A to Z Pagan Holidays

Here we have a very long A to Z listing of all the festivals, feast days, holy days, and holidays that I could find.

A

• A-ma Festival – Apr 9
• Advent – dates vary
• Advent of Isis
• Agonalia – Jan 9
• Agonium
• Ambarvalia – May 29
• Anestheria – Mar 4
• Angeronalia
• Aphrodesia
• April Fools Day – Apr 1
• Armilustrium
• Artemis Soteria
• Ascent of the Christ of the Gypsies

B

• Bacchanalia
• Bald Eagle Day – Jun 20
• Bastille Day – Jul 14
• Bawming Day – 3rd Sat in June
• Beltane – Apr 30 – May 1
• Big Winter Moon – dates vary
• Bill of Rights Day – Dec 15
• Blessing of the Boats
• Blessing of the Sea – 1st Sunday in Aug
• Blessing of the Waters
• Blood Moon
• Bodhi Day – Dec 8
• Bona Dea – Spring Festival – May 1
• Bona Dea – Winter – Dec 4
• Bonfire Night
• Bonfires of St John – Jun 24
• Borrowing Days – Mar 29 thru 31
• Boxing Day – Dec 26
• Bringing In The Boar – Dec 30
• Brumalia
• Buck Moon – dates vary
• Burns Night – Jan 25

C

• Canada Day – Jul 1
• Candlemas – Feb 2
• Carista
• Carmentalia
• Celebration of the Tao – May 25
• Celtic Faery Day
• Charming of the Plow
• Chhau Festival
• Childermass – Dec 28
• Chinese Moon Festival
• Chinese New Year
• Ching Ming
• Christmas Day
• Chrysanthemum Day
• Cinco de Mayo
• Cold Food Festival – Apr 4 – 6
• Cold Sophie – May 15
• Compitalia – Jan 12
• Constitution Day – Sep 17
• Corn Moon – Aug full moon
• Crow Moon

D

• Daedala
• Damballa’s Day – Mar 17
• Day of Aganyu
• Day of Artisans – Mar 23
• Day of Bad Omens
• Day of Bau
• Day of Blood – Mar 24
• Day of the Dead – Nov 1st
• Day of Hecate
• Day of Hel – Jul 10
• Day of the Ovens
• Day of Rauni
• Day of Remembrance – May 9, 11, 13
• Day of Selene
• Day of Unn – Jul 9
• Day of the Wren – Dec 26
• Death of Tammuz – Dec 21
• Delphinia
• Diasia
• Disablot
• Disfest
• Distaff Day – Jan 7
• Disting
• Divalia
• Dog Days of Summer – Jul 3 – Aug 11
• Double Ninth Day
• Durdevan – May 6
• Dyngus Day
• Dyzymas Day – Dec 28

E

• Earth Day
• Easter Sunday
• Egg Rolling Day
• Einherjar Day – same as Memorial Day
• Elder Tree Month
• Emancipation Day – Jun 19
• Epiphany – Jan 6
• Eponalia
• Epulum Jovis
• Evergreen Day – Jan 4
• Everyman’s Birthday – dates vary
• Expulsion of the Demons of Bad Luck – Mar 29

