Everyone waits for the New Year to come around and with it the 2024 Holidays list. Each year is filled with busy working schedules that leave little or rather no time for family and relaxation. Thus, people around the world try to find out the days that can be spent surrounded by loved ones instead of a mundane routine passage of time.



If you know that on which day a particular holiday falls, then you can plan a long or short getaway with family. The world is an eclectic mix of people belonging to different cultures and religions, so it is bound to happen that people will have different days of observance and holidays.

The team at 123NewYear knows how important these traditional festivals can be for you, so they have painstakingly worked to collect the holidays in a single table, categorizing people of which culture or country celebrate it.

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Holidays can be classified into the following subheadings:

    • National/Public Holiday: These are the ones that the government has declared a holiday and is celebrated across the whole nation.

 

    • Bank Holidays: These are the holidays that are non-working days for bank employees and bank officials.

 

    • Gazette holidays: On these holidays government officials get a holiday but not the employees of private sector.

 

    • Local/ State Holidays: These occasions are of importance for a local area or certain state/states. The nation might not celebrate it, but that specific locality or state/states will observe it as a holiday.

 

    • Observances: These days are not holiday anywhere in the nation but might be important to culture and history of certain people so they observe the day with rituals and other celebrations, but these are not a holiday.

 

Here is the list of holidays for the year 2024 from countries and religions across the globe:

 

Name of the holiday Date Day of the week Where or who celebrate the occasion
New year 2024 1st January Tuesday Around the world
Concluding day of Hogmanay 1st January Tuesday UNITED KINGDOM
Epiphany 6th January Sunday Christian
Orthodox Christmas day 7th January Monday Christian
Stephen Foster Memorial day 13th January Sunday UNITED STATES
Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti 13th January Sunday India
Orthodox New year 14th January Monday Christian
Pongal 15th January Tuesday India
Makar Sankranti 15th January Tuesday India
Lee Jackson day 18th January Friday UNITED STATES
Robert E Lee’s Birthday 19th January Saturday UNITED STATES
Tu Bhisvat 20th January Sunday Jewish
Martin Luther King Day National holiday 21st January Monday UNITED STATES
Idaho Human Rights Day 21st January Monday UNITED STATES
Civil Rights Day 21st January Monday UNITED STATES
Burn’s night 25th January Friday UNITED KINGDOM
Republic day 26th January Saturday India
Kansas day 29th January Tuesday United States
National freedom day 1st February Friday United States
Rosa parks day 4th February Monday UNITED STATES
Chinese new year 5th February Tuesday Chinese
Vasant Panchami 10th February Sunday India
Valentine’s day 14th February Thursday Around the world
Guru Ravidass Jayanti 19th February Tuesday India
Shivaji Jayanti 19th February Tuesday India
Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti 28th February Thursday India
St David’s day 1st March Friday UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM
Texas Independence Day/ Texas Flag Day 2nd March Saturday UNITED STATES
Read Across America Day 2nd March Saturday UNITED STATES
Casimir Pulaski Day 4th March Monday UNITED STATES
Maha Shivratri 4th March Monday India
Town Meeting Day Vermont 5th March Tuesday UNITED STATES
Shrove Tuesday 5th March Tuesday UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM
Mardi Gras 5th March Tuesday UNITED STATES
Ash Wednesday 6th March Wednesday Christian
Evacuation day 18th March Monday UNITED STATES
Purim 20th March Wednesday Jewish
Holi 20th March Wednesday India
HazratAli’s birthday 21st March Thursday Muslim
Maryland day 25th March Monday UNITED STATES
Mothering Sunday 31st March Sunday UNITED KINGDOM
César Chávez Day 31st March Sunday UNITED STATES
Gudi Padwa 6th April Saturday India
National Tartan day 6th April Saturday UNITED STATES
Ram Navami 14th April Sunday India
Palm Sunday 14th April Sunday Christian
Baishakhi 14th April Sunday India
Amedkar jaynti 14th April Sunday India
Father Damien day 15th April Monday UNITED STATES
Tax day 15th April Monday UNITED STATES
Mahavir Jayanti 17th April Wednesday India
Maundy Thursday 18th April Thursday Christian
Good Friday 19th April Friday Around the world
Holy Saturday 20th April Saturday Christian
First day of Passover 19th April Friday Jewish
Easter Sunday 21st April Sunday Christian
St George’s day 23rd April Tuesday UNITED KINGDOM
Shakespeare day 23rd April Tuesday UNITED KINGDOM
Yom HaShoah 1st May Wednesday Jewish
Law day 1st May Wednesday UNITED STATES
Ramadan 5th May Sunday Muslim
National nurse day 6th May Monday UNITED STATES
May day 6th May Monday India
Primary election day Indiana 7th May Tuesday UNITED STATES
Truman day 8th May Wednesday UNITED STATES
Rabindra Jayanti 9th May Thursday India
Mother’s day 12th May Sunday Around the world
Buddha Purnima 12th May Sunday India
Peace Officers Memorial Day 15th May Wednesday United States
Spring bank holiday 27th May Monday UNITED KINGDOM
Laylat al-qadr 31st May Friday Muslim
Eid ul fitr 4th June Tuesday Muslim
D day 6th June Thursday UNITED STATES
Shavuot 8th June Saturday Jewish
Pentecost 9th June Sunday Christian
Whit Monday 10th June Monday Christian
Flag day 14th June Friday UNITED STATES
Trinity day 16th June Sunday Christian
Father’s day 16th June Sunday Around the world
Corpus Christi 20th June Thursday Christian
Independence day 4th July Thursday UNITED STATES
Rath Yatra 4th July Thursday India
Pioneer day 24th July Wednesday UNITED STATES
Friendship day 4th August Sunday Around the world
Bakr-eid 11th August Sunday Muslim
Independence day 15th August Thursday India
Raksha Bandhan 15th August Thursday India
Parsi new year 17th August Saturday Parsi
Janmashtami 24th August Saturday India
Muharram 31st August Saturday Muslim
Labor day 2nd September Monday UNITED STATES
Ganesh Chaturthi 2nd September Monday India
September equinox 23rd September Wednesday UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM
Rosh Hashanah 29th September Sunday Jewish
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti 2nd October Wednesday India
Maha Saptami 5th October Saturday India
Maha Ashtami 6th October Sunday India
Maha Navami 7th October Monday India
Yom Kippur 8th October Tuesday Jewish
Boss’s day 16th October Wednesday UNITED STATES
Karva chauth 17th October Thursday India
Alaska day 18th October Friday UNITED STATES
Shemini Atzeret 20th October Sunday Jewish
Diwali 27th October Sunday India
Halloween 31st October Thursday UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM
All Saints’ day 1st November Friday Christian
Chhath puja 2nd November Saturday India
The prophet’s birthday 9th November Saturday Muslim
Veterans day 11th November Monday UNITED STATES
Guru Nanak Jayanti 12th November Tuesday India
Thanksgiving day 28nd November Thursday UNITED STATES
Cyber Monday 2nd December Monday UNITED STATES
Wright Brother’s day 17th December Tuesday UNITED STATES
Winter solstice 22nd December Sunday UNITED KINGDOM
First day of Hanukkah 22nd December Sunday Jewish
Christmas eve 24th December Tuesday Around the world
Christmas 25th December Wednesday Around the world
Kwanzaa 26th December Wednesday UNITED STATES (Afro-American)
New year’s eve 31st December Tuesday Around the world