Fast of  17th of Tammuz

• July 2 - July 3, 2026
• The fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, known as Shivah Asar B'Tammuz, is the start of a three-week mourning period for the destruction of Jerusalem and the two Holy Temples.
• Jewish

Martyrdom of the Báb

• July 9 - July 10, 2026
• Marks execution in 1850
• Bahá'í

Fast of 9th of Av

• July 22, 2026 - July 23, 2026
• Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, is the culmination of the Three Weeks, a period of time during which we mark the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
• Jewish

Lughnasadh

• August 1, 2026
• This Pagan and Wiccan festival designates the start of the harvest season.
• Wicca/Pagan

Arbaeen

• August 5, 2026
• The day marking the end of the 40-day mourning period after the Day of Ashura for Muslims.
• Islamic

Paryushana Parva

• August 21 - August 28, 2026
• A time of intensive study, reflection, and purification. It ends with a final day of confession and asking for forgiveness. Lasts 8-10 days.
• Jain

Mawlid an-Nabi

• Appx. August 25 - August 26, 2026
• This holiday is the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.
• Islamic

Krishna Janmashtami

• September 4, 2026
• Celebration of the birthday of Lord Krishna, the eighth Divine Incarnation
• Hindu

Rosh Hashanah*

• September 11 - September 13, 2026
• Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment and coronation of G-d as king.
• Jewish

Ganesh Chaturthi

• September 14, 2026
• Festival marking the birth of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha, the god of prosperity and wisdom.
• Hindu

Yom Kippur*

• September 20 - September 21, 2026
• Holiest day of the year, the Day of Atonement
• Jewish

Mabon

• September 23, 2026
• Pagan and Wiccan religions use to mark the autumnal equinox.
• Wicca/Pagan

Sukkot*

• September 25 - October 2, 2026
• The seven days of Sukkot is the holiday in which there is dwelling in covered huts, commemorating G‑d's sheltering of the ancestors as they traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land.
• Jewish

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah*

• October 2 - October 4, 2026
• Celebrates Shemini Atzeret, the first day, and the second day, Simchat Torah. Simchat Torah markes the compeltion and beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle.
• Jewish

Bodhidharma Day (Daruma-ki)

• October 5, 2026
• Memorial celebration of Bodhidharma's arrival in China (Japan). Bodhidharma was the founder of the Zen tradition in China.
• Buddhist

Vijayadashami (Dussehra)

• October 20, 2026
• The festival celebrates Hindu god Ram's vanquishing of the 10-headed demon king Ravan, and symbolises the triumph of good over evil.
• Hindu

Samhain*

• October 31 - November 1, 2026
• A Pagan and Wiccan festival marking the end of the harvest season.
• Wicca/Pagan

All Saints Day

• November 1, 2026
• The day on which the Christian church celebrates the saints, known and unknown.
• Christian

Day of the Dead

• November 1, 2026
• The Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos), is a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration.
• Christian/Latinx

Deepavali/Diwali

• November 8, 2026
• A festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness.
• Jain/Sikh/Hindu

Birth of the Bab*

• November 10, 2026
• The Báb (meaning "Gate" in Arabic) is considered to have paved the way for the incarnation of Bahá'u'lláh. The Báb's mission was to awaken the people to the fact that a new period in human history had begun. He called for spiritual and moral reformation
• Bahá'í

Birth of Bahá'u'lláh

• November 11, 2026
• This holiday celebrates the birthday of Bahá'u'lláh, one of the Baha'I faith's most important figures. For Bahá'ís, the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh is a Holy Day celebrating the rebirth of the world through the love of God, just as Christmas is for Christians.
• Bahá'í

Gurunanak Jayanti

• November 24, 2026
• Celebrates the birth of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak
• Sikh

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• January 1, 2027
• This holiday is a celebration of Mary's motherhood of Jesus. It is a reminder of the role she played in the salvation of humankind. 
• Christian (Catholic)

