This list of holidays in 2016 is 123NewYear’s attempt to help remedy the instinct of checking the holidays for the next year when the calendar is flipped over and the goodbyes are said to the previous year and the New Year is fully welcomed.
Despite your age, or how mundane you might be, nobody can deny that we are excited and happy when the holidays come around. Whether you are looking for the date of your favorite holiday or simply checking for the date of one that you would like to start celebrating, then here are the dates you need to know.
This can also help you to plan your vacations accordingly since you will be able to find out about any holidays, including bank holidays, which will allow you to plan all of your financial transactions properly, here is your list of the holidays for 2016.
However, before we start on the list of the holidays for the upcoming year, let us explain what types of holidays are typically observed in numerous different countries.
- Legal/National/Public Holidays – These are the holidays that are mandatory by the laws of various countries and these vary depending on what country you are in along with the history and culture.
- Bank Holidays – These days are typically given to financial companies and banks and are non-working days.
- Gazetted Holidays – These holidays are those that are given to the employees of the government, but private companies aren’t required to give these days as holidays to their employees. However, if the employee desires to observe a particular holiday, then the day should be given off to that employee.
- Local Holidays – These holidays are celebrated in particular countries or certain areas of a country and are because of the rich history and cultural diversity that abounds.
- Restricted Holidays – These holidays are optional and a person can choose to take them off in order to celebrate a holiday that is religiously important to the person or the community. These holidays are set in advance and there is often a limit on the number of restricted holidays that can be taken off in one single year.
- Observances – These occur when people are following any of the ritualistic holidays or celebrations.
- Religious Holidays – These holidays are completely dependent upon religion and they vary depending on the religions. They can also vary depending on the country and not all celebrate the same ones and they could also be classified as restricted, National or observances.
- State Holidays – These holidays are important to particular states and aren’t relevant for those who are in different states. During this time, a State wide holiday is typically declared.
This list of holidays in 2016 is a complete list that includes all types of holidays, including major religion based ones and observances for certain regions. This list primarily covers the largest festivals and holidays that are celebrated in most part of the world with emphasis on the following listed countries.
- India
- United Kingdom
- United States
List of major holidays round the world in 2016:
Name of the Holiday | Date | Day of the week | Where or Who Celebrate the occasion/ observance |
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New Year 2016 | 01-Jan-16 | Friday | Around the world |
Concluding day of Hogmanay | 01-Jan-16 | Friday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Guru Govind Singh Jayanti | 05-Jan-16 | Tuesday | India |
Epiphany | 06-Jan-16 | Wednesday | Christian |
Orthodox Christmas Day | 07-Jan-16 | Thursday | Christian |
Stephen Foster Memorial Day | 13-Jan-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Orthodox New Year | 14-Jan-16 | Thursday | Christian |
Pongal, Makar Sankranti | 15-Jan-16 | Friday | India |
Lee Jackson Day | 15-Jan-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Martin Luther King Day National holiday, Robert E Lee’s Birthday, Robert E Lee’s Birthday, Confederate Memorial Day, Idaho Human Rights Day, Civil Rights Day. | 18-Jan-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Tu Bishvat/ Tu B’Shevat (Arbor Day) | 24-Jan-16 | Sunday | Jewish |
Burns’ Night | 25-Jan-16 | Monday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Republic Day | 26-Jan-16 | Tuesday | India |
Kansas Day | 29-Jan-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Nation1al Freedom Day | 01-Feb-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Groundhog Day | 02-Feb-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti | 04-Feb-16 | Friday | India |
Rosa Parks Day | 04-Feb-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
Mardi Gras | 09-Feb-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
Shrove Tuesday | 09-Feb-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM |
Chinese New Year | 11-Feb-16 | Thursday | Chinese |
Vasant Panchami | 12-Feb-16 | Friday | India |
Valentine’s Day | 14-Feb-16 | Sunday | Around the world |
Susan B Anthony’s Birthday | 15-Feb-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Daisy Gatson Bates Day, Presidents’ Day | 15-Feb-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Ash Wednesday | 10-Feb-16 | Wednesday | Christian |
Guru Ravidas Jayanti | 22-Feb-16 | Monday | India |
Guru Ravidas Jayanti | 22-Feb-16 | Monday | India |
Shivaji Jayanti | 26-Feb-16 | Saturday | India |
Town Meeting Day Vermont | 01-Mar-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
St. David’s Day | 01-Mar-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM |
Texas Independence Day/ Texas Flag Day | 02-Mar-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Casimir Pulaski Day, Read Across America Day | 02-Mar-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Mothering Sunday | 06-Mar-16 | Sunday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Maha Shivaratri | 07-Mar-16 | Monday | India |
