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- Abkhazians – Major holidays (Liberation Day; Lykhny Meadow; New Year)*;
- Adjarians – Major holidays (International Women's Day; Men's Day; New Year's Eve; Ramadan)*;
- Afghanis – Major holidays (Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; Ashura; Jeshn or Independence Day; Mawoulid An-Nawabi; Muslim New Year; Nawruz; Ramadan; Revolution Day; Worker's Day or Labor Day)**;
- African Americans – Major holidays (Birthday of Malcolm X; Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Juneteenth; Kwaanza)*;
- African Brazilians – Major holidays (February 2 – Iemanja; Carnival; Liberation of Brazilian slaves)*;
- Afrikaners – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Boxing Day; Christmas; Day of Goodwill; Day of Reconciliation; Day of the Covenant; Easter Monday; Family Day; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Heritage Day; Human Rights Day; National Women's Day; New Year's Day; Worker's Day; Youth Day)**;
- Ahirs – Major holidays (Diwali; Gopashtami; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Janamastami)*;
- Ainu – Major holidays (Cipsanke; Iomante)**;
- 'Alawis – Major holidays (Nowruz)*;
- Albanians – Major holidays (Albanian Independence Day; Christmas; Dita e Veres; Easter; Labor Day; Liberation Day; Mother Teresa Day; Ramadan; St. Nicholas's Day)**;
- Algerians – Major holidays (Algerian Independence Day; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Labor Day; New Year's Day)**;
- Alsatians – Major holidays (Ami Fritz Festival; Candlemas; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Corsos fleuris; Easter; Epiphany; Feast of St. Nicholas; Musician's Festival; Saint John Fires Day)**;
- Altays – Major holidays (festival of Erlik; festival of Ulgen; New Year's Day; Victory Day)*;
- Ambonese – Major holidays (Idul Fitri)*;
- American immigrants – Major holidays (American Independence Day; Cambodian American New Year; Chinese New Year; Columbus Day; Hmong New Year; Labor Day; Mardi Gras; Memorial Day; New Year's Day; Rosh Hashanah; St. Patrick's Day; Thanksgiving; Vietnamese New Year)*;
- Americans – Major holidays (Independence Day; Thanksgiving Day)*;
- Amhara – Major holidays (Battle of Adwa Day; Feasts(s) of Gabriel; Feast(s) of George; Feast(s) of Mary; Feast(s) of Michael; Freedom Day)*;
- Amish – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Christmas; Easter; Good Friday; Pentecost)*;
- Andalusians – Major holidays (Andalusia Day; Corpus Christi; Day of St. Peter and St. Paul; Epiphany; Holy Week; Horse Fair; New Year's Day; Romeria del Rocio; St. James's Day; St. John's Night; St. Joseph's Day; Virgen del Carmen)*;
- Andhras – Major holidays (Chauti; Dasahara; Divali; Holi; Pochamma; Rath Saptami; Shivaratri; Ugadi)*;
- Andorrans – Major holidays (Andorran National Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Good Friday; New Year's Day)*;
- Anglo Australians – Major holidays (ANZAC Day; Australia Day; Boxing Day; Christmas; Easter)**;
- Anglo Indians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter Sunday; Good Friday)*;
- Angolans – Major holidays (Angolan Independence Day; Armed Forces Day; Christmas; Day of the Martyrs; Foundation of the MLPA Workers' Party Day; Inicio de Luta Armada; Mardi Gras; National Hero's Day; New Years' Day; Pioneers' Day; Reconciliation Day; Victory Day; Youth Day)*;
- Antiguans and Barbudans – Major holidays (Antigua and Barbuda Independence Day; Boxing Day; CARICOM Day; Carnival; Christmas Day; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Whit Monday)*;
- Argentines – Major holidays (Argentine Independence Day; celebration of the May Revolution of 1810; Christmas; Dia de San Martin; Easter; Malvinas Day)*;
- Armenians – Major holidays (Armenian earthquake of April 24; Armenian Genocide Day; Christmas; Easter; Independence from the Soviet Union Day; New Year's Day; Vardavar)**;
- Asháninka – Major holidays (Festival of the Moon)*;
- Asian Indian Americans – Overview (holidays – American Independence Day; Baisakhi; Buddha Purnima; Deepvali or Diwali; Durga Puja; Dussehra; Gandhi Jayanti; Holi; Id'Ul'Fitr; Id-Uz-Zuha; Indian Independence Day; Janmashtami; Mahavir Jayanti; Muharram; Onam; Pongal or Sankranti; Ramadan; Republic Day)***;
- Australian Aborigines – Major holidays (Australia Day)*;
