At-a-glance Multicultural Calendar
To learn more about these religious observances and multicultural holidays, including the general practices, dates in future years, and more, please click through the calendar entries, below or visit the monthly calendar entries.
2024-25 Academic Year
Fall Quarter 2024
September 2024
September 2024 Full Listing
7: Ganesh Chaturthi / Vinayak Chaturthi / Vinayaka Chaturthi / Ganeshotsav
8: Nativity of Mary
12: Paitishahem Gahanbar
15-16: Mawlid al-Nabi
22: Mabon
22: Alban Elfed / Autumnal Equinox
27: Elevation of the Life-Giving Cross, Holy Cross Day
27: Meskel
30: International Blasphemy Rights DayOctober 2024
October 2024 Full Listing
2: Mehregan
2-4: Rosh Hashanah | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date. If planning an event, provide food accommodation (kosher restrictions apply). Learn more
3-12: Navratri
4: Blessing of the Animals
4: Saint Francis Day
5: Fast of Gedaliah
11-12: Yom Kippur | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date and after a day of fasting. Avoid scheduling activities after 3:00 pm on the first day.
12: Dasara / Dussehra
12: Ayathrem Gahanbar
28: Milvian Bridge Day
16-17: Twin Holy Days, Birth of the Bab and Baha’u’llah | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date. Those celebrating will likely request to have these days off.
16-23: Sukkot | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities after sundown on the first evening and on the following two days. If planning an event, provide food accommodation (kosher restrictions apply).
20: First Installation of Guru Granth Sahib in the Golden Temple
23-25: Shemini Atzeret | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date. If planning an event, provide food accommodations (kosher restrictions apply).
24-25: Simchat Torah | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, and activities on this date. If planning an event, provide food accommodation (kosher restrictions apply).
31: All Hallows' Eve / All Saints' Eve / Halloween
31: Reformation Day
31-November 1: SamhainNovember 2024
November 2024 Full Listing
1: New Year
1: Diwali / Deepavali | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, and activities on this date. Those celebrating will likely request the day off.
1-2: Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead / Día de Muertos
1: All Hallows' Day / All Saints' Day / Hallowmas
2: All Souls'Day
15: Guru Nanak Gurpurab
15-December 24: Nativity Fast | If planning an event, provide food accommodations as stipulated
24Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur
24: Feast of Christ the King
24-25: Day of Covenant
26-27: Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha
30: Saint Andrew's DayDecember 2024
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2-24: Advent
6: Saint Nicholas Day
8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception
12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
13: Salgirah
16: Posadas Navideñas
20: Yalda Night / Shab-e Yalda / Shab-e Chelleh
24: Christmas | This is a national holiday in the United States, so special accommodations are likely not required.
26-January 1, 2025: Kwanzaa
25-January 2, 2025: Hanukkah / Chanukah | Work is permitted, not a work holiday. Provide food accommodation (kosher restrictions apply—potato pancakes, doughnuts or other fried food is customary).
26: Zartosht No-Diso
29: Holy Innocents Day
29: Feast of the Holy Family
30: Feast of the Holy Family
31: Watch Night
Winter and Spring Quarter 2025 Coming Soon
2023-24 Academic Year
Winter Quarter 2024
- January 2024
January 2024 full listing
1: Feast Day of Saint Basil
1: Gantan-sai | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities.
1: Solemnity of Mary / Mary, Mother of God
6: Epiphany / Twelfth Night / Three Kings Day / Dia de los Reyes
7: Christmas / Feast of the Nativity | Because this holiday does not fall within the winter break, Eastern Orthodox practitioners will likely request this day off.
7: Nativity of Christ
7: Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
8: Bodhi Day
13: Lohri
14: Maghi / Makar Sankranti
17: Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
17: Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib
18-25: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
20: Timkat
21: World Religion Day
24-25: Tu B'shvat
25: Mahayana New Year
25: Conversion of Saint PaulFebruary 2024
February 2024 full listing
1: Imbolc / Candlemas
2: Presentation of Our Lord to the Temple
3: Saint Blaze Day
3: Setsubum-sai
5: Saint Brighid of Kildare
8: Isra'a and Mi'raj
10: Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year / Tet / Spring Festival | Avoid
scheduling important academic deadlines, events, and activities on this date.
13: Shrove Tuesday / Fat Tuesday
14: Ash Wednesday | Provide food accommodations (prohibitions include animal products).
