Holidays, climate and customs in Algeria Date Holiday January 1 New Year February March Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) February March Islamic New Year February March Ashoura (Festival of Lent) 1st of May Labor Day April May Moloud (Prophet’s Birthday) June 19 Ben Bella’s disempowerment 5th July Independence day November 1 Anniversary of the revolution…
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American Samoa Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
American Samoa: Holidays, Sports Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on…
Andorra Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Andorra: holidays, events, climate Public holidays Religious festivals or holidays Date Holiday January 6 Epiphany … Easter … Ascension of Chri … Penteco 15th of Augu Assumption Day November 1 All Saints Day November 4 St. Charles Day December 8 Immaculate conception 24th of December Christmas eve 25./26. December Christmas Other public holidays Date Holiday…
Angola Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Holidays, climate and national customs in Angola Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent,…
Gabon Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Gabon: holidays, climate Date Holiday January 1 New Year January February Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) March April Easter (Easter Monday) 1st of May Labor Day May 6 Day of the Martyrs May June Pentecost 15th of August Assumption Day August 16 Independence day November 1 All Saints Day November December Eid al-Fitr (end of…
Gambia Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Gambia: Holidays, national customs, climate Public holidays Date Holiday January 1 New Year February 18 Independence day 1st of May Labor Day July 22nd and 23rd Days of revolution 25 December Christmas Source: Countryaah – Gambia Holidays There are also various Islamic holidays that change every year. If a public holiday falls on a Sunday,…
Georgia Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Georgia: holidays, national customs, climate Public holidays There are a number of holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on…
Germany Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Germany: Holidays January 1st January 1st – the first day of the new year – is a public holiday in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and numerous other countries. It should be noted that Samoa is the first country where the New Year began Holy Three Kings The day of the “Three Kings” – also known as…
Ghana Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Ghana: holidays, events, climate Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on…
Greece Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Greece: Holidays and Events Public holidays Date event January 1 New Year (feast of St. Basil according to Byzantine tradition) 6th January Epiphany (crosses are thrown into rivers, lakes and the sea to bless the waters) February March Rose Monday (start of Lent) 25th March Independence day March April Orthodox Easter 1st of May Labor…
Greenland Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Greenland: Holidays, national customs, food Public holidays Date Holiday January 1 New Year 6th January Holy Three Kings March April Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Monday 1st of May Labor Day four weeks after Good Friday Day of prayers six weeks after Easter Assumption Day seven weeks after Easter Pentecost June 21 National Day, Ullotuneq…
Guadeloupe Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Guadeloupe: holidays, events, climate Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on…
Guam Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Guam: Holidays, Events, and a Legend Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which…
Djibouti Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Djibouti: Holidays, national customs, climate Date Holiday January 1 New Year January February El-am-Hejir (Islamic New Year) February March Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) March April May Moloud (Prophet’s Birthday) 1st of May Labor Day June 27 Independence day October November Eid al-Fitr (end of Ramadan) 25 December Christmas Source: Countryaah – Djibouti Holidays The…
Dominica Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Dominica: Holidays, Events, Climate Holidays or holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends…
Dominican Republic Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Dominican Republic: particularities Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on Holy…
East Timor Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
East Timor: Holidays and National Customs Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which…
Easter Island Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Easter Island: holidays, events, climate Regular events Triathlon in Rano Raraku In this competition, brightly painted men paddle through the lake, grab banana leaves from steles and run up the mountain. Then they swim back through the lake. Religious festivals or holidays Date Holiday January 1 New Year March April Easter 1st of May Labor…
Ecuador Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Ecuador: holidays, events, climate Public holidays Date Holiday January 1 New Year February 7th – 8 carnival 25th March Good Friday May 1 Labor Day May 24 Day of the Battle of Pinchincha August 10 independence Day October 09 Guayaquil Independence Day November 02 All Souls December 6 Quito Founding Day 24./25. December Christmas December…
Egypt Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Holidays, climate and national customs in Egypt Public holidays Date Holiday January 7 Coptic Christmas February March Awil sanaa hijreya (Islamic New Year Festival) February March Ashura (fasting festival) April 25 Liberation of Sinai April May Coptic Easter April May Sham el Nessim (Egyptian Spring Festival) 1st of May Labor Day 18th of June Anniversary…
El Salvador Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Holidays and events Month Holiday January Sugar canefestival (in Cojutepeque) Street festival (in Ahuachapán) January 16 Día de los Acuerdos de Paz(= peace celebration on the occasion of the peace treaty between the government and the guerrilla in 1992, which ended the 12-year civil war) April Semana Santa (= Holy Week with parades, nationwide) 1st…
Equatorial Guinea Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Equatorial Guinea: Holidays, Climate There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the time of Easter. Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Lent, which lasts 46 days, begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy…
Eritrea Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Eritrea: holidays, events, climate Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on…
Estonia Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Estonia: Holidays, Climate and Sports Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends…
Ethiopia Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Ethiopia: holidays, climate Date Holiday January 7 Genna (Ethiopian Christmas) January February Timkat (Ethiopian Epiphany) February March Eid al-Adha 2nd March Day of the Battle of Adowa March April Easter April 6 Ethiopian Victory Day 1st of May Labor Day 5th of May May Day (Victory Day) April May Mouloud (Prophet’s Birthday) 28th of May…
Falkland Islands Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Falkland Islands: Sightseeing A selection in Port Stanley Ross Road Ross Road leads the visitor along the most important sights of the city. Christ Church Cathedral The neo-Gothic Christ Church Cathedral is the southernmost cathedral in the world! Monument from the lower jaw bones of blue whales The monument from the lower jaw bones of…
Fiji Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on Holy Saturday, is 46…
Finland Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Finland: holidays, events, national customs Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends…
France Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
France: Holidays and Events Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends on…
French Guiana Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
French Guiana Holidays and events Public holidays Religious festivals or holidays Date Event April 21 Easter Monday May 29 Ascension of Christ June 09 Whit Monday 15th of August Assumption Day 25 December Christmas Other feasts and holidays Date Event January 1 New Year 04-05 March carnival May 1 Labor Day May 15 Victory Day…