Vice President for Ethics and Compliance

2024 Religious, Ethnic & Civil Observances

 

2024
January 1 New Year’s Day (U.S., International)
1 Shogatsu/Gantan-sai (New Years) (Shinto)
6 Día de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) (Christian)
6 Epiphany (Christian)
14 Makar Sankranti (Hindu)
15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
18 Bodhi Day (Buddhist, Hindu)
25 *Tu B’Shevat (Jewish)
February 2 *Imbolc (Candlemas) (Wicca/Neo Pagan)
7 *Lailat al Miraj/Shab-E-Miraj (Islamic)
10 Chinese New Year (Chinese traditional)
11 National Foundation Day (Shinto)
12 National Foundation Day (Public holiday date)
14 Ash Wednesday/Lent Begins (Christian)
19 Presidents’ Day (U.S.)
21 International Mother Language Day 
March 3 Hinamatsuri (Japan)
8 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)
10 - Apr. 9 *Ramadan (Islamic)
17 St. Patrick’s Day (Christian)
21 *Nowruz (Iranian New Year)
21 Ta’anit Esther (Jewish)
24 Palm Sunday (Christian)
24 *Purim (Jewish)
25 Holi (Hindu)
25 *Shushan Purim (Jewish)
25 *Lailat al Bara’a/Shab-E-Barat (Islamic)
29 Good Friday (Christian)
30 Holy Saturday (Christian)
31 Easter (Christian)
April 6 Lailat al Qadr (Islam)
9 *Rosh Chodesh Nisan (Jewish)
10 *Eid al Fitr (Islam)
21 Mahavir Jayanti (Jainism)
22 - 30 Passover/Pesach (Jewish)
May 1 Beltane (Wicca/Neo Pagan)
3 Good Friday (Orthodox Christian)
4 Holy Saturday (Orthodox Christian)
5 Easter/Pascha (Orthodox Christian)
5 Cinco de Mayo (Mexican/Mexican-American)
5 Tango no Sekku/Kodomo No Hi (Shinto)
6 Tango no Sekku/Kodomo No Hi (Public holiday date)
6 *Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (Jewish)
14 *Yom Ha’atzmaut (Jewish)
19 Pentecost (Christian)
23 *Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i)
26 *Lag B’Omer (Jewish)
27 Memorial Day (U.S.)
29 Ascension of the Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)
June 5 *Yom Yerushalayim (Jewish)
7 *Rosh Chodesh Sivan (Jewish)
11 - 13 Shavuot begins (Jewish)
16 *Waqf al Arafa (Islamic)
17 *Eid al-Adha (Islamic)
19 Juneteenth (U.S.)
20 *Litha – Summer Solstice (Wicca /Neo Pagan)
July 4 Independence Day (U.S.)
5 - 7 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz (Jewish)
7 Muharram/Islamic New Year (Islamic)
9 *Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha’i)
17 *Ashura (Islamic)
23 Tzom Tammuz (Jewish)
August 1 Lammas (Pagan/Wiccan)
5 *Rosh Chodesh Av (Jewish)
13 *Tish’a B’Av (Jewish)
19 Raksha Bandhan (Hindu, Jainism)
September 2 Labor Day (U.S.)
2 - 4 Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish)
6 Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu)
16 *Mawlid al-Nabi (Islamic)
17 Mid-Autumn Festival (China)
October 2 - 4 Rosh Hashanah (Jewish)
3 - 12 Devi Navaratri (Hindu)
6 *Tzom Gedaliah (Jewish)
11 Chong Yang (China)
12 *Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement (Jewish)
12 Vijayayadashmi/Dussehra (Hindu)
16 - 23 Sukkot (Feats of Tabernacles) (Jewish)
19 - 20 Karva Chauth (9:16 pm Sat. – 6:46pm Sun.) (Buddhist/Hindu)
23 *Hosha’anah Rabah (Jewish)
24 *Shmini Atzeret (Jewish)
25 *Simchat Torah (Jewish)
31-2 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (Latin America)
November 1 *Samhain (Pagan/Wiccan)
1 All Saint’s Day (Christian)
1 Diwali (Buddhist, Hindu, Sikhism, Jainism)
2 All Soul’s Day (Roman Catholic)
2 *Birth of the Bab (Baha’i)
2 *Birth of the Baha’ullah (Baha’i)
3 Bunka No Hi (Japan)
4 Bunka No Hi (Public Holiday Date)
11 Veteran’s Day (U.S.)
15 Shichigosan Maturi (Shinto)
26 Day of the Covenant (Baha’i)
28 Thanksgiving (U.S.)
December 1 First Sunday of Advent (Christian)
8 Bodhi Day (Buddhist, Hindu)
12 Feast Day – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Hispanic Christian)
16 - 24 Las Posadas (Hispanic Christian)
21 Winter Solstice/Yule (Pagan, International)
25 Christmas (Christian)
25 - Jan. 2 *Chanukah/Hanukkah (Jewish)
26 - Jan. 1 Kwanzaa (African American)
30 - Jan. 1 *Rosh Chodesh Tevet (Jewish)

*Commences at sundown on the preceding day.