- Austrians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Boxing Day; Corpus Christi; 1955 Declaration of Neutrality Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Fasching; Feast of St. Leonard; Feast of St. Martin; Feast of the Ascension; Feast of the Assumption; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Krampus night; Labor Day; St. Nicholas's Day; Schemenlaufen; Whitmonday)**;
- Aymara – Major holidays (Bolivian Independence Day; Carnival; Christmas; Dia del Indio; Easter)*;
- Azerbaijanis – Major holidays (Black January – January 20; Independence Day; New Years Day; Novruz)**;
- Baganda – Major holidays (Christmas; Ramadan)*;
- Bahamians – Major holidays (Bahamas Independence Day; Discovery Day; Emancipation Day; Junkanoo; Labor Day)*;
- Bahrainis – Major holidays (Ashura; Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr;Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; National Day; New Year's Day; Ramadan)*;
- Bai – Major holidays (Memorial Ceremony for the Dead; Rao San Ling; Spring Festival; Third Month Fair; Torch Festival; Yu Tan Hui)**;
- Bajau – Major holidays (Dakampungan)*;
- Bakongo – Major holidays (annual Kimbangua day; April 6 (beginning of Kimbangua's healing ministry); Birthday of Papa Dialungana; Christmas; Death of Kimbangua; Easter; Parents' Day)*;
- Balinese – Major holidays (Eka Dasa Rudra; Galungan; Nyepi)**;
- Balūchi – Major holidays (Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; 10th of Muharrum)*;
- Bamana – Major holidays (Bamana New Year)*;
- Banias – Major holidays (Death of Mahavira; Divali; Ganupati)*;
- Banjarese – Major holidays (Aruh menyanggar banua; Aruh terbang besar; Mawlud)*;
- Banyankole – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
- Barbadians – Major holidays (Barbados Independence Day; Baron Bliss Day; CARICOM Day; Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; May Day; New Year's Day; United Nations Day; Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday)*;
- Bashkirs – Major holidays (New Year's Day; Qorban Bayrami; Sabantuy; Victory Day; Yiyin)*;
- Basques – Major holidays (St. John's Day; Virgen Blanca; Virgen de Begona; Virgen del Carmen)*;
- Bedu – Major holidays (Ayd al-Adha; Ayd al-Fitr)*;
- Belarusans – Major holidays (Christmas; Christmas Eve; Easter; Palm Sunday)*;
- Belgians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Anniversary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs; Christmas; Easter Monday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Ommegang; Shrove Tuesday Carnival)*;
- Belizeans – Major holidays (Belize Independence Day; Birthday of the British monarch; Columbus Day; Commonwealth Day; Garifuna Settlement Day; St. George's Caye Day; San José Succotz – March 19 and May 3; Yancanú)*;
- Bemba – Major holidays (Zambia Independence Day)*;
- Bengalis – Major holidays (Divali; Durga Puja; Holi; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram)*;
- Beninese – Major holidays (Benin Independence Day; Christmas; Easter; Ramadan; Tabaski)*;
- Berbers – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Labor Day; New Year's Day)**;
- Bhils – Major holidays (Bhagoriya Festival; Dashara; Divali; Gauri; Holi)*;
- Bhutanese – Major holidays (Domchheo; King's birthday; Losar; National Day; Tsechu)*;
- Bhutia – Major holidays (Asadh Shankranti; Bikhid; Lapsa; Losar; Losoong)*;
- Bolivians – Major holidays (Bolivian Independence Day; Carnival; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter; Labor Day; Pookhyái)**;
- Bosnians – Major holidays (Bosnian New Year; Catholic Christmas; Day of the Republic; Eid al-Fitr; Korrida; Marshal Tito's birthday; New Year's Day; Orthodox Christmas; Ramadan)**;
- Brahmans – Major holidays (Shravani-purnima)*;
- Brahui – Major holidays (Imamak)*;
- Brazilians – Major holidays (Carnival)*;
- Bretons – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Bastille Day; Christmas; Epiphany; Feast of the Assumption; Labor Day; New Year's Day; World War II Armistice Day)*;
- Bruneians – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas Day; Hari Raya Ed-il-Fitri; Hari Raya Haji; Hijrah; Hijrah Hari Raya Aidiladha; Isra' Mikraj; Muhammad's birthday; National Day; New Year's Day; Nuzul al-Quran; Royal Brunei Armed Forces Day; Sultan's birthday)*;
