Festival; Peruvian Independence Day)*;
  • Mauritanians – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Mauritania Independence Day)*;
  • Maya – Major holidays (Christmas; Crazy February; Holy Week)*;
  • Melpa – Major holidays (Mount Hagen Show)*;
  • Mennonites of Paraguay – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Pentecost)*;
  • Mexican Americans – Overview (holidays – Christmas; Cinco de Mayo; Diez y Seis; Easter)***;
  • Mexicans – Major holidays (Birthday of Benito Juarez; Christmas Day; Day of the Dead; Epiphany; Holy Week; Mexican Independence Day; Our Lady of Guadalupe)*;
  • Miao in China – Major holidays (Miao New Year; Spring Festival)*;
  • Micronesians – Major holidays (All Saints Day; Angam Day; Ash Wednesday; Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Minangkabau – Major holidays (Deaths of Hassan and Hussein)*;
  • Minas – Major holidays (Divali; Gangaur; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Tej)**;
  • Miskito – Major holidays (Christmas; New Year's Day)*;
  • Moldovans – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Independence Day; National Language Day)**;
  • Monégasques – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension; Assumption; Christmas; Day of Saint Roman; Easter; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; Martyrdom of St. Dévote; New Year's Day; Pentecost Monday; St. John's Day; Saint Rainier's Day)*;
  • Mongols in China – Major holidays (Aobao; Feast of Genghis Khan; Nadam Rally; Spring Festival)**;
  • Mons – Major holidays (Mon National Day)*;
  • Montenegrin – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; St. Luke's Day; Statehood Day)*;
  • Mordvins – Major holidays (Easter; May Day; New Year's Day; Orthodox New Year; Victory Day)*;
  • Mormons – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Pioneer Day)*;
  • Moro – Major holidays (Kabunsuan Festival; Ramadan)*;
  • Moroccans – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; King Hassan II's Coronation Day; Labor Day; Moroccan Independence Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Mossi – Major holidays (August 4 – Revolution (of 1983) Day; August 5 – Independence Day; Basega; December 11 – Proclamation of the Republic)**;
  • Motu – Major holidays (Hiri Festival)*;
  • Mozambicans – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Mozambique Independence Day)*;
  • Muslims in South Asia – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; Festival of Khawaja Mu'in-ud-din Chisti; Id ul-Fitr; Muslim New Year)**;
  • Namibians – Major holidays (Heroes Day; Independence Day; Red Day)*;
  • Native North Americans – Major holidays (American Independence Day; Canada Day)*;
  • Navajos – Major holidays (Fourth of July)*;
  • Naxi – Major holidays (Dragon King Festival; Farm Tools Festival; Mule and Horse Meeting; Spring Festival; Torch Festival)**;
  • Ndebele – Major holidays (Nyabela Day)*;
  • Nepālīs – Major holidays (Christmas; Dasain; Gai Jatra; Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; Indra Jatra; king's birthday; Lhosar Tamu; Lhosar Sonam; Mani Rimdu; National Unity Day; Seto Machhendranath)**;
  • Netherlanders – Major holidays (Liberation of the Netherlands; Memorial Day; New Year's Day; queen's birthday)*;
  • New Caledonians – Major holidays (Bastille Day)*;
  • New Zealanders – Major holidays (Anzac Day; birthday of the queen; Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Easter; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Waitangi Day)*;
  • Newars – Major holidays (Bhairava; Dasain; Divali; Holi; Indra Jatra; Macchendra Jatra)*;
  • Niasans – Major holidays (Boro n'adu)*;
  • Nicaraguans – Major holidays (feast of Saint Dominic; feast of Saint Jerome; Holy Week; Independence Day; La Purísima; Liberation Day; Posadas)**;
  • Nicobarese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr)*;
  • Nigerians – Major holidays (Argungu Fish and Cultural Festival; Easter; End of Ramadan; Good Friday; National Day; Tabaski)*;
  • Nigeriens – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Concord Day; Eid al-Fitr; Labor Day; Mouloud; New Year's Day; Niger Independence Day; Republic Day; Tabaski)*;
