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 Day Out of Time – Jul 25
• A-ma Festival – Apr 9
• Advent – dates vary
• Advent of Isis – Jan 2
• Agonalia – Jan 9
• Agonium
• All Saints Day – Nov 1
• All Souls Day – Nov 2
• Ambarvalia – May 29
• Andrzejki – Nov 30
• Anestheria – Mar 4
• Angeronalia
• Aphrodesia
• April Fools Day – Apr 1
• Armilustrium
• Artemis Soteria
• Asalha Puja Day – Jul 9
• Ascent of the Christ of the Gypsies
• Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary – Aug 15
• Autumn Equinox – Sep 21, 22 or 23

B

• Baba Yaga’s Feast Day – Nov full moon
• Bacchanalia
• Bald Eagle Day – Jun 20
• Barley Moon – Sep full moon
• Bastille Day – Jul 14
• Bawming Day – 3rd Sat in June
• Beltane – Apr 30 – May 1
• Bendideia of Bendis – Jun 6 or full moon before or closest to the solstice
• Big Winter Moon – Dec full moon
• Bill of Rights Day – Dec 15
• Blessing of the Boats – Aug 12
• Blessing of the Sea – 1st Sunday in Aug
• Blessing of the Waters
• Blood Moon – Oct full moon
• Bodhi Day – 8th day of the 12th lunar month
• Bona Dea – Spring Festival – May 1
• Bona Dea – Winter – Dec 4
• Bonfire Night – various dates
• Bonfires of St John – Jun 24
• Boryeong Mud Festival – dates vary
• Borrowing Days – Mar 29 – 31
• Boxing Day – Dec 26
• Bringing In The Boar – Dec 30
• Brumalia – Nov 24 – Dec 24
• Buck Moon – Jul full moon
• Burns Night – Jan 25

C

• Canada Day – Jul 1
• Candlemas – Feb 2
• Carista
• Carmentalia
• Cat Nights – Aug 17
• Celebration of the Tao – May 25
• Celtic Faery Day
• Charming of the Plow
• Chhau Festival
• Childermass – Dec 28
• Chinese Moon Festival – full moon nearest the autumnal equinox
• Chinese New Year
• Ching Ming
• Christ the King – last Sunday in Oct (alternative dates Nov 20 thru Nov 26)
• Christmas Day – Dec 25
• Chrysanthemum Day – Sep 9
• Cinco de Mayo – May 5
• Cold Food Festival – Apr 4 – 6
• Cold Sophie – May 15
• Compitalia – Jan 12
• Constitution Day – Sep 17
• Corn Moon – Oct full moon
• Creation Day – 1st Sunday in March
• Crossroads Day – Oct 22
• Crow Moon – March full moon

D

• Daedala – Mar 10 (approx)
• Dakini Day – 25th day of each lunar month
• Damballa’s Day – Mar 17
• Dasara – Sep 30
• Day of Aganyu
• Day of Artisans – Mar 23
• Day of Bad Omens – Jul 18, Oct 6
• Day of Bau
• Day of Blood – Mar 24
• Day of the Covenant – dates vary
• Day of the Dead – Nov 1st
• Day of Hecate – Aug 13
• Day of Hel – Jul 10
• Day of the Ovens
• Day of Rauni – Jul 15
• 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
• Depina Hekates – Nov 16
• Diasia
• Disablot
• Disfest
• Distaff Day – Jan 7
• Disting
• Divalia
• Dog Days of Summer – Jul 3 – Aug 11
• Dōngzhì Festival – Winter Solstice
• Double Ninth Day – Sept 9
• Durdevan – May 6
• Dyngus Day – Easter Monday
• Dyzymas Day – Dec 28

E

• Earth Day – Apr 21 or Vernal Equinox
• Easter Sunday – dates vary
• Egg Rolling Day
• Einherjar Day – same as Memorial Day
• Elder Tree Month
• Emancipation Day – Jun 19
• Epiphany – Jan 6
• Eponalia
• Epulum Jovis
• Eve of St Agnes – Jan 22
• Evergreen Day – Jan 4
• Everyman’s Birthday – 7th day of the Chinese New Year
• Expulsion of the Demons of Bad Luck – Mar 29