Evacuation Day | 17-Mar-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
St. Patrick’s Day | 17-Mar-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM |
March equinox | 20-Mar-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Palm Sunday | 20-Mar-16 | Sunday | Christian |
Purim | 23-Mar-16 | Wednesday | Jewish |
Dolyatra/ Chhoti Holi/ Holika Dahan | 23-Mar-16 | Wednesday | India |
Holi | 24-Mar-16 | Thursday | India |
Maryland Day | 25-Mar-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day | 25/26-Mar-16 | Friday/Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Seward’s Day | 28-Mar-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
César Chávez Day | 31-Mar-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
Maundy Thursday | 24-Mar-16 | Thursday | Christian |
Good Friday | 25-Mar-16 | Friday | Around the world |
Holy Saturday | 26-Mar-16 | Saturday | Christian |
Easter Day | 27-Mar-16 | Sunday | Christian |
Easter Monday | 28-Mar-16 | Monday | Christian |
Pascua Florida Day | 01-Apr-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
National Tartan Day | 06-Apr-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Chaitra Sukhladi/ Gudi Padwa/ Ugadi/ Cheti Chand | 08-Apr-16 | Friday | India |
Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday | 13-Apr-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Baisakhi/ Vaisakhi | 13-Apr-16 | Wednesday | India |
Ambedkar Jayanti | 14-Apr-16 | Thursday | India |
Pahela (Poela) Baisakh (Bengal)/ Bahag or Bohaag Bihu (Assam) | 14-Apr-16 | Thursday | India |
Ram Navami | 15-Apr-16 | Friday | India |
Father Damien Day | 15-Apr-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Emancipation Day | 15/16-Apr-16 | Friday/Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Tax Day | 18-Apr-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Patriot’s Day | 18-Apr-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Mahavir Jayanti | 19-Apr-16 | Tuesday | India |
San Jacinto Day | 21-Apr-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
Hazarat Ali’s Birthday | 21-Apr-16 | Thursday | Muslim |
Oklahoma Day | 22-Apr-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
First day of Passover | 22-Apr-16 | Friday | Jewish |
Administrative Professionals Day | 27-Apr-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
St. George’s Day, Shakespeare Day | 23-Apr-16 | Saturday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Last Day of Passover | 30-Apr-16 | Saturday | Jewish |
Yom Ha’atzmaut | 11-May-16 | Wednesday | Jewish |
Confederate Memorial Day | 26-Jan-16 (Texas) | Monday | UNITED STATES |
25-Apr-16 (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi) | |||
26-Apr-16 (Florida) | |||
10-May-16 | |||
(North Carolina, South Carolina) | |||
May Day | 01-May-16 | Sunday | India |
Law Day, Loyalty Day, National Day of Prayer | 01-May-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Early May Bank Holiday | 02-May-16 | Monday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Primary Election Day Indiana | 03-May-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
Rhode Island Independence Day | 04-May-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Isra and Mi’raj | 04-May-16 | Wednesday | Muslim |
Yom HaShoah | 04-May-16 | Wednesday | Jewish |
Cinco de Mayo | 05-May-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
Ascension Day | 05-May-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
National Nurses Day | 06-May-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore | 07-May-16 | Saturday | India |
Truman Day | 08-May-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Mother’s Day | 08-May-16 | Sunday | Around the world |
Peace Officers Memorial Day | 15-May-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Pentecost | 15-May-16 | Sunday | Christian |
National Defense Transportation Day | 20-May-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Armed Forces Day | 21-May-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Buddha Purnima | 21-May-16 | Saturday | India |
Harvey Milk Day, National Maritime Day | 22-May-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Trinity Sunday | 22-May-16 | Sunday | Christian |
Emergency Medical Services for Children Day | 25-May-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
National Missing Children’s Day | 25-May-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Corpus Christi | 26-May-16 | Thursday | Christian |
Lag Ba’Omer | 25-May-16 | Wednesday | Jewish |
Whit Monday | 26-May-16 | Monday | Christian |
Spring Bank Holiday | 30-May-16 | Monday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Memorial Day, Jefferson Davis Birthday | 30-May-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Jefferson Davis Birthday | 30-May-16 (Mississippi) | Monday/Friday/Monday | UNITED STATES |
3-June-16 (Florida) | |||
6-June-16 (Alabama) | |||
D-Day | 06-Jun-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Ramadan begins | 07-Jun-16 | Tuesday | Muslim |
Kamehameha Day | 11-Jun-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Shavuot | 11-Jun-16 | Saturday | Jewish |
Flag Day | 14-Jun-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
Bunker Hill Day | 17-Jun-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Juneteenth | 19-Jun-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Father’s Day | 19-Jun-16 | Sunday | Around the world |
West Virginia Day | 20-Jun-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
June Solstice | 20-Jun-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM |
