Major Religious Holidays
- January 6 – Christmas in most Armenian Apostolic Churches of Christianity
- January 7 – Christmas in the Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church of Christianity
- January 14 – Pongal
- January 26 – Lunar New Year
- February 23 – Shivaratri
- February 25 – Ash Wednesday
- March 10 – Mawlid
- March 11 – Holi
- April 3 – Rama Navami
- April 8 – Passover begins
- April 12 – Easter in Western Christianity
- April 14 – Vaisakhi in Sikhism
- April 19 – Easter for many Eastern Christians
- May 2 – Buddha's Birthday
- May 8 – Buddha Purnima / Vaisakhi Purnima
- May 28 – Shavuot begins
- August 6 – Raksha Bandhan
- August 14 – Krishna Janmashtami
- August 22 – Ramadan begins
- August 23 – Ganesh Chaturthi
- September 2 – Onam
- September 18 – Rosh Hashanah begins
- September 19 – Navratri begins
- September 20 – Eid ul-Fitr
- September 27 – Yom Kippur begins
- September 28 – Dussehra
- October 2 – Sukkot begins
- October 17 – Diwali
- November 1 – All Saints' Day in Western Christianity
- November 27 – Eid al-Adha
- December 11 – Hanukkah begins
- December 18 – Islamic New Year (1 Muharram 1431)
- December 25 – Christmas in Western Christianity and most Eastern Orthodox Churches
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