2017 Holidays

365 days of a year are interspersed with rigorous working days as well as holidays. All the people all over the world, irrespective of race, caste, creed or professional discrepancies, are generally excited when the holidays come around which are there due to festivals or other purposes.

After a heavy work load everyone wants to spend their holidays with the family, relatives and friends or just doing their own things.

Some of them also plan for a visit for long tours with their beloved ones in various exotic locations or religious places.. People celebrate holidays also to celebrate certain particular traditional festivals also.

Holidays vary from country to country. Holidays vary from religion to religion, from states to states, even from one ethnic group to the other. Yet certain holidays remain the same all over the world, like the holiday given out on the 1^st of January every year.

Various holidays are typically observed in certain countries and then again there are holidays which are followed by a different country. Listing these holidays for 2017 is 123NewYears efforts in keeping a consolidated and a single list of global holidays just right near to you and on you literally, so that you do not need to go back to the calendar again and again while making a vacation plan going.

National/Public holidays- these are the regulated holidays which are made mandated by the government and the laws of different countries depending the history and culture on which country you are staying.

Bank holidays:  banks and financial companies are declared as non- working day on these days.

Gazetted holidays: those who work in government job are entitled to a holiday. But the private sectors are not given one as it is not required as a holiday to their workers.

Local holidays:  these holidays are celebrated for particular countries for their traditional history and culture.

Restricted holidays: these are optional holidays.   These holidays are marked in advance and can only be availed in one single year.

Observances: these happen when people are maintaining ritualistic and established holidays within their own community or religion.

Religious holidays:  these holidays are dependant completely upon religious observances and vary from one particular religion to the other and their dates.

State holidays:  these holidays are important for particular states and not suitable or not observed for those who are in different states.

The list of 2017 is crammed up with all types of holidays. This list basically and mostly covers the largest festivals that are celebrated in almost all parts of the world and have major implications.

List of holidays around the world in 2017 and their dates: