Holiday

• Spring Festival, May Day, and National Day (People's Republic of China)
• Golden Week (Japan)
• The Majówka, also called the Picnic (Poland)
• Holy Week, sometimes with Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Easter Monday and Good Friday (Ireland)
• A long weekend, when a holiday is next to the weekend (Australia and England).
• In the United States, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day are always on Monday to create a "long weekend" or "3-day weekend".

Other holidays like America's Independence Day and Veterans' Day can come on a weekday or weekend. If the holiday is on a weekend, it is moved to Friday or Monday to create a "3-day weekend." Calendars sometimes mark these holidays twice. For example, in 2006, Veterans' Day in America was on Saturday, November 11. "Veteran's Day (observed)" was also on the calendar; it was Friday, November 10.

• New Year's Day
• Boxing Day (Wren day, St. Stephan's day)
• Kwanzaa
• Christmas Day
• Hanukkah
• Yule

• Merry Christmas (also called Feliz Navidad (Spanish) and Joyeux Noel (French))
• Merry Yuletide
• Happy Hanukkah
• Happy Kwanzaa
• Happy New Year
• Joyous Yule
• Happy Solstice
• Season's Greetings
• Happy Holiday(s)

• New Year's Day (1 January)
• Valentine's Day (14 February)
• International Women's Day (8 March, mostly in Eastern European Countries)
• World Party Day (3 April)
• Earth Day (22 April)
• Labour Day, Worker's Day or May Day (1 May, most countries - United States and Canada celebrate Labour Day on the first Monday of September)
• Mother's Day (second Sunday in May in North America, fourth Sunday in Lent in UK)
• Father's Day (Different countries have different dates)
• Halloween (31 October)
• New Year's Eve (31 December)

• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, either January 15 or the third Monday in January
• Abraham Lincoln's birthday, either February 12 or the second Monday in February
• George Washington's birthday (or Presidents' Day), either February 22 or the third Monday in February
• Memorial Day, last Monday in May
• Independence Day, July 4
• Labor Day, first Monday in September
• Thanksgiving, fourth Thursday in November

• Vesak
• Blessed Rainy Day in Bhutan

In the order of the Wheel of the Year:

• Samhain (Celtic): 31 October-1 November, Celtic New Year, first day of winter
• Winternights (Norse): 29 October-2 November, Norse New Year
• Yule (Norse): 21 December-22 December, winter solstice, Celtic mid-winter
• Imbolc (Celtic): 1 February-2 February, Celtic first day of spring
• Ostara/Easter (Norse): 21 March-22 March, vernal equinox, Celtic mid-spring
• Beltane (Celtic): 30 April-1 May, Celtic first day of summer
• Litha (Norse): 21 June-22 June, summer solstice, Celtic mid-summer
• Lughnasadh (Celtic): 1 August-2 August, Celtic first day of autumn
• Mabon/Harvest End (Norse): 21 September-22 September, autumnal equinox

• Baisakhi
• Daserra
• Diwali
  • Diwali Amvasaya (Laxmi Puja)
  • Diwali (day 2)
  • Bhaubeej
• Ekadasi
• Ganesh Chaturthi
• Gokul Ashtami
• Gudhi Padwa
• Holi
• Mahashivratri
• Makar Sankranti
• Onam
• Pongal
• Rama-Lilas
• Ram Navami
• Vaikunta Ekadasi
• Ugadi

• Advent
• All Saints' Day
• All Souls' Day
• Ascension Day (Jesus enters Heaven)
• Ash Wednesday
• Assumption of Mary (The Virgin Mary enters Heaven)
• Candlemas
• Childermas
• Christmas (Birth of Jesus)
• Corpus Christi(Sacrifice of Jesus)
• Easter (Jesus is born again)
• Easter Triduum
  • Easter Vigil
  • Good Friday (Death of Jesus)
  • Holy Saturday
  • Holy Thursday (The Last Supper)
• Epiphany
• Lent
• Pentecost or Whitsun (The Holy Spirit goes to the followers of Jesus)
• Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras (last day of Carnival)
• Winter Lent
• Watch Night

Catholics also celebrate saint's days.

• Aashurah Muharram
• Eid (based on the lunar calendar)
  • Eid ul-Fitr, Lesser Bairam
    • Eid ul-Adha, Greater Bairam
• Mawlid Al Rasul - Prophet Muhammad's Birthday
• Nisfu Shaaban
• Nuzul Al Qur'an - First announcement of Holy Koran
• Ramadan-Ul-Mubarik
• Isra' Mi'raj - Prophet Muhammad's enters heaven.
• Youm Arafat - Day before Eid ul-Adha

• Naw Ruz (Bahá'í New Year)
• 1st Day of Ridván
• 9th Day of Ridvan
• 12th Day of Ridvan
• Declaration of the Báb
• Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
• Martyrdom of the Báb
• Birth of the Israel
• Birth of Bahá'u'lláh

  Media related to Jewish holidays at Wikimedia Commons

• Shabbat (Sabbath, observed weekly)
• Rosh Hodesh (first day of the Hebrew calendar month)
• Passover
• Lag Ba'omer
• Shavuot (Festival of Weeks; Harvest Festival)
• Tisha B'Av
• Rosh Hashanah (New Year)
• Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
• Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles)
• Hanukkah (also: Chanukah; the Festival of Lights)
• Tu Bishvat (New year of the trees)
• Purim (Deliverance from Evil)