- Buddhists in South Asia – Major holidays (birthday of the monk who founded Lamaism; Buddha Purnima; end of Bhiksu Vassa; Madhu Purnima; Magha Purnima; Wheel of Law Day)**;
- Bulgarians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of Letters; Easter Monday; Labor Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Buriats – Major holidays (Buriat New Year; Christmas; Easter; International Women's Day; Soviet victory over Nazis - May 9; Tsagaalgan)*;
- Burkinabe – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; 'id al-Fitr; 'id al-Kabir)*;
- Burman – Major holidays (Light Festival; Martyr's Day; Myanmar's national day; New Year; Thingan or Water Festival; Union Day)*;
- Burundians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption Day; Burundi Independence Day; Christmas; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Umuco)**;
- Buyi – Major holidays (Buffalo King Festival; Genjiang; Mid-Autumn Festival; Spring Festival)*;
- Cajuns – Major holidays (Mardi Gras)*;
- Cambodian Americans – Overview (holidays – Chaul Chnam)***;
- Cameroonians – Major holidays (Christmas; Christmas Eve; National Day; New Year's Day; Youth Day)*;
- Canadians – Major holidays (Canada Day; Labour Day; New Year's Day; Thanksgiving Day; Victoria Day)*;
- Cape Verdeans – Major holidays (Assassination of Amilcar Cabral; Cape Verde Independence Day; Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Tabanka)*;
- Castilians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of Saint Peter and Saint Paul; Easter; Festival of San Isidro; National Day; New Year's Day; St. James's Day; St. Joseph's Day)*;
- Catalans – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas; Day of the Dead; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Anthony; Feast of St. George; Feast of St. John; Feast of St. Peter; La Diada; Pentecost)*;
- Central Africans – Major holidays (Central African Republic Independence Day)*;
- Chadians – Major holidays (Chad Independence Day)*;
- Chagga – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter weekend; Id-el-Fitre; Id-el-Hajj; Maulid; New Year's Day; Peasants Day; Tanzanian Independence Day; Union Day; Workers Day)*;
- Chākmās – Major holidays (Bishu; Buddha Purnima)*;
- Cham – Major holidays (Bon Cabur; Bon Kate; Eidul-Fitr; Ramadan)**;
- Chamārs – Major holidays (Divali; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Nagpanchami)*;
- Chechens – Major holidays (Day of International Socialism; New Year's Day; Russian National Pride Day)**;
- Chewa – Major holidays (Malawi Independence Day; 3 March – remembrance of those who died in the struggle for independence)*;
- Chileans – Major holidays (Army Glories Day; Chilean Independence Day; Labor Day; Naval Glories Day; Race Day)*;
- Chin – Major holidays (arrival of Christian missionaries; Chin National Day; Christmas; Easter; Harvest Festival)*;
- China and her national minorities – Major holidays (Lantern Festival; Mid-Autumn Festival; National Day of China; Qingming; Spring Festival)**;
- Chinese Americans – Overview (holidays – Bomb Day; Chinese New Year; Ching Ming; fall Moon Festival)***;
- Choctaw – Major holidays (Mississippi Choctaw's Indian Fair)*;
- Chuvash – Major holidays (Akatui; Surhuri)*;
- Circassians – Major holidays (New Year's Eve; Russian Black Sea victory - May 21)*;
- Colombians – Major holidays (Colombian Independence Day; Discovery of America – October 12; Easter)*;
- Colored people of South Africa – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Day of Goodwill; Day of Reconciliation; Family Day; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Heritage Day; Human Rights Day; National Women's Day; New Year's Day or “Coon Carnival”; Workers' Day; Youth Day)**;
- Comanches – Major holidays (Comanche Homecoming; Comanche Nation Fair)*;
- Comorians – Major holidays (birth of Muhammad; Comoros Independence Day; Idd el Adha; Idd el Fitri; Labor Day; March 16 – Death of President Said Mohammed Cheik; Miraj; New Years' Day)*;
- Congolese (Brazzaville) – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Congolese (Brazzaville) Independence Day; Easter; National Reconciliation Day; New Years' Day)*;
- Congolese (Zairians) – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; May 20 – Foundation o the Popular Revolutionary Movement Party; New Years' Day; Parents' Day; Zairian Independence Day)*;
- Coptic Christians – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Assumption Day; Circumcision of the Lord; Coptic Christmas; Easter; Entrance into Egypt; Entrance into the Temple; Epiphany; Great Lent; Holy Thursday; Palm Sunday; Pentecost; Thomas Sunday; Transfiguration)*;
- Costa Ricans – Major holidays (Christmas Eve; Costa Rican Independence Day; Holy Week; Our Lady of the Angels)*;
- Creeks – Major holidays (Green Corn Ceremony)*;
- Creoles of Louisiana – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Mardi Gras)*;
- Creoles of Sierra Leone – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; end of Ramadan; Sierra Leone Independence Day)*;
- Croats – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Anti-Fascist Struggle Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Corpus Christi; Croatian Independence Day; Croatian National Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of the Assumption; International Labor Day; Kurban Bairam; Mardi Gras; New Year's Day; Orthodox Christmas; Ramadan Bairam; Rosh Hashanah; St. Nicholas's Eve; Victory and Thanksgiving Day; Yom Kippur)*;
- Cuban Americans – Overview*** (holidays – All Saints' Day; Christmas Eve; Epiphany; Feast of Our Lady of Charity; Feast of Santa Barbara; Good Friday; Holy Week; Palm Sunday);
- Cubans – Major holidays (Epiphany; January 1; July 26; May Day; October 10)*;
- Cunas – Major holidays (Colombian Independence Day; Panamanian Indepdence Day)*;
- Czechs – Major holidays (Christmas Eve; Czechoslovak Independence Day; end of World War II; Jan Hus Memorial Day; New Year's Day; Saint Nicholas's Day; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day; Velvet Revolution Day)*;
- Dai – Major holidays (Aowasa Festival; Closed-Door Festival; Dampa Festival; Dandanmu Festival; Dangang Festival; Danmuohaban Festival; Danpopazhao Festival; Haolunwa Festival; Haowasa Festival; Hunaglu Festival; Multicolored Egg Festival; Opened-Door Festival; Shanghan Festival; Spring Festival; Wagter-splashing Festival)**;
- Dakota and Lakhota – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Fourth of July; Sisseton Wahpeton Wacipi; Sun Dance; Thanksgiving; Veterans Day)*;
- Danes – Major holidays (American Independence Day; Ascension Thursday; Boxing Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Constitution Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Holy Thursday; Liberation Day; Monday before Shrove Tuesday; Pentecost; queen's birthday; Store Bededag; Whitmonday)*;
- Dani – Major holidays (Pig Feast)*;
- Derong – Major holidays (Kaqueqi Festival)*;
- Djiboutians – Major holidays (birthday of Muhammad)*;
- Dominicans (Dominica) – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Boxing Day; Carnival; Christmas Day; Community Service Day; Creole Day; Dominican Independence Day; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; May Day; National Day or Independence Day; New Year's Day; Whit Monday)*;
- Dominicans (Dominican Republic) – Major holidays (Christmas; Corpus Christi; Day of Our Lady of Altagracia; Dia de Duarte; Dominican Republic Independence Day; Dominican Restoration Day; Feast of Our Lady of Mercy; Good Friday; Labor Day)*;
- Dong – Major holidays (Dong's New Year; Festival of the Birth of the Buffalo God; Spring Festival)*;
- Dyula – Major holidays (Donba; Sunkalo; Tabaski)*;
- Ecuadorians – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; New Year's Day)*;
- Egyptians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Evacuation Day; Labor Day; Mother's Day; National Day; New Years' Day; Revolution Day; Sham al-Nism; Sinai Liberation Day; Victory Day)**;
- Embu – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Kenya Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Emirians ((United Arab Emirates) – Major holidays (accession of Sheikh Zayid of Abu Dhabi – August 6; al-Mawlid An-Nabi; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Isra' wa Al-Mi'raj; 1st of Muharram; National Day; New Year's Day; individual holiday of each emirate)*;
- English – Major holidays (August Bank Holiday; Guy Fawkes' Night; May Day; New Year's Day)*;
- English in South Africa – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Day of Reconciliation; Family Day; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Human Rights Day; Worker's Day)*;
