List of multinational festivals and holidays

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This is an incomplete list of multinational festivals and holidays.

Contents

January

Christianity
Secular
Sikhism
Telugu, Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
Punjab

February

Tibetan Buddhism
Christianity
Paganism
Satanism
Secular

March

Paganism
Christianity
Judaism
Secular

Islam


Secular and multiple religions

Maithil
Hinduism

April

Judaism
Buddhism
Islam
Secular
Christianity
Hinduism
Satanism

May

Judaism
Paganism
Buddhism
Secular
Maithil

June

Hinduism
Islam
Secular

July

Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
Satanism

August

Christianity
Hinduism
Secular

September

Judaism
Secular
Hinduism

October

Judaism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Paganism
Secular

November

Christianity
Secular
Hinduism

December

Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Historical
Humanism
Judaism
Paganism
Persian
Satanism
Secular
Unitarian Universalism
Fictional or parody

Movable date

The following festivals have no fixed date in the Gregorian calendar, and may be aligned with moon cycles or other calendars. [16]

Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean/Mongolian/Tibetan
Persian
Mandaeism
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism
Slavic
Christian
Pastafarian
Religion

Many religions whose holidays were formulated before the worldwide spread of the Gregorian calendar have been assigned to dates either according to their own internal religious calendar, or moon cycles, or otherwise. Even within Christianity, Easter is a movable feast and Christmas is celebrated according to the older Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian by some sects of the religion.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint Lucy's Day</span> Christian feast day

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