  • Ni-Vanuatu – Major holidays (Independence Day; John Frum Day)*;
  • Nivkhs – Major holidays (Bear Festival)*;
  • Norwegians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Constitution Day; Easter; Good Friday; Maundy Thursday; Midsummer's Eve)*;
  • Nyamwezi – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Good Friday; Id ul-Fitr; Id ul-Hajj; Islamic New Year; May Day/Workers' Day; New Year's Day; Prophet Muhammed's Birthday; Tanzania Independence Day; Union Day)*;
  • Ojibwa – Major holidays (Feast of the Dead; Harvest feast)*;
  • Omanis – Major holidays (A-Mawlid An-Nabawi; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Isra' wa Al Mi'raj; First of Muharram; National Day)*;
  • Oraons – Major holidays (Feast of the Sal blossoms; Jitia; Karam; Mukka Sendra or Janni Sendra; Phagu; Sarhul festival; Sohorai)**;
  • Oriya – Major holidays (Ratha Yatra)*;
  • Oromos – Major holidays (Buuta; Ireecha; Oromo National Day)*;
  • Ossetians – Major holidays (New Year's Day; Wastyrji festival)*;
  • Páez – Major holidays (Christmas; Holy Week)*;
  • Paiutes – Major holidays (National Indian Day)*;
  • Pakistanis – Major holidays (Bakr Id; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Ramadan)*;
  • Palestinians – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas; Day of Ascension; Easter; 'Eid al-Adha; 'Eid al-Fitr; end of Ramadan; Feast of the Assumption; first of Muharram; International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people; Muhammad's birthday; New Year's Day)**;
  • Pamiri – Major holidays (First furrow; Novruz)*;
  • Panamanians – Major holidays (Carnival; Festival of the Black Christ; Holy Week; Independence Days [November 2 and November 28]; Mothers' Day)**;
  • Paraguayans – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; Dia de la Virgen; Easter; War of the Triple Alliance Day – March 1)*;
  • Parsis – Major holidays (Gahambars; Mehragan; Noruz)**;
  • Pashtun – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Novruz; 10th of Muharram)*;
  • Pemon – Major holidays (Christmas; Holy Week)*;
  • Peoples of Dagestan – Major holidays (Eid al-Fitr; New Year's Day; Ramadan)*;
  • Peruvians – Major holidays (Independence Day; Lord of the Earthquakes festival)*;
  • Poles – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Constitution Day; Corpus Christi Day; Easter; Good Friday; Independence Day; Mother of God of Częstochowa; New Year's Day; St. John's Eve; Worker's Day)**;
  • Polynesians – Major holidays (Bastille Day)*;
  • Portuguese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Good Friday; Immaculate Conception; Liberty Day; New Year's Day; Portugal Day; Proclamation of the Republic Day; Restoration of Independence Day; Shrove Tuesday)*;
  • Puerto Ricans – Major holidays (Christmas; Fourth of July; Memorial Day; San Juan Bautista Day; Three Kings Day)*;
  • Punjabis – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; Dasahara; Diwali; Hindu New Year; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Vaisakh or Baisakh)*;
  • Qataris – Major holidays (Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-ism wa Al-Miraj; Mawoulid An-Nabawi; Muslim New Year; Ramadan)*;
  • Rajasthānis – Major holidays (Baneshwar Fair; birthday of Guru Nanak; birthday of Mahavira; Christmas; Dassehra; Diwali; Easter; Gangaur; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Nagaur Fair; Ramadan; Teej)**;
  • Rājputs – Major holidays (Dasahara; Divali; Shivratri)*;
  • Rakhines – Major holidays (Buddhist New Year; Thorn Garan)*;
  • Rohingyas – Major holidays (Eid Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Ramadan)*;
  • Roma – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Romanians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; New Year's Day)**;
  • Russians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of National Unity; Day of the Protector of the Motherland; Easter; Epiphany; Labor and Spring Day; New Year's Eve; St. Nicholas' Day; Victory Day; Women's Day)**;
  • Rwandans – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Christmas; Easter; Liberation Day; National day of Mourning – April 7; Rwanda Independence Day; Umuganura)*;