- Equatorial Guineans – Major holidays (Armed Forces Day; Equatorial Guinea Independence Day)*;
- Eritreans – Major holidays (Beginning of Armed Resistance Day; Eid al-Fahta; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Nabi; Eritrean Independence Day; Fasika; Labor Day; Martyrs' Day; Meskel; New Year's Day; Timkat; Western Christmas; Women's Day)**;
- Estonians – Major holidays (Christmas; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; St. John's Night or Midsummer's Day)**;
- Ethiopians – Major holidays (Ethiopian Independence Day; Ethiopian New Year)*;
- Evenki – Major holidays (New Year's Day; Victory Day)*;
- Ewe – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Ghana Independence Day; Hogbetsotso Za; New Year's Day; Republic Day; Workers' Day; Yam Festival)*;
- Ewenki – Major holidays (Aobao Gathering; Mikuole Festival; Spring Festival)*;
- Fijians – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Constitution Day; Fiji Day; Hibiscus Festival; Queen of England's birthday)*;
- Filipino Americans – Overview (holidays – Philippine-American Friendship Day; Philippine Independence Day; Rizal Day)***;
- Filipinos – Major holidays (All Souls' Day; Christmas Day; Holy Week; Misa de Gallo; Santacruzan)**;
- Finns – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Good Friday; Independence Day; May 1; New Year's Day)*;
- Flemings – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Independence Day [Belgium]; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
- French – Major holidays (Epiphany; Labor Day; Mardi Gras; New Year's Eve)*;
- French Americans – Overview (holidays – Feast of St. John the Baptist – June 24; Mardi Gras)***;
- French Canadians – Major holidays (Assumption Day; Christmas; Dollard Day or Victoria Day; Easter; St. Jean Baptiste Day – June 24)*;
- French Guianans – Major holidays (Bastile Day; Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Feast of the Assumption; Labor Day)*;
- Frisians – Major holidays (Ascension; Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Holy Saturday; Memorial Day; National Liberation Day; New Year's Day; queen's birthday; St. Nicholas's Day; Whitmonday)*;
- Fulani – Major holidays (birth of Mohammad; Ramadan)*;
- Gabonese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Gabon Independence Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Gambians – Major holidays (August 15 – Feast of St. Mary in Sanjul; Christmas; Gambian Independence Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Gaoshan – Major holidays (Bumper Harvest Festival; Good Year Festival; lunar New Year's Eve; Spring Festival)*;
- Garifuna – Major holidays (Settlement Day)*;
- Georgians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Independence Day; Mariamoba; National Unity Day; Rtveli; St. George's Day)*;
- German Americans – Overview (holidays – German American Day; Oktoberfest)***;
- Germans – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter; Fasching or Karneval; Feast of Corpus Christi; Good Friday; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Oktoberfest; Pentecost; Reformation Day; Repentance and Prayer Day; St. Nicolas's Day)**;
- Ghanaians – Major holidays (Christmas; Damba; Ghana Independence Day; Homowo Festival; Republic Day)*;
- Goans – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Feast of St. Francis Xavier; Ganesha Chaturthi or Chovoth; Good Friday; 'Id ul-'Adha'; 'Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Shigmo)**;
- Gonds – Major holidays (Dasahara; Divali; Holi; Nagpanchami; Pola)*;
- Greek Americans – Overview (holidays – Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; Good Friday; Great Saturday; Greek Independence Day; Holy Apostles' Day)***;
- Greek Cypriots – Major holidays (Carnival; Day of Ascension; Feast of the Assumption of Mary; Greek Independence Day; Greek National Day; Green Monday; Holy Week; Independence Day; Kataklysmos; Pentecost)**;
- Greeks – Major holidays (Easter; Holy Week)*;
- Grenadians – Major holidays (August holidays - 1st Monday and Tuesday of August; Carnival; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Grenada Independence Day; Labour Day; New Year's Day; Thanksgiving; Whit Monday)**;
- Guajiros – Major holidays (Festival of Uribia)**;