Gantan-sai

• January 1, 2027
• Gantan-sai is the annual New Year festival of the Shinto religion. General Practices: Practitioners pray for inner renewal, prosperity, and health, as well as visiting shrines and visiting friends and family.
• Shinto

Laylat al Miraj*#

• January 6, 2027
• This Muslim holy day celebrates Muhammad's pilgrimage from Mecca to Jerusalem. When Muhammad arrived, he ascended into Heaven.
• Islamic

Feast of the Epiphany

• January 6, 2027
• On this feast day, Christians celebrate the first manifestation of Jesus to the Gentiles. It always falls 12 days after Christmas to mark when the three kings arrived in Bethlehem.
• Christian

Eastern Orthodox
Christmas/Feast of the Nativity

• January 7, 2027
• Eastern Orthodox Christian

Sankranti

• January 15, 2027
• Hindu festival dedicated to the god of the sun, Surya
• Hindu

Tu BiShvat

• January 22, 2027
• This day marks the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
• Jewish

Imbolc

• February 1, 2027
• This Pagan and Wiccan festival serves as the halfway point between the winter solstice and spring equinox, celebrating fire, light, and the return of life.
• Wicca/Pagan

Asian (Chinese) Lunar New Year

• February 6, 2027
• This festival marks the start of the new year in the lunar calendar used in East Asia, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
• Confucian/Taoist /Buddhist

Ramadan (29-30 days)*#

Februray 7 - March 8, 2027

Muslims commemorate the revelation of the Qur'an, and fast from food and drink during the sunlit hours as a means of drawing closer to God and cultivating self-control, gratitude, and compassion for those less fortunate.

Islamic

Ash Wednesday

• February 10, 2027
• Ash Wednesday: a day of prayer and fasting that begins the Christian season of Lent
• Christian

Lenten Season

• February 10 - March 25, 2027
• Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter.
• Christian (Protestant and Catholic)

Nineteen Day Fast*#

• March 1 - March 20, 2027
• The month of fasting, during which Bahá'ís from the age of 15 abstain from food and drink between sunrise and sunset. 
• Bahá'í

Eid al Fitr*#

• March 10, 2027
• This holiday commemorates the completion of Ramadan and lasts for three days during which Muslims celebrate with special prayers, sweets, presents for children, and community festivities.
• Islamic

Eastern Orthodox Great Lent

• March 15 - April 24, 2027
• Great Lent (or the Great Fast) is the Orthodox Lenten season. The church's longest, strictest and most important fasting time. It runs from Clean Monday, seven weeks before Pascha, through Lazarus Saturday, the day before Palm Sunday.
• Eastern Orthodox Christian

Norooz (New Year)

• March 20, 2027
• A traditional festival that marks the beginning of spring, Nowruz is a time to celebrate the rebirth of nature and wash away the past. 
• Persian/Zoroastrian/Muslim Cultural

Ostara

• March 20, 2027
• This Wiccan holiday is one of their eight Sabbats. It celebrates the spring equinox.
• Wicca/Pagan

Naw Rúz

• March 20, 2027 - March 21, 2027
• This is the Baha'i New Year, a traditional celebration in Iran adopted as a holy day associated with Baha'i. It is a celebration of spring and new life.
  General Practices: Festive music dancing, prayers, meetings, meals.
• Bahá'í

Palm Sunday

• March 21, 2027
• Palm Sunday is the Sunday preceding Easter when Christians commemorate Jesus's triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem to crowds cheering and waving palms of victory before him.
• Christian

Purim*

• March 22 - March 23, 2027
• This festival commemorates the Divinely orchestrated salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from Haman's plot to destroy the Jewish people in a single day.
• Jewish

Holi

• March 22, 2027
• Hindu holiday that celebrates the winter harvest and onset of spring.
• Hindu

Maundy Thursday

• March 25, 2027
• Maundy (Holy) Thursday is the Thursday of Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is the day on which Jesus is said to have shared a final meal with his disciples before he was betrayed to the Roman authorities. It is also called Maundy Thursday, from the new commandment (mandatum) Jesus gave his disciples on that day: to love one another as he had loved them.
• Christian