  • Saint Lucians – Major holidays (August Bank Holiday; Boxing Day; Carnival; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Independence Day; La Marguerite [feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque]; La Rose [feast of St. Rose of Lima]; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Queen of England's Official Birthday; St. Lucia Day; Thanksgiving Day)**;
  • Saint Vincentians – Major holidays (Big Drum festival; Boxing Day; CARICOM Day; Carnival Tuesday; Christmas; Easter Monday; Emancipation Day; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Day; Whit Monday)*;
  • Sami – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas Eve; Easter; Pikkujoulu; Sami National Day)*;
  • Sammarinese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Anniversary of St. Agatha; Anniversary of the Arengo; Ascension; Assumption; August Bank Holiday; Captains Regent's election days; Christmas; Commemoration of the Dead; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Marino; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Samoans – Major holidays (Mother's Day; National Independence days)*;
  • Santals – Major holidays (Baha; Dansae; Disom Sendra; Erok Sim; Hariar Sim; Iri-Gundhi Nawai; Janthar; Jom Sim; Magh Sim; Mak Mor; Sohrae)*;
  • São Toméans – Major holidays (Agricultural Reform Day; All Saints' Day; Armed Forces Day; Christmas Day; Labor Day; Martyrs' Day; New Year's Day; São Tomé Independence Day)*;
  • Sasak – Major holidays (Alip Festival; Bau Nyale; Maulid)*;
  • Saudis – Major holidays (first of Muharram; 'Id al-Adha; 'Id al-Fitr; 'Id al-Isra' wa al-Mi'raj; Mawlid An-Nabawi; National Day)*;
  • Scots – Major holidays (Burns Night; Christmas; Halloween; Hogmanay; St. Andrew's Day)*;
  • Seminoles and Miccousukees – Major holidays (Christmas; Green Corn Dance)*;
  • Senegalese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; end of Ramadan; Senegal Independence Day)*;
  • Serbs – Major holidays (Ascension; Christmas; Day of Saint Sava; Day of Statehood; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Good Friday; Holy Saturday; May Day or Labor Day; New Year's Day; Palm Sunday; St. Dimitri's Day; St. George's Day; St. John's Day; St. Michael's Day; St. Nicholas's Day; St. Vitus's Day; Victory Day; Visitation)*;
  • Seychellois – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Assumption Day; Christmas; Easter Sunday; Fête Dieu or Corpus Christi; Good Friday; Immaculate Conception; January 2; New Year's Day; Queen of England's official birthday)*;
  • Shambaa – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter weekend; Id el-Fitre; Id el-Hajj; Maulid; New Year's Day; Peasants' Day; Tanzania Independence Day; Union Day; Workers' Day)*;
  • Shans – Major holidays (Buddhist Lent; Mae waan; Rocket Festival)**;
  • Sherpas – Major holidays (Dumje; Losar; Mani Rimdu; Nyungne)**;
  • Shilluk – Major holidays (Sudan Independence Day)**;
  • Sikhs – Major holidays (birthday of Guru Nanak; birthday of Gobind Singh; Divali; Holi; martyrdom of Arjun Mal; Vaisakhi)*;
  • Sindhis – Major holidays (death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar; death of Sachal Sarmast; death of Shah Abdul Latif; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Ramadan)*;
  • Sinhalese – Major holidays (Esala Perahera; Sinhalese New Year; Vesak)*;
  • Slovaks – Major holidays (Christmas; Constitution Day; Cyril and Methodius Day; Day of Our Lady of Sorrows; Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy; Easter; Independence Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Slovak National Uprising Day)**;
  • Slovenes – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Assumption; Christmas; Easter; Independence Day; New Year's Day; Prešeren Day; Reformation Day; Statehood Day)*;
  • Somalis – Major holidays (Id al-Atah; Mowluud; Ramadan)*;
  • Songhay – Major holidays (end of Ramadan; Mowlid; Nigerien Independence Day; Tabaski)*;
  • Sotho – Major holidays (first black votes in national election; Day of Reconciliation; Heritage Day; Human Rights Day; Lesotho Inependence Day; Moshoeshoe's Day; Workers' Day; Youth Day)*;
