| August |
| 22 |
Saturday |
First Day of Ramadan |
| September |
| *18 |
Friday eve |
Rosh Hashanah (begins at sunset) |
| *19 |
Saturday |
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) |
| *20 |
Sunday |
Rosh Hashanah |
| *20 |
Sunday |
Eid al-Fitr (Muslim day of feasting to celebrate end of Ramadan) |
| *27 |
Sunday |
Yom Kippur (begins at sunset) |
| *28 |
Monday |
Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement) |
| October |
| 2 |
Friday |
Sukkot (begins at sunset) |
| ◊3 |
Saturday |
Sukkot (Jewish Festival of Booths, Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving) |
| ◊4 |
Sunday |
Sukkot |
| ◊9 |
Friday |
Shemini Atzeret (begins at sunset) |
| ◊10 |
Saturday |
Shemini Atzeret |
| ◊10 |
Saturday eve |
Simchat Torah (begins at sunset) |
| ◊11 |
Sunday |
Simchat Torah (Jewish Holy Day celebrating the conclusion of reading the Torah) |
| ◊20 |
Tuesday |
Birth of Bab (one of the central figures of the Bahai Faith) |
| November |
| *12 |
Thursday |
Birth of Baha'u'llah (Bahai holy day) |
| 26 |
Thursday |
Thanksgiving Day |
| *27 |
Friday |
Eid al-Adha (Muslim holy day known as the Feast of Sacrifice) |
| December |
| 12 |
Saturday |
Hanukkah (begins at sunset) |
| ◊12-19 |
|
Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights) |
| 25 |
Friday |
Christmas Day |
| ◊26-Jan.1 |
|
Kwanzaa (African American seven-day Spiritual Festival) |
| February |
| 14 |
Sunday |
Chinese New Year |
| 17 |
Wednesday |
Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent, fasting and penitence before Easter) |
| 27 |
Saturday |
Purim (begins at sunset) |
| 28 |
Sunday |
Purim (celebrates the rescue of Jews in Ancient Persia from annihilation) |
| March |
| *20 |
Saturday |
Naw Ruz (begins at sunset) |
| *21 |
Sunday |
Naw Ruz (Bahai New Year) |
| ◊29 |
Monday |
Passover (Pesach - begins at sunset) |
| ◊30-31 |
Tues-Wed |
Passover (Pesach - First days of the Jewish festival recounting deliverance of the Jews from slavery in Egypt) |
| April |
| 2 |
Friday |
Good Friday (observed by Christians the Friday before Easter; commemorates Christ's crucifixion, death, and entombment) |
| 4 |
Sunday |
Easter (Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection) |
| ◊5-6 |
Mon-Tues |
Passover (Pesach - concluding days) |
| ◊10 |
Saturday |
Yom HaSho'ah (begins at sunset) |
| ◊11 |
Sunday |
Yom HaSho'ah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) |
| ◊21-29 |
|
Ridvan Festival (Bahai celebration) |
| May |
| ◊18 |
Tuesday |
Shavuot (begins at sunset) |
| ◊19-20 |
Wed-Thurs |
Shavuot (Jewish Festival of Weeks) |
| ◊22 |
Saturday |
The Declaration of the Bab (begins after sunset) |
| ◊23 |
Sunday |
The Declaration of the Bab (Bahá’i holy day) |
| ◊29 |
Saturday |
Ascension of Bah'u'llah (Bahai commemorated at 3:00 a.m.) |