F

• Fall Equinox
• Fast of Thoth
• Father’s Day
• Faunalia – Dec 5
• Februalia
• Feast of the Dews – Jun 24
• Feast of Expectant Mothers – Jul 2
• Feast of Fools – Dec 29
• Feast of the Holy Innocents – Dec 28
• Feast of the Lemures – May 9, 11, and 13
• Feast of the Old Roman Goddess Befana – Jan 5
• Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe – Dec 12
• Feast of the Queen of Heaven – May 30
• Feast of St Anne – Sep 20
• Feast of St John – Jun 24
• Feoh
• Feriae Marti
• Feriae Sementivae – Jan 24
• Feralia
• Festival of Bellona – Jun 3
• Festival for the Broken Needles – Feb 8
• Festival of Carna – Jun 1
• Festival of Cats – dates vary
• Festival of Consus – Aug 21 and Dec 15
• Festival of Cerridwen – Jul 3
• Festival of Fata – Jun 24
• Festival of Juno – Jun 1 – 2
• Festival of Kore – Jan 5 or 6
• Festival of Mens – May 8 – see also, Quinquatria
• Festival of Poseidon – Dec 1
• Festival of Salii – Mar 21 – 23
• Festival of Salus – March 30
• Festival of the Holy Marys – May 24
• Festival of the Lares Compitales – Jan 5
• Festival of Mater Matuta – Jun 11
• Festival of Navigation – Mar 5
• Festival of the Tooth – Full moon in Aug and the week before
• First Footing – Dec 31 – Jan 1
• Five Epagomenal Days
• Flag Day – Jun 14
• Flight of the King
• Floralia – Apr 28 – May 1
• Flores de Mayo – May 1 – 31
• Fordicia – Festival of Tellus – Apr 15
• Forgiveness Sunday – Dates vary
• Fornacalia – Feb 5 – Feb 17
• Freyfaxi
• Friday the 13th – Dates vary
• Frigga Blot
• Furinalia
• Furukawa Matsuri
• Furry Dance – May 8 (dates may vary)

G

• Geranium Day – Dates vary
• Gold Rush Day
• Good Friday
• Good Luck Day – Jan 17

H

• Halcyon Days – Dec 14 thru 28
• Halloween – Oct 31
• Haloa – Jan 8 thru 9th
• Hana-Matsuri
• Handsel Monday – Jan 2
• Hanukkah – dates vary
• Hare’s Moon – dates vary
• Harvest Moon
• Hawthorn Moon
• Hazel Moon
• Hekate’s Feast
• Herb Harvesting Day – Jun 29
• Herbal Holy Day
• Hercules’s Day
• Hero’s Day
• Hidrellez – May 6
• Hilaria – Day after the Vernal Equinox
• Hogmanay – Dec 31
• Hola Mohalla – dates vary
• Holly Moon
• Holy Wednesday
• Holy Wells Day – Mar 2
• Honey Moon – dates vary
• Humane Day

I

•  Icemen Days – May 11 – 13
• Ides of March – Mar 15
• Imbolc – Feb 2
• Independence Day – Jul 4
• Insect Hearing Festival – May 28
• International Day of Peace
• Inti Raymi, Peruvian Festival of the Sun – Jun 24

J

• Japanese Flower Festival
• Johnny Appleseed Day – Mar 11

K

• Kakava Spring Festival – May 5-6
• Kalends of January – Jan 1 thru 3
• Kalevala Day – Feb 28
• Kallyntaria – May 19 – 28
• King Frost Day – Feb 4
• King Kamehameha Day – Jun 11
• Kite Flying Day

L

• Labor Day
• Lady Godiva Day – Jul 10
• Lady Luck Day – Apr 5
• Là Fhèill Brìghde – Feb 1
• Lammas – Aug 1
• Larentalia
• Lazarus Saturday
• Lemuria – May 9, 11, and 13
• Liberalia
• Litha  –  June 20 – 22
• Loki’s Day
• Long Nights Moon
• Ludi Cereales
• Ludi Piscatari – Jun 17
• Lucaria
• Lughnasadh – Aug 1
• Lunantishees Day
• Lunar Eclipse – dates vary
• Lupercalia – Feb 15

M

• Mabon
• Maidens Fair on Hen Mountain
• Marduk’s Feast Day – Mar 12
• Martes y Trece – Tuesday the 13th
• Martinmas
• Maslenitsa – Dates vary
• Matronalia – Mar 1
• Mawlid an Nabi – Dates vary
• May Day Eve
• Méan Earraigh – Dates vary
• Meditrinalia
• Megalesia – Apr 4 – Apr 10
• Memorial Day – dates vary
• Michaelmas
• Midsummer – on or near the Summer Solstice
• Midwives Day – Jan 8
• Minervalia
• Moon Day
• Mother March – Mar 1
• Mother Night – Dec 27
• Mother’s Day
• Mothers of Arles – May 24 – 28
• Mothering Sunday – dates vary
• Mourning Moon
• Music Day – Mar 21