  • South Koreans – Major holidays (birthday of Buddha; Cherry Blossoms Festival; Children's Day; Christmas; Constitution Day; Independence Movement Day; Liberation Day; Lunar New Year; Memorial Day; National Foundation Day; Snow Festival)**;
  • Spaniards – Major holidays (Carnival; Constitution Day; Day of St. Peter and St. Paul; Feast of La Merced; Festival of San Fermin; Festival of San Isidro; Fiesta del Trabajo; Hispanidad Day; National Day; New Year's Day; Night of St. John's Day; St. James's Day; St. Joseph's Day)*;
  • Sri Lankans – Major holidays (Esaa Perahera)*;
  • Sudanese – Major holidays (Christmas; Eid of sacrifice; end of Ramadan; Moulid; Sudan Independence Day)**;
  • Sumbanese – Major holidays (Pasola; Wula Padu)*;
  • Sumu – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Sundanese – Major holidays (Armed Forces Day; Kartini Day; New Year's Day; Pancansila Day)*;
  • Surinamese – Major holidays (Id ul Fitr; Independence Day; New Year's Eve)*;
  • Swahili – Major holidays (Idd al Fitr; Jamhuri Day; Madaraka Day)*;
  • Swazis – Major holidays (Incwala; Swazi Independence Day)*;
  • Swedes – Major holidays (All Souls' Day; Ascension Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Knut; Good Friday; May Day; Midsummer; New Year's Day; Shrove Tuesday; Summer Solstice; Valborgsmassoafton; Whit Monday)*;
  • Swiss – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Bundesfeier; Christmas; Easter Monday; Fastnacht; Good Friday; New Year's Day; Whitmonday)*;
  • Syrian Christians in India – Major holidays (Christmas; Dukka Valliacha; Easter; Easter Week)*;
  • Syrians – Major holidays (Arab League Day; Army Day; Christian New Year; Christmas; Correction Movement Day; Day of Mourning; Easter; Evacuation Day; first of Muharram; Flight Day; 'Id al-Adha; 'Id al-Fitr; 'Id al-Isra wa Al-Mi'raj; Marine's Day; Martyr's Day; Mawlid An-Nabawi;' Peasant's Day; Revolution Day/Women's Day; Security Force Day; Union Day; Veterans Day)*;
  • Tahitians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Armistice Day; Ascension Day; Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Bastille Day; Chinese New Year; Christmas; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Gospel Day; Heiva I Tahiti; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Victory Day; Whitmonday)*;
  • Taiwan indigenous peoples – Major holidays (Christmas; Harvest Festival)**;
  • Tajiks – Major holidays (Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; International Women's Day; Labor Day; Maulud al-Nabi; Navruz; New Year's Day; Tajik Independence Day; Victory Day)**;
  • Tamils – Major holidays (Pongal; Tamil New Year)*;
  • Tanzanians – Major holidays (beginning of Ramadan; Christmas; Easter; end of Ramadan; Labor Day; Mowlid; Nane Nane; SabaSaba; Union Day; Zanzibar Revolution Day)*;
  • Tao – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Lunar New Year)**;
  • Tatars – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; International Women's Day; Labor Day; Milad al-Nabi; New Year's Day; Nowruz; Victory Day)*;
  • Tausug – Major holidays (Haylaya; Maulud al-Nabi)**;
  • Tenetehara – Major holidays (Honey Festival; Maize Festival)*;
  • Thai – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; king's birthday; queen's birthday; Songkran)*;
  • Tibetans – Major holidays (April 15; Lantern Festival; Tibetan New Year)*;
  • Timorese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas Day; Consultation Day; Feast of the Assumption; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Good Friday; Independence from Indonesia Day; Independence from Portugal Day; Independence Day (West Timor); Isra Miraj Nabi Muhammad; Lebaran; Liberation Day; Maulad Nabi Muhammad; Muharram; New Year's Day; Santa Cruz Day; Waicak Day)*;
  • Tigray – Major holidays (Easter; Epiphany; Ethiopian New Year's Day)*;
  • Tlingit – Major holidays (Potlatch)*;
  • Tonga – Major holidays (African Freedom Day; Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Easter Monday; Farmers' Day; Good Friday; Heroes' Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Unity Day; Youth Day; Zambia Independence Day)*;
