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Global Holidays and Observances 2025

This page contains a table of the list of globally observed public holidays and non-holiday observances for the calendar year 2025* (you may also be interested in bank holidays and public holidays, listed by country or listed by date).

The list of global holidays for the calendar year 2025 is:


Date Weekday Holiday or Observance Calendar
Wednesday Western New Year
Monday Epiphany
Tuesday Orthodox Christmas orthodox
Tuesday Orthodox New Year orthodox
Tuesday Tamil Thai Pongal Day solar
Sunday Aquarius (UTC) solar
Monday Lailat al Miraj / The Prophet's Ascension (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Wednesday Chinese New Year / Spring Festival chinese lunar
Wednesday Seol-nal / Korean New Year korean lunar
Wednesday Tet Nguyen Dan / Vietnamese New Year vietnamese lunar
Tuesday Thaipusam hindu solar
Friday Lailat al Bara'a / Night of Emancipation (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Tuesday Pisces (UTC) solar
Wednesday Maha Shivaratree hindu lunar
Friday Dangpa Losar / Bhutanese New Year (Year of the Female Wood Snake) bhutanese lunar
Friday Losar / Tibetan New Year tibetan lunar
Saturday Start of Ramadan (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Saturday Tsagaan Sar / Mongolian New Year (Year of the Blue Female Snake) mongolian lunar
Monday Orthodox Clean Monday orth. easter
Tuesday Orthodox Shrove Tuesday orth. easter
Tuesday Shrove Tuesday / Carnival easter
Wednesday Ash Wednesday easter
Wednesday Orthodox Ash Wednesday orth. easter
Saturday International Women's Day
Friday Holi Phagwa hindu lunar
Friday Purim jewish
Monday Nuzul Quran / Revelation of the Qur'an (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Thursday Aries (UTC) solar
Thursday Vernal Equinox / Spring (UTC) solar
Thursday Lailat al Qadr / Night of Destiny (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Thursday Mi-Carême / Mid-Lent easter
Friday Jumatul Bidah / Friday of Farewell (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Sunday Eid al Fitr / End of Ramadan (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Sunday Ougadi / Ugaadi hindu lunar
Friday Qing Ming Jie / Tomb Sweeping Day chinese solar
Sunday Ram Navami hindu lunar
Thursday Mahavir Jayanti / Janma Kalyanak hindu lunar
Sunday Cambodian New Year solar
Sunday Laotian New Year
Sunday Palm Sunday easter
Sunday Pesach / Jewish Passover jewish
Thursday Burmese New Year
Thursday Maundy Thursday easter
Friday Good Friday easter
Friday Orthodox Good Friday orth. easter
Saturday Orthodox Holy Saturday orth. easter
Saturday Taurus (UTC) solar
Sunday Easter easter
Sunday Orthodox Easter orth. easter
Monday Easter Monday easter
Monday Orthodox Easter Monday orth. easter
Thursday International Labour Day
Friday Great Prayer Day easter
Tuesday Gemini (UTC) solar
Thursday Ascension Day easter
Saturday Duan Wu Jie / Dragon Boat Festival chinese lunar
Monday Shavuot jewish
Thursday Arafat Day (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Friday Eid al Adha / Feast of Sacrifice (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Sunday Whit Sunday / Pentecost easter
Monday Orthodox Pentecost Monday orth. easter
Monday Whit Monday easter
Thursday Corpus Christi easter
Saturday Cancer (UTC) solar
Saturday Summer Solstice / Summer (UTC) solar
Thursday Islamic New Year / Hijra New Year (1447) (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Saturday Ashura (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Tuesday Leo (UTC) solar
Tuesday Magal de Touba (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Friday Assumption
Friday Parsi New Year zoroastrian
Friday Virgo (UTC) solar
Wednesday Ganesh Chaturthi / Vinayaka Chaturthi / Chaturthi Paksha hindu lunar
Thursday Mawlid an Nabi / The Prophet's Birthday (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Friday Onam / Thiruonam hindu solar
Thursday Baptism of the Prophet (Umm al-Qura) muslim
Monday Autumnal Equinox / Fall (UTC) solar
Monday Libra (UTC) solar
Tuesday Rosh Hashanah / Jewish New Year (5786) jewish
Thursday Dassain hindu lunar
Thursday Yom Kippur jewish
Monday Zhong Qu Jie / Mid Autumn Festival chinese lunar
Tuesday Sukkot jewish
Monday Canadian Thanksgiving
Monday Southern Deepavali / Diwali Krisna Chaturdasi hindu lunar
Tuesday Northern Deepavali / Diwali Amavasya hindu lunar
Thursday Scorpio (UTC) solar
Friday Reformation Day
Saturday All Saints' Day
Sunday All Souls' Day
Wednesday Guru Nanak Jayanti hindu lunar
Saturday Sagittarius (UTC) solar
Thursday US Thanksgiving
Sunday First Sunday in Advent
Sunday Second Sunday in Advent
Monday Immaculate Conception
Sunday Third Sunday in Advent
Sunday Capricorn (UTC) solar
Sunday Fourth Sunday in Advent
Sunday Winter Solstice / Winter (UTC) solar
Thursday Western Christmas
Friday Boxing Day / Saint Stephen's Day
Wednesday Western New Year's Eve

* The actual date of most global public holidays differs from one country, region or state, to another. To get the exact date when one of the holidays, above, is observed as an official public holiday in a specific country, region or state, please refer to our listings of national bank holidays and public holidays by country or by date.