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:
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- National/Public Holiday: These are the ones that the government has declared a holiday and is celebrated across the whole nation.
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- Bank Holidays: These are the holidays that are non-working days for bank employees and bank officials.
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- Gazette holidays: On these holidays government officials get a holiday but not the employees of private sector.
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- 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.
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- 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 |