Your Traveler's Calendar

This travel calendar is useful in several ways. You can plan to hold a holiday to conincide with a festival which offers lights and parades, events, exhibitions and activities and excietment. Or you could seek to avoid the busy times with booked rooms and higher prices.

A Traveller’s Calendar

January

from Wikipedia.

Jan 1 New Year’s Day. Concert, Vienna, Austria.

USA Tournament of the Roses Parade, Pasadena, California

Orthodox Christmas Jan 7

Jan 5 Evening before Epiphany.

Jan 6 Greek & Russian Orthodox (Christian) Epiphany. (Birth of Jesus.) 

Jan 26 Australia Day. 

Burns Supper Night, Scotland. 

Jan 27 Holocaust memorial day (liberation of Auschwitz in Poland)

Chinese New Year (Moving dates.)

February

Feb 6 New Zealand Waitingi Day

Feb 14 Valentine’s Day (Ireland, Italy and worldwide)

March

March 1st St David’s Day, Wales

March 17th Irish St Patrick’s Day

March 20 French Language Day

April

April 20th Chinese Language Day

April 23rd St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s Birthday.UN English Language Day. 

Spanish Language Day.

April 25th Anzac Day (Australia and New Zealand)

May

May 1st Labor Day

May 5th Cinco de Mayo.

Jun

June 2nd Italian Feast of the Republic. Flypast of tricolor arrows, red/white/green flag colors

JUNE 6th UN Russian Language Day

20/21/22 Summer Solstice (Longest day)

July

Jul 4th American Independence

July 14th Bastille Day, France

July 18 Nelson Mandela Day

August

August 1st Swiss National Day

August 9th Singapore National Day

August 15th Indian Independence Day

September

Sept 21 Belize Independence Day Parade and Carnival

October

Canadian Thanksgiving, 2nd Monday in October.

October 3rd German Unity Day

October 31st Halloween

November

November 1st and 2nd Day of the Dead in Mexico

November 11th Remembrance Day (WWI Armistice, WW2 and all wars)

December

December 18th Arabic Language Day

December 24 Christmas Eve

Dec 25th Christmas Day

Dec 26th Boxing Day in the UK, St Stephen’s Day in Germany

Dec 31st New Year’s Eve. Midnight Mass. 

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_whose_capital_is_not_their_largest_city

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