Jamat Ul-Vida | 01-Jul-16 | Friday | Muslim |
Lailat al-Qadr | 02-Jul-16 | Saturday | Muslim |
Independence Day | 04-Jul-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Ramzan Id/ Eid-ul-Fitar | 05-Jul-16 | Tuesday | Muslim |
Rath Yatra | 06-Jul-16 | Wednesday | India |
Orangemen’s Day | 12-Jul-16 | Tuesday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Pioneer Day | 24-Jul-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Parents’ Day | 24-Jul-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Friendship Day | 07-Aug-16 | Sunday | Around the world |
Victory Day | 08-Aug-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Tisha B’Av | 13-Aug-16 | Saturday | Jewish |
Independence Day | 15-Aug-16 | Monday | India |
Assumption of Mary | 15-Aug-16 | Monday | Christian |
Bennington Battle Day | 16-Aug-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
Parsi New Year | 17-Aug-16 | Wednesday | Parsi |
Raksha Bandhan | 18-Aug-16 | Thursday | India |
National Aviation Day | 19-Aug-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Statehood Day in Hawaii | 19-Aug-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Statehood Day | 19-Aug-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Senior Citizens Day | 21-Aug-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Janmashtami | 25-Aug-16 | Thursday | India |
Lyndon Baines Johnson Day | 27-Aug-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Summer Bank Holiday | 29-Aug-16 | Monday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Labor Day | 05-Sep-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Ganesh Chaturthi | 05-Sep-16 | Monday | India |
Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day | 10-Sep-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Bakri Id/ Eid ul-Adha | 10-Sep-16 | Saturday | Muslim |
National Grandparents Day | 11-Sep-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
National POW/MIA Recognition Day | 16-Sep-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day | 17-Sep-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
September Equinox | 22-Sep-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM |
Gold Star Mother’s Day | 27-Sep-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti | 02-Oct-16 | Friday | India |
Rosh Hashana | 02-Oct-16 | Sunday | Jewish |
Child Health Day | 03-Oct-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Feast of St Francis of Assisi | 04-Oct-16 | Sunday | Christian |
Leif Erikson Day | 09-Oct-16 | Sunday | UNITED STATES |
Maha Saptami | 08-Oct-16 | Saturday | India |
Maha Ashtami / Durgashtami | 09-Oct-16 | Sunday | India |
Maha Navami | 10-Oct-16 | Monday | India |
Columbus Day, Native Americans’ Day, Indigenous People’s Day | 10-Oct-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Yom Kippur | 11-Oct-16 | Tuesday | Jewish |
Dussehra/ Vijaya Dashami | 11-Oct-16 | Tuesday | India |
Ashura | 11-Oct-16 | Tuesday | Muslim |
Muharram | 12-Oct-16 | Wednesday | Muslim |
White Cane Safety Day | 15-Oct-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Boss’s Day | 17-Oct-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
First Day of Sukkot | 16-Oct-16 | Sunday | Jewish |
Alaska Day | 18-Oct-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
Karva Chauth | 19-Oct-16 | Wednesday | India |
Last Day of Sukkot | 23-Oct-16 | Sunday | Jewish |
Shmini Atzeret | 23-Oct-16 | Tuesday | Jewish |
Chhoti Diwali/ Naraka Chaturdasi/ Kaali Puja | 29-Oct-16 | Saturday | India |
Diwali/ Deepavali | 30-Oct-16 | Sunday | India |
Govardhan Puja | 31-Oct-16 | Monday | India |
Halloween | 31-Oct-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM |
All Saints’ Day | 01-Nov-16 | Tuesday | Christian |
Bhai Duj | 01-Nov-16 | Tuesday | India |
All Souls’ Day | 02-Nov-16 | Wednesday | Christian |
Election Day | 08-Nov-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Guy Fawkes Day | 05-Nov-16 | Saturday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Veterans Day | 11-Nov-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
Remembrance Sunday | 13-Nov-16 | Sunday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Guru Nanak Jayanti | 14-Nov-16 | Monday | India |
Chhat Puja | 17-Nov-16 | Tuesday | India |
Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day | 24-Nov-16 | Thursday | India |
Thanksgiving Day | 24-Nov-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES |
American Indian Heritage Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, Black Friday | 25-Nov-16 | Friday | UNITED STATES |
First Sunday of Advent | 27-Nov-16 | Sunday | Christian |
Cyber Monday | 28-Nov-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
St Andrew’s Day | 30-Nov-16 | Wednesday | UNITED KINGDOM |
St Nicholas’ Day | 06-Dec-16 | Tuesday | UNITED STATES |
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day | 07-Dec-16 | Wednesday | UNITED STATES |
Feast of the Immaculate Conception | 08-Dec-16 | Thursday | UNITED STATES/ UNITED KINGDOM |
The Prophet’s Birthday (Milad un-Nabi/ Id-e-Milad) | 12-Dec-16 | Monday | Muslim |
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe | 12-Dec-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES |
Wright Brothers Day, Pan American Aviation Day | 17-Dec-16 | Saturday | UNITED STATES |
Winter Solstice | 21-Dec-16 | Wednesday | UNITED KINGDOM |
Christmas Eve | 24-Dec-16 | Saturday | Around the world |
Christmas | 25-Dec-16 | Sunday | Around the world |
First Day of Hanukkah | 25-Dec-16 | Sunday | Jewish |
Kwanzaa | 26-Dec-16 | Monday | UNITED STATES (Afro-American) |
Boxing Day | 26-Dec-16 | Monday | UNITED KINGDOM |
New Year’s Eve | 31-Dec-16 | Thursday | Around the world |
Last Day of Hanukkah | 01-Jan-17 | Sunday | Jewish |