  • Trinidadians and Tobagonians – Major holidays (Carnival; Divali; Emancipation Day; Hosay; Independence Day; Ramleema)**;
  • Tuaregs – Major holidays (end of Ramadan; Ganni; Tabaski)*;
  • Tujia – Major holidays (Spring Festival)*;
  • Tunisians – Major holidays (Constitution Day; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Martyrs' Day; May Day or Labor Day; 7 November – Assumption of the Presidency by Ben 'Ali; 15 October – Final evacuation of the French in 1963; Proclamation of the Republic Day; Tunisia Independence Day; Women's Day)*;
  • Turkmens – Major holidays (Gurban bairamy; Independence Day; Memorial Day (1948 Ashgabat earthquake; Memorial Day (Veterans); Memorial Day (World War II); Neutrality Day; Nowruz; Oraz bairamy)*;
  • Turks – Major holidays (anniversary of Ataturk's death; Ataturk's birthday/National Youth and Sports Day; Berat Kandili; Children's Day or National Sovereignty Day; Kadir Gecesi; Miraç Kandili; New Year's Day; Ramazan; Recep Kandili; Republic Day; Şeker Bayrami; Victory Day)**;
  • Tutsi – Major holidays (Genocide Memorial Day; Independence Day; May Day; National Heroes Day; National Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Patriotism Day)*;
  • Tuvans – Major holidays (Anniversary of Bolshevik seizure of power; International Women's Day; May Day; New Year's Day; New Year's Eve; Shagaa; Soviet victory over Nazis)*;
  • Twa – Major holidays (Christmas; end of Nkumbi; Independence Day)*;
  • Tyrolese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Assumption of Mary; Austrian National Day; Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Nicholas; Festa della Liberazione; Italian Republic day - June 2; Labor Day; New Year's Day; St. Stephen's Day; Whit Monday)**;
  • Udmurts – Major holidays (Gerber; New Year's Day; Sabantuy; Victory Day)*;
  • Ugandans – Major holidays (Uganda Independence Day)*;
  • Uighurs – Major holidays (Corban Festival; Lesser Baraim; Naoluzi Festival)**;
  • Ukrainians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Ivana Kupala; New Year's Day)*;
  • Uruguayans – Major holidays (Carnival; Easter Week)*;
  • Uzbeks – Major holidays (Independence Day; Novruz; Victory Day)*;
  • Vaupes – Major holidays (arrival of Christopher Columbus; Independence Day)*;
  • Venezuelans – Major holidays (Battle of Carabobo; discovery of America; Independence Day; Labor Day; Simon Bolivar's birthday)*;
  • Vietnamese – Major holidays (Anniversary of peace agreement ending Vietnam War; estabishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Tet; Withdrawl of American troops)**;
  • Vlachs – Major holidays (Aromanian National Day; Christmas; Easter)*;
  • Walloons – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
  • Welsh – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Festival of St. Dwyhwon; Good Friday; New Year's Day; St. David's Day; Spring Bank Holiday; Summer Bank Holiday)*;
  • Wolof – Major holidays (Senegalese Independence Day; Tabaski)*;
  • Xhosa – Major holidays (April 27 – day of first black South African national vote; Day of Reconciliation; Heritage Day; June 16th; March 21st; Workers' Day)*;
  • Yao – Major holidays (Danu Festival; Harvest Festival; New Year's Eve; Singing Festival; Spring Festival)**;
  • Yemenis – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Independence Day; Labor Day; National Day; National Unity Day; New Year's Day; Revolution Day)*;
  • Yi – Major holidays (Spring Festival; Torch Festival; Yi New Year Festival)*;
  • Yoruba – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Idul Adha; Idul Fitr; Islamic New Year; Maulid an-Nabi; Nigerian Independence Day; Ramadan)*;
  • Zambians – Major holidays (African Freedom Day; Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Easter weekend; Farmers Day; Heroes Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Unity Day; Youth Day; Zambia Independence Day)*;
  • Zhuang – Major holidays (birthday of the Buffalo God; Late New Year; Lunar New Year's Eve)*;
  • Zimbabweans – Major holidays (Africa Day; Christmas; Defense Forces Day; Easter; Heroes Day; Workers' Day; Zimbabwe Independence Day)*;
  • Zulu – Major holidays (Shaka's Day)*;