- Guatemalans – Major holidays (Black Christ – January 15; Chiantala Virgin Mary – February 2; Chichicastenango; Garifuna arrival; Guatemalan Indepdence Day; Holy Week)**;
- Guayanans or Guayanese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter Monday; end of Ramadan; Phagwah; Republic Day)*;
- Guineans – Major holidays (August 17 – commemorating women's protest of 1977; Tabaski)*;
- Guineans of Guinea-Bissau – Major holidays (Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguoiti; Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment; Christmas; International Women's Day; Korité; Labor Day; National Day or Independence Day; New Year's Day; Tabaski)*;
- Gujaratis – Major holidays (birthday of Mohandas Gandhi; Id ul-Adha and Id al-Fitr (passim); the 6 Zoroastrian Gahambars; Janamashtami; Mahavira's birthday; Muharram; Navratri)*;
- Gurungs – Major holidays (Baisakh Purnima; Dasain; Ghantu; Losar; Tihar)*;
- Haitian Americans – Overview (holidays – Mardi Gras)***;
- Haitians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; All Souls Day; Ancestor's Day; Anniversary of Jean-Jacques Dessaline's Death; Anniversary of the Battle of Vertières; Carnival; Christmas Day; Christmas Eve; Easter Sunday; Feast of the Assumption; Flag Day; Good Friday; Haitian Independence Day; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; Landing of Columbus on Hispaniola – December 5; New Year's Eve; Pan American Day)*;
- Hakka – Major holidays (lunar New Year; Tomb-sweeping Day)*;
- Han – Major holidays (Spring Festival; Moon Godess day – October 15)*;
- Hani – Major holidays (June Festival; Mid-Autumn Festival; October Festival; Spring Festival)*;
- Hausa – Major holidays (Birthday of Mohammed; Id al-Hajj; Ramadan)*;
- Hawaiians – Major holidays (Aloha Week; Lei Day)*;
- Hazaras – Major holidays ('Ashura; Ayd-Al-Adha; Ayd-Al-Fitr; Nawruz)*;
- Hindus – Major holidays (Dasahara or Durga Puja; Divali; Holi; Janamashtami; Kumbha Mela; Onam festival; Pongal festival)**;
- Hindus of Guyana – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter Monday; end of Ramadan; Phagwah; Ramayana Yagna; Republic Day)*;
- Hmong – Major holidays (Hmong New Year)*;
- Hmong Americans – Overview (holidays – New Year Festival)***;
- Hondurans – Major holidays (Birthday of Francisco Morazán; Christmas; Easter Sunday; Esquipulas Jesus – January 15; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Feast of the Virgin of Supaya; Holy Week; Honduran Independence Day; Yancunú)*;
- Hui – Major holidays (Corban Festival; Lesser Bairam; Mid-Autumn Festival; Shengji Festival; Spring Festival)*;
- Hungarians – Major holidays (Busójárás; May Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Hutu – Major holidays (Burundi Independence Day; Genocide Memorial Day; May Day; National Heroes Day; National Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Patriotism Day; Rwanda Independence Day)*;
- Iatmul – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
- Iban – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas; Gawai antu; Gawai batu; Gawai dayak; Gawai kenyalang; Gawai memali umai; Gwai nyintu orang sakit; Hari Raya)*;
- Icelanders – Major holidays (Bank Holiday; Christmas; Easter Monday; Easter Sunday; First Day of Summer; Good Friday; Independence Anniversary; Labor Day; National Day; New Year's Day; Whitmonday; Whitsunday)*;
- Igbo – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; New Year's Day; Nigerian Independence Day)*;
- Ijo – Major holidays (Christmas to New Year's)*;
- People of India – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; birthday of Buddha; Birthday of founder of Jainism; Birthday of Guru Nanak; Birthday of Mohandas Gandhi; Christmas; Dasahara; Divali; Good Friday; Holi; Id-ul-Fitr; Independence Day; Janamashtami; Republic Day; Shivratri)*;
- Indo-Fijians – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Diwali; Fiji Day; Holi; Queen's Birthday; Ramadan)*;
- Indonesians – Major holidays (Ascension Thursday; birth of Muhammad; Christmas; Good Friday; Idul Adha; Idul Fitri; Independence Day; Islamic New Year; New Year's Day; Night of the Ascent of Muhammad; Nyepi; Waisak)*;
- Iranians – Major holidays (end of Ramadan; Id ul-Adha; Islamic Republic Day; Muharram; Now Ruz; Oil Nationalization Day; Revolution Day)**;