F

• Fall Equinox – Sept 21, 22, or 23
• Fast of Thoth – Sep 19
• Fast in Honor of Holy Mother of Jesus – Aug 1
• Father’s Day – 3rd Sunday in Jun
• Faunalia – Dec 5
• Februalia
• Feast of Baba Yaga – Full moon of Nov
• Feast of Baron Samedi – Nov 2
• Feast of the Dews – Jun 24
• Feast of the Divine Life – Sep 21
• Feast of the Einherjar – Weekend nearest Nov 1
• Feast of Expectant Mothers – Jul 2
• Feast of Fools – Dec 29
• Feast of the Holy Innocents – Dec 28
• Feast day of Illmatar – Aug 26
• Feast of Kuan Yin – Jul 19
• Feast of the Lemures – May 9, 11, and 13
• Feast of Mary Magdalene – Jul 22
• Feast of the Old Roman Goddess Befana – Jan 5
• Feast of Our Lady of Carmel – Jul 16
• Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe – Dec 12
• Feast of the Queen of Heaven – May 30
• Feast of St Agnes – Jan 22
• Feast of St Anne – Jul 26
• Feast of St John – Jun 24
• Feast of Ullr – Nov 27
• Feriae Marti
• Feriae Sementivae – Jan 24
• Feralia
• Festival for The Pales – Apr 21, Jul 7
• Festival of Amaterasu – Jul 17
• 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 Feronia – Nov 13 or 15
• Festival of the Handmaidens – Jul 7
• Festival of Holy Marys – May 24
• Festival of Juno – Jun 1 – 2
• Festival of Knut the Reaper – Jul 10
• Festival of Kore – Jan 5 or 6
• Festival of Lares Compitales – Jan 5
• Festival of Lugh – Aug 1
• Festival of Mater Matuta – Jun 11
• Festival of Mens – May 8 – see also, Quinquatria
• Festival of Navigation – Mar 5
• Festival of Odin – Nov 12
• Festival of Poseidon – Dec 1
• Festival of Salii – Mar 21 – 23
• Festival of Salus – Mar 30
• Festival of Sol Indigis – Aug 9
• Festival of Thoth – Aug 6
• Festival of the Tooth – Full moon in Aug and the week before
• Festival of Torches – Aug 15
• First Footing – Dec 31 – Jan 1
• Five Epagomenal Days – Jul 27 – 31
• 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 – Aug 23
• Friday the 13th – dates vary
• Frigga Blot
• Furinalia – Jul 25
• Furukawa Matsuri
• Furry Dance – May 8 (dates may vary)

G

• Ganesh Chaturthi – dates vary
• Gantan-sai – Jan 1
• Genna – Jan 7
• Geranium Day – dates vary
• Ghede – N0v 2
• Ghost Festival – dates vary
• Ghost Month – dates vary
• Gold Rush Day
• Good Friday – dates vary
• Good Luck Day – Jan 17
• Guy Fawkes Day – Nov 5

H

• Halcyon Days – Dec 14 – 28
• Halloween – Oct 31
• Haloa – Jan 8 – 9th
• Hana-Matsuri – Apr 8
• Handsel Monday – first Monday in January
• Hanukkah – dates vary
• Hare’s Moon – May full moon
• Harvest Moon – Full moon nearest Autumn Equinox
• Hawthorn Moon
• Hazel Moon
• Hekate Supper – when the first sliver of the new moon is visible
• Hemis Festival – dates vary
• Herb Harvesting Day – Jun 29
• Herbal Holy Day – Aug 15
• 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 – Jun full moon
• Honor Your Guardian Angel Day – Oct 2
• Honoring The Thunder God – Jul 29
• Humane Day – 1st Sunday in May
• Hunter’s Moon – Oct full moon

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 – Sep 21
• Inti Raymi, Peruvian Festival of the Sun – Jun 24
• Iroquois Mid-Winter Ceremony –  When the first new moon arrives while both the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor constellations are visible

J

• Japanese Flower Festival
• Johnny Appleseed Day – Mar 11

K

• Kakava Spring Festival – May 5 – 6
• Kalends of January – Jan 1 – 3
• Kalevala Day – Feb 28
• Kallyntaria – May 19 – 28
• King Frost Day – Feb 4
• King Kamehameha Day – Jun 11
• Kite Flying Day
• Krishna Janmashtami – Aug 15

L

• Labor Day – First Monday in Sept
• Lady Godiva Day – Jul 10
• Lady Luck Day – Apr 5
• Là Fhèill Brìghde – Feb 1
• La Mas Ubhal – Nov 1
• Lammas – Aug 1
• Larentalia
• Lazarus Saturday
• Lemuria – May 9, 11, and 13
• Liberalia
• Li Chun – Eve of Chinese New Year:
• Litha  –  June 20 – 22
• Loki’s Day
• Long Nights Moon – dates vary
• Lucaria – Jul 19
• Ludi Cereales
• Ludi Piscatari – Jun 17
• Ludi Plebeii – Nov 4 – 17
• Ludi Romani – Sep 4
• Lughnasadh – Aug 1
• Lunantishees Day – Nov 11
• Lunar Eclipse – dates vary
• Lupercalia – Feb 15

M

• Mabon – Sep 21, 22, or 23
• Mahayana New Year – Starts on the first full moon day in January
• Maidens Fair on Hen Mountain – Jul 17
• Marduk’s Feast Day – Mar 12
• Martes y Trece – Tuesday the 13th
• Martinmas – Nov 11
• 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 – last Monday in May
• Mice Wedding Day – Oct 27 or Nov 8
• Michaelmas – Sep 29
• Midsummer – on or near the Summer Solstice
• Midwives Day – Jan 8
• Minervalia
• Moon Day – Jul 20
• Mother March – Mar 1
• Mother Night – Dec 27
• Mother’s Day – 2nd Sunday in May
• Mothers of Arles – May 24 – 28
• Mothering Sunday – dates vary
• Mourning Moon – Nov full moon
• Mundus – Aug 24
• Music Day – Mar 21