Good Friday

• March 26, 2027
• Good Friday—the Friday before Easter—is the day observed by the Christian church as the day of Christ's crucifixion. 
• Christian

Easter

• March 28, 2027
• Easter is the festive holy day of the Christian tradition on which the church celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and victory of life over death.
• Christian

Ugadi

• April 7, 2027
• Celebrates the start of the Hindu New Year.
• Hindu

Sharad Navaratri

• April 7 - April 15, 2027
• A period of nine days celebrating the Divine Feminine.
• Hindu

Vaisakhi

• April 14, 2027
• This ancient festival celebrates both the Solar New Year and springtime harvest.
• Hindu/Sikh/Buddhist

Rama Navami

• April 15, 2027
• Celebration of the Appearance day of great Lord Ram
• Hindu

Mahavir Jayanti

• April 19, 2027
• Celebrates the birth of Tirthankara Mahavira
• Jain

Ridván

• April 20, 2027
• First Day of Ridván (meaning "Paradise" in Arabic) — the most important of the Bahá'í Holy Days. It is the day on which Bahá'u'lláh declared His mission as a Messenger of God in the Garden of Ridván.
• Bahá'í

Passover [Pesach-8 days]*

• April 21 - April 29, 2027
• Commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.
• Jewish

Ninth Day of Ridván

• April 29, 2027
• The day on which Bahá'u'lláh's family joined Him in the Garden of Ridván.
• Bahá'í

Eastern Orthodox
Holy Friday/Good Friday

• April 30, 2027
• Friday before Easter, commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; among some sects of Christianity and in many countries marks a day of fasting.
• Eastern Orthodox Christian

Beltane

• May 1, 2027
• A festival honoring life in the Pagan and Wiccan religions. It represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer
• Wicca/Pagan

Twelth Day of Ridván

• May 2, 2027
• The day on which Bahá'u'lláh and His family left the garden to travel to Constantinople.
• Bahá'í

Pascha/Easter

• May 2, 2027
• Pascha, or Orthodox Easter, celebrates Jesus Christ's resurrection and is the year's most important holy day. It usually falls one to five weeks after Western Christian Easter, which follows the Gregorian calendar. 
• Eastern Orthodox Christian

Yom HaShoah

• May 3 - May 4, 2027
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish

Feast of Pentecost

• May 16, 2027
• Pentecost was the "fiftieth" day after Easter and is celebrated in the Christian church as the day on which the Holy Spirit descended upon the followers of Christ gathered in Jerusalem, inspiring them to form a new community of preaching, praise, and practice.
• Christian

Eid al Adha*#

• May 16 - May 17, 2027
• The holiday commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, who was miraculously replaced by a lamb. 
• Islamic

Vesak

• May 20, 2027
• Buddha's birth (Japanese tradition)
• Buddhist

Declaration of the Báb*

• May 23, 2027
• The anniversary of the Báb's announcement of His mission in 1844.
• Bahá'í

Lag B'Omer

• May 24, 2027
• Celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar.
• Jewish

Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh

• May 28 - May 29, 2027
• Marks the passing of Bahá'u'lláh in 1892.
• Bahá'í

Martyrdom of the Báb

• July 9 - July 10, 2027
• Marks execution in 1850
• Bahá'í

Fast of  17th of Tammuz

• July 22 - July 23, 2027
• The fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, known as Shivah Asar B'Tammuz, is the start of a three-week mourning period for the destruction of Jerusalem and the two Holy Temples.
• Jewish

July 25, 2027

The day marking the end of the 40-day mourning period after the Day of Ashura for Muslims.

Islamic

Ganesh Chaturthi

• September 4, 2027
• Festival marking the birth of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha, the god of prosperity and wisdom.
• Hindu

Mabon

• September 22, 2027
• Pagan and Wiccan religions use to mark the autumnal equinox.
• Wicca/Pagan

Rosh Hashanah*

• October 1 - October 3, 2027
• Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment and coronation of G-d as king.
• Jewish

Bodhidharma Day (Daruma-ki)

• October 5, 2027
• Memorial celebration of Bodhidharma's arrival in China (Japan). Bodhidharma was the founder of the Zen tradition in China.
• Buddhist

Vijayadashami (Dussehra)

• October 9, 2027
• The festival celebrates Hindu god Ram's vanquishing of the 10-headed demon king Ravan, and symbolises the triumph of good over evil.
• Hindu

Yom Kippur*

• October 10 - October 11, 2027
• Holiest day of the year, the Day of Atonement
• Jewish

Sukkot*

• October 15 - October 22 2027
• The seven days of Sukkot is the holiday in which there is dwelling in covered huts, commemorating G‑d's sheltering of the ancestors as they traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land.
• Jewish

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah*

• October 22 - October 24, 2027
• Celebrates Shemini Atzeret, the first day, and the second day, Simchat Torah. Simchat Torah markes the compeltion and beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle.
• Jewish

Birth of the Bab*

• October 22, 2027
• The Báb (meaning "Gate" in Arabic) is considered to have paved the way for the incarnation of Bahá'u'lláh. The Báb's mission was to awaken the people to the fact that a new period in human history had begun. He called for spiritual and moral reformation
• Bahá'í

Birth of Bahá'u'lláh

• October 22, 2027
• This holiday celebrates the birthday of Bahá'u'lláh, one of the Baha'I faith's most important figures. For Bahá'ís, the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh is a Holy Day celebrating the rebirth of the world through the love of God, just as Christmas is for Christians.
• Bahá'í

Deepavali/Diwali

• October 29, 2027
• A festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness.
• Jain/Sikh/Hindu

Samhain*

• October 31 - November 1, 2027
• A Pagan and Wiccan festival marking the end of the harvest season.
• Wicca/Pagan

All Saints Day

• November 1, 2027
• The day on which the Christian church celebrates the saints, known and unknown.
• Christian

Day of the Dead

• November 1, 2027
• The Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos), is a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration.
• Christian/Latinx

Gurunanak Jayanti

• November 14, 2027
• Celebrates the birth of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak
• Sikh

Advent

• December 1, 2027 - December 24, 2027
• Advent is the Christian season of preparation for Christmas, the four weeks before Christmas in the Western churches; the first Sunday in Advent is the beginning of the Christian liturgical year.
• Christian

Bodhi Day (Rohatsu)

• December 8, 2027
• Celebrating the Buddha's awakening
• Buddhist

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

• December 8, 2027
• The Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The "immaculate" is not a reference to how she was conceived by her parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne. It acknowledges that God intervened and allowed her to be conceived without the stain of original sin.
• Christian (Catholic)

Our Lady of Guadalupe

• December 12, 2027
• Celebration of when In December 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared as an Aztec princess to Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac, outside a small village near Mexico City.
• Christian/LatinX

Yule/Winter Solstice

• December 21, 2027
• A Pagan and Wiccan holiday that celebrates the winter solstice.
• Wicca

Hanukkah [8-days]*

• December 24, 2027 - January 1, 2028
• Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after a group of Jewish warriors defeated the occupying mighty Greek armies.
• Jewish

Christmas

• December 25, 2027
• Christmas is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
• Christian

Kwanzaa

• December 26, 2027 - January 1, 2028
• Created in 1966 by Maulana Ron Karenga, Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday that celebrates history, values, family, community and culture.
• African-American

Feast of the Holy Family

• December 28, 2027
• Feast of the Holy Family, Roman Catholic religious festival falling on the first Sunday after Christmas. Although major feast days dedicated to each member of the Holy Family—Jesus, Mary, and Joseph—also exist, the Feast of the Holy Family commemorates their life together, and the celebration focuses on religious family life.
• Christian (Catholic)