- Iraqis – Major holidays (Ahura; Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; Christmas; Easter; Mawoulid An-Nabawi; Muslim New Year; Ramadan)**;
- Irish Americans – Overview (holidays – St. Patrick's Day)***;
- Irish – Major holidays (August Bank Holiday; Easter Monday; Easter Sunday; Good Friday; June Bank Holiday; New Year's Day; St. John's Day; St. Patrick's Day)*;
- Iroquois – Major holidays (Border Crossing Day; New Year festival)**;
- Israelis – Major holidays (Independence Day; Rosh Hashana; Yom Kippur)**;
- Italian Americans – Overview (holidays – All Souls Day; All Souls Eve; Christmas; Columbus Day; Easter; Feast of John the Baptist – June 24; Feast of St. Lucy – December 13; Festa of San Gennaro)***;
- Italians – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Labor Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Palio)*;
- Ivorians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption; Christmas; Easter; Idul Fitri; Ivory Coast Independence Day; Labaski; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Pentecost)*;
- Jains – Major holidays (Deva Divali; Mahavira Jayanti; Pajjusana)**;
- Jamaicans – Major holidays (Ash Wednesday; Christmas; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Jamaican Independence Day; Jonkanoo)**;
- Japanese – Major holidays (Autumnal Equinox; Bon Festival; Children's Day; Christmas; Coming of Age Day; Constitution Day; Culture Day; Emperor's Birthday; Greenery Day; Hina Matsuri; Labor Thanksgiving Day; National Foundation Day; New Year's Day; Respect the Aged Day; Sports Day; Valentine's Day; Vernal Equinox; White Day)**;
- Japanese Americans – Overview (holidays – Bon Odori; Hatsu Mairi; Hina Matsuri; Shogatsu; Tanabata; Tango no Sekku)***;
- Jats – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; Divali; Holi; Id ul-Fitr; Sakhi Sarwar festival; Vaisakhi)*;
- Javanese – Major holidays (birthday of Muhammed; Muslim New Year)**;
- Jewish Americans – Overview (holidays – Chanukah; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur)***;
- Jews of Cochin – Major holidays (Passover; Rosh Hashanah; Simchat Cohen; Simchat Torah; Tisha be-Av)*;
- Jola – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Gambia Independence Day; Good Friday; International Worker's Day; Islamic New Year; Liberation Day; Muhammad's birthday; New Year's Day; Senegal Independence Day)*;
- Jordanians – Major holidays (accession of the king to the throne; Arab League Day; Arab Renaissance Day; Army Day; Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-Isra wa Al-Miraj; Christmas; Independence Day; king's birthday; Labor Day; Mawoulid An-Nabawi; Muslim New Year; New Year's Day; Ramadan; Tree Day)*;
- Kachins – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
- Kadazan – Major holidays (Harvest Festival or Magavau)*;
- Kalenjin – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Jamhuri Day; Kenyatta Day; Madaraka Day; Moi Day)*;
- Karachai – Major holidays (Day of National Resurgence)*;
- Karakalpaks – Major holidays (Constitution Day; Novruz; Uzbekistan Independence Day; Victory Day)**;
- Karens – Major holidays (Buddhist new year; Christmas; Easter; Karen New Year)*;
- Kashmiris – Major holidays (Baisakhi; Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev; Divali; Durga Ashtami; Dussehra; Holi; Ids (unspecified); Khichri Amavasya; Navaratra; Navroz; Ramnavami; Rishi Pit anniversary; Shab-i Barat; Shab-i Mairaj)**;
- Kayapos – Major holidays (Bemp)*;
- Kazakh Chinese – Major holidays (Corban Festival; Nuoluzi Festival)*;
- Keiyo – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Jamhuri Day; Kenyatta Day; Madaraka Day; Moi Day)*;
- Kelabit – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas; Deepavali; Easter; Gawai Dayak; Hari Raya Puasa or Hari Raya Aidil Fitri; New Year's Day; Thaipusam; Wesak Day)*;
- Kenyans – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Idd ul-futr; Kenyatta Day; Labor Day; Madaraka Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Khakass – Major holidays (May Day; Victory Day)*;
- Khasi – Major holidays (Nongkrem Dance)*;
- Khmer – Major holidays (birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha; Cambodian New Year; Festival of the Dead; Kathin)**;