N

• Naadam Festival – Jul 11 – 13
• National Tartan Day – Apr 6
• Nativity of Blessed Mary – Sep 21
• Nativity Fast – Nov 15 thru Dec 24
• Navaratri – Sep 21 – 29
• Navigium Isidis – Mar 5
• Nemesia – Aug 23
• Nemoralia – Aug 13
• Neptunalia – Jul 23
• Never Again Day – June 19
• New Moon – dates vary
• New Year’s Eve – Dec 31
• New Year’s Day – Jan 1
• Night of Hekate Suppers – Last night of the waning moon
• Night of the Crossroads – Nov 16
• Night of a Teardrop – Jun 16
• Noah Webster’s Birthday – Oct 16
• Nones of the Wild Fig
• Nonae Caprotinae
• Nunavut Day – Jul 9

O

• Oak Moon
• O-Bon Festival – Aug 13 – 15, or Jul 13 – 15
• Opalia – Aug 10
• Opiconsivia – Aug 25
• Ostara – Vernal Equinox

P

• Palm Sunday – dates vary
• Pamona’s Day
• Pancake Day
• Parentalis
• Parilia – Apr 21, Jul 7
• Passover Begins
• Patriot Day – Sep 11
• Peppercorn Ceremony
• Pharmakos – Jun 3
• Pioneer Day – Jul 24
• Plant A Turnip Seed Today – Jul 25
• Plough Monday – First Monday after Jan 6
• Plowing Day – Mar 26
• Plynteria – May 19 – 28
• Pomona’s Day – Aug 13 or Nov 1
• Popcorn Day – Jan 19
• Poplifugia – Jul 5
• Portunalia – Aug 17
• Poseidonia of Aegina – A Midwinter Festival lasting as long as 2 months
• Purification Feast – Mar 13

Q

• Quickening Moon –  Feb full moon
• Quinquatria – Mar 19 – 23

R

• Raksha Bandhan – Aug 7
• Raud the Strong’s Day – Jan 9
• Regifugium
• Ritual for Mother Cotton – dates vary
• Robigalia
• Rose of the World Day – Jul 3
• Rosalia – May 10 and 31
• Rosh Hashanah – Sep 21 – 22
• Rousalii
• Rumilia Festival – Jul 7
• Rural Dionysia – Nov 28
• 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 Oak Tree – Mar 21
• 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
• Snow Moon – Nov full moon
• Solar Eclipse – dates vary
• Songkran
• St Andrew’s Day – Nov 30
• St Anne’s Eve – Jul 23
• St Benedict Day – Jul 11
• St Dustan’s Day – May 19
• St George’s Day – Apr 23 or May 6
• St James the Great Day – Jul 25
• 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. Swithin’s Day – Jul 15
• St Vitus Day – Jun 15 or 28
• St Vladimir the Great Day – Jul 15
• Stikklestad Day – Jul 29
• Stonehaven Fireball Ceremony – Dec 31
• Storm Moon  – Mar full Moon
• Stir Up Sunday – last Sunday before Advent
• Summer Finding
• Summer Solstice –  June 20 – 22

T

• Tako-Age
• Tanabata – Jul 7
• Tea and Tephi Day
• Thanksgiving Day – last Thurs in Nov
• Thargalia
• Thorrablot (Þorrablót) – the Friday after Jan 19
• Three Kings Day – Jan 6
• Timkat – Jan 19
• Tish’a B’av – Aug 1
• Tubilustrium – Mar 23, May 23
• Tomb Sweeping Day – Apr 4 or 5
• Transfiguration Sunday –  the final Sunday following Epiphany, and before Lent
• Trinity Sunday – dates vary
• Tu B’shvat – New Year for Trees – 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat
• 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 – Aug 13
• Veteran’s Day – Nov 11
• Vidar’s Day – Jun 14
• Vidovdan – Jun 28
• Vinalia Rustica – Aug 19
• Visakha Puja – dates vary
• Volcanalia – Aug 23
• Volturnalia – Aug 27

W

• Walpurgisnacht – Apr 30
• Waqf al Arafa – Aug 31
• Whale Festival
• Wind Moon – Apr full moon
• Winter Finding – Sept 21
• Winter Nights
• Winter Solstice – Dec 21 or 22
• Wolf Moon – Jan Full Moon
• Women’s Equality Day – Aug 26
• World Environment Day – Jun 5
• World Religions Day – 3rd Sunday in Jan

Y

• Yom Kippur – Sep 30
• Yule

Z

• Zeus’ Day – Jun 12