N

• Naadam Festival – Jul 11 – 13
• National Tartan Day
• Navigium Isidis – Mar 5
• Nemoralia
• Neptunalia
• Never Again Day – June 19
• New Year’s Eve – Dec 31
• New Year’s Day – Jan 1
• Night of Hekate
• Night of a Teardrop – Jun 16
• Nones of the Wild Fig
• Nonae Caprotinae

O

• Oak Moon
• O-Bon Festival
• Opiconsivia – Aug 25
• Ostara – Vernal Equinox

P

• Palilia
• Palm Sunday – Dates vary
• Pamona’s Day
• Pancake Day
• Parentalis
• Parilia
• Passover Begins
• Patriot Day – Sep 11
• Peppercorn Ceremony
• Pharmakos – Jun 3
• Pioneer Day – Jul 24
• Plough Monday – date varies
• Plowing Day – Mar 26
• Plynteria – May 19 – 28
• Pomona’s Day
• Poplifugia – Jul 5
• Portunalia
• Poseidonia of Aegina – A Midwinter Festival lasting as long as 2 months
• Purification Feast – Mar 13

Q

• Quickening Moon –  date varies
• Quinquatria – Mar 19 – 23

R

• Regifugium
• Ritual for Mother Cotton – dates vary
• Robigalia
• Rosalia – May 10 and 31
• Rousalii
• Rumilia Festival
• Russian Butter Festival – dates vary

S

• Samhain – Nov 1
• Samjinnal – Mar 30
• Sânziene – Jun 24
• Saturnalia
• Sementivae (Second festival of Tellus) – Dec 13
• Septimontium
• Setsubun
• Sham el-Nessim – Apr 17
• Shichi Fukujin – Seven Deities of Luck – Jan 1
• Sign of the Morning Glory
• Sign of the Oak Tree – Mar 21
• Sign of the Sunflower
• Sign of the Vine
• Smell the Breeze Day – Mar 27
• Snake Saturday – Saturday before St Patrick’s Day
• Snake Sunday – Sunday before St Patrick’s Day
• Snow Day – Jan 3
• Solar Eclipse – dates vary
• Songkran
• St George’s Day – Apr 23 or May 6
• St Knut’s Day – Jan 13
• St Lawrence Day – Aug 10
• St Nicholas Day – Dec 6
• St Paul’s Day – Jan 25
• St Stephen’s Day – Dec 26
• St Vitus Day – Jun 15 or 28
• Stonehaven Fireball Ceremony – Dec 31
• Stir Up Sunday – Dates Vary
• Summer Finding
• Summer Solstice –  June 20 – 22

T

• Tako-Age
• Tanabata
• Tea and Tephi Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Thargalia
• Three Kings Day – Jan 6
• Tubilustrium – Mar 23, May 23
• Tomb Sweeping Day – Apr 4 or 5
• Trinity Sunday – dates vary
• Twelfth Night – Jan 5

U

• Up Helly Aa – last Tuesday in January
• Uruz

V

• Valentine’s Day – Feb 14
• Vat Purnima – dates vary
• Veneralia – April 1
• Vernal Equinox
• Vertumnalia
• Veteran’s Day
• Vidar’s Day – Jun 14
• Vidovdan – Jun 28
• Vinalia Rustica
• Visakha Puja – dates vary
• Volcanalia
• Volturnalia

W

• Walpurgisnacht – Apr 30
• Whale Festival
• Wind Moon – dates vary
• Winter Nights
• Winter Solstice
• Wolf Moon – dates vary
• World Environment Day – Jun 5

Y

• Yule

Z

• Zeus’ Day – Jun 12