- Kittitians and Nevisians – Major holidays (Bank Holiday - 1st Monday in August; Boxing Day; Carnival; Christmas; Culturama; Emancipation of Slaves; Good Friday; Independence Day – September 19; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Prince of Wales' Birthday; Whit Monday)*;
- Kolis – Major holidays (Attam; Hutasni)*;
- Konds – Major holidays (Chawal Dhuba Jatra; Meriah festival; Semi Jatra)*;
- Korean Chinese – Major holidays (Chinese Lantern Festival; founding of the Yambian Korean Autonomous Prefecture; Spring Festival)**;
- Kosovars – Major holidays (Catholic Christmas; Constitution Day; Eid al-Fitr; Independence Day; Orthodox Christmas)**;
- Kurds – Major holidays (birthday of Muhammad; Persian New Year)*;
- Kuwaitis – Major holidays (Al-Mawlid An Nabawi; Eid Al-Adha; Eid Al-Fitr; Eid Al-Isra' wa Al-Mi'raj; First of Muharram; Liberation Day; National Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Kyrgyz – Major holidays (Christmas; New Year's Day)*;
- Lao – Major holidays (Independence Day; National Day; Rocket Festival; Songkarn; That Luang Festival)**;
- Latvians – Major holidays (All Fool's Day [April 1]; All Fool's Day [April 30]; Christmas; Easter; Ligo svçtki; St. John's Day; Special Harvest Day; Whitsuntide)**;
- Lebanese – Major holidays (Ayd Al-adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Boxing Day; Christmas; Labor Day; Day of the Ascension; Easter; Feast of the Assumption; First of Muharram; Greek Orthodox Easter; Independence Day; Martyr's Day; New Year's Day; Ramadan; St Maroun's Day)**;
- Lepchas – Major holidays (Boom koor)*;
- Li – Major holidays (Spring Festival)*;
- Libyans – Major holidays (Army Day; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Evacuation Day; Libyan Independence Day; Proclamation Day)**;
- Liechtensteiners – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension; Bonfire Sunday; Candlemas; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Dirty Thursday or Sooty Thursday; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Joseph; Good Friday; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; National Day; Nativity of Our Lady; New Year's Day; Whit Monday)*;
- Lingayat – Major holidays (Basava; Divali; Holi; Ugadi)*;
- Lithuanians – Major holidays (Christmas Eve; Day of Independence Restored; Easter; Independence Day)**;
- Luxembourgers – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption Day; Boxing Day; Broom Parade; Carnival; Christmas; Easter Monday; Labor Day; National Day; New Year's Day; St. Barthelemy's Day; Whitmonday)*;
- Macedonians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of the Laborer; Day of the Woman; Easter; Ilinden Uprising)*;
- Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs – Major holidays (Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; Ramadan)*;
- Malagasay – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Assumption; Christmas Day; Labor Day; Memorial Day; Monday Easter; Monday Pentecost Holiday; National Day; New Year's Day; Unity African Organization Day)*;
- Malaysian Chinese – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christmas; Deepavali; Gawai Dayak; Hari Raya Puasa or Hari Raya Aidil Fitri; New Year's Day; Thaipusam; Wesak Day)*;
- Malaysian Indians – Major holidays (Deepavali; Thaipusam)**;
- Malaysian Malays – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; Christian New Year; Christmas; Deepavali; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Malaysian Independence Day; Muslim New Year; Wesak Day)**;
- Maldivians – Major holidays (Birth of Mohammad; Bodu Eidh; Eid al-Fitr; Maldivian Independence Day; New Year's Day; Ramadan; Republic Day)*;
- Malians – Major holidays (Christmas; Democracy Day; Easter; 'Id al-adha; 'Id al-fitr; Mali Independence Day)*;
- Malinke – Major holidays (Birthday of Mohammad; Feast of Ramadan; Tabaski)*;
- Maltese – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Feast of San Grigor; Feast of St. Joseph; Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul; Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Festival Mediterranean; Freedom Day; Good Friday; Holy Friday; Independence Day; L-Imnarja; Maltese Fireworks Festival; Maria Bambina; New Year's Day; Republic Day; St. Paul's Shipwreck; Sette Giugno; Victory Day; Worker's Day)**;
- Man or Manchus – Major holidays (Chinese Spring Festival)*;
- Maori – Major holidays