14: Saint Valentine's Day
15: Vasant Panchami
15: Parinirvana / Nirvana Day
24: Lailat al-Bara'ah
25: Triodion
26-29: Intercalary Days / Ayyam-i-Ha
29-March 19: Nineteen Day FastMarch 2024
8: Maha Shivaratri
10-April 9: Ramadan | If possible, avoid scheduling major academic deadlines
during this time. Be sensitive to the fact that students and employees celebrating Ramadan will be fasting during the day (continuously for 30 days) and will likely have less stamina as a result. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (halal dietary restrictions apply). Learn more
13: L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday
15: Hamaspathmaidyem Gahambar
17: Saint Patrick's Day
18: Clean Monday
21: Saint Benedict Day
21: Fast of Esther
23: Purim | Purim is not subject to the restrictions on work that affect some other holidays. However, some sources indicate that Jews should not go about their ordinary business on Purim out of respect for the festival. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (kosher restrictions apply).
24: Orthodox Sunday
24: Pioneer Day
25: Holi
26: Khordad Sal
25-27: Hola Mohalla
28: Maundy Thursday
29: Good Friday / Good Friday | Provide food accommodations: Meat is prohibited during meals for some (fish is not considered meat). Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities on the date.
31: Easter
Spring Quarter 2024
April 2024
6: Lailat as-Qadr / Nuzulul Qur'an
6: Laylat al-Qadr
9: Eid al-Fitr | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date. Employees will likely ask to take a vacation day on this day, and that request should be granted if at all possible. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (halal dietary restrictions apply).
13: Baisakhi / Vaisakhi
20-May 1: First Day of Ridvan | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
21: Mahavir Jayanti
22-30: Pesach / Passover | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities after sundown on the first days, on the following two full days, and on last two days of the holiday. Provide food accommodation (kosher restrictions apply; the use of leavening is prohibited so, for example, matzah is eaten in place of bread.)
23: Hanuman Jayanti
23: Saint George's Day
24-26: Theravadin New Year
28-29: Ninth Day of Ridvan | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
30: Maidyozarem GahanbarMay 2024
1: Beltane
1-2: Twelfth Day of Ridvan | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
2: National Day of Prayer
2: National Day of Reason
3: Saint Phillip and James
5: Pascha / Easter
9: Ascension of Jesus
12-13: Yom Hazikaron
12-13: Yom Ha'atzmaut
19: Pentecost
27-28: Ascension of Baha'u'llah | Those celebrating will likely request the day off.
22-23: Declaration of the Bab | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
23: Visakha Puja / Vesak | Provide food accommodations and offer vegetarian options when planning menus for events on this date.
25: Lag Ba'Omer
26: Trinity Sunday
30: Corpus ChristiJune 2024
7: Feast of the Sacred Heart
9: St. Columba of Iona
10: Martyrdom of Guru Arjan
11-13: Shavuot | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities. Provide food accommodations (kosher restrictions apply‚ although, it is customary to eat dairy).
15-16: Day of Arafat in Hajj
16-17: Eid al-Adha | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, and activities. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (halal dietary restrictions apply).
19: Juneteenth
19: New Church Day
24: Litha / Midsomer / Alban Hefin / Summer Solstice
24: Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
29: Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul
29-July 3: Maidyoshahem Gahanbar
Summer Session 2024
July 2024
7-8: Al-Hijra - New Year
9: Martydom of the Bab | If possible, avoid scheduling major academic deadlines during this time.
11: Imamat Day
15: Saint Vladimir the Great Day
16-17: Day of Ashura | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date.
21: Guru Purnima / Poornima
23: Seventeenth of Tammuz
23: Birthday of Emperor Haile Selassi
25: Saint James the Great DayAugust 2024
1: Lammas
1: Lughnasadh / Imbolc
6: Transfiguration of the Lord
6: Transfiguration Sunday
12-13: Tisha Ba'Av | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines,
events, or activities on this date and after a day of fasting.
13-15: Obon
15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
15: Dormition of the Theotokis
15: Fast in Honor of the Holy Mother of Lord Jesus / Dormition Fast | If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations as stipulated.
18: The Ghost Festival / Ullambrana
19: Raksha Bandhan
26: Krishna Janmashtami | Avoid scheduling major academic deadlines on this day, since it is likely that students will be operating on very little sleep.
29: Beheading of John the Baptist
30: Paryushana Parva | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events or activities during the eight days of fasting.