Festivals & Holidays

November 2024

Nov. 24 – Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahdur
Nov. 28 – Thanksgiving Day (US)
Nov. 29 – Black Friday
Nov. 29 – Native American Heritage Day
Nov. 30 – Darsh Amas (No Moon)
Nov. 30 – Small Business Saturday

December 2024

Dec. 1 – World AIDS Day
Dec. 2 – Cyber Monday
Dec. 3 – Giving Tuesday
Dec. 4 – National Cookie Day
Dec. 5 – World Soil Day
Dec. 6 – St. Nicholas Day
Dec. 7 – Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec. 8 – Bodhi Day
Dec. 10 – Human Rights Day
Dec. 11 – Gita Jayanti / Mokshada Ekadashi
Dec. 14 – Dattatreya Jayanti
Dec. 15 – Margashirsha Purnima (Full Moon)
Dec. 21 – Winter Solstice / Yule
Dec. 22 – Asarah B’Tevet
Dec. 23 – Festivus
Dec. 24 – Christmas Eve
Dec. 25 – Christmas Day
Dec. 25 – Hanukkah Begins
Dec. 26 – Sabarimala Mandala Puja
Dec. 26 – Saphala Ekadashi
Dec. 26 – Kwanzaa Begins
Dec. 30 – Darsh Amas (No Moon)
Dec. 31 – New Year’s Eve

January 2025

Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day
Jan. 1 – Kwanzaa Ends
Jan. 2 – Hanukkah Ends
Jan. 6 – Guru Govind Singh Jayanti
Jan. 6 – Epiphany
Jan. 10 – Tailang Swami Jayanti
Jan. 10 – Asarah B’Tevet
Jan. 12 – Swami Vivekanada Jayanti / National Youth Day
Jan. 13 – Lohri
Jan. 13 – Pausha Purnima (Full Moon)
Jan. 14 – Pongal
Jan. 14 – Makar Sankranti
Jan. 14 – Hararat Ali Jayanti
Jan. 19 – National Popcorn Day
Jan. 20 – Martin Luthur King, Jr Day
Jan. 20 – Inauguration Day
Jan. 23 – Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti
Jan. 24 – International Day of Education
Jan. 26 – Republic Day
Jan. 26 – Lailat al Mi’raj
Jan. 29 – Darsh Amas (New Moon)
Jan. 29 – Lunar New Year (Year of the Snake)
Jan. 30 – Gandhi Punyatithi
Jan. 31 – National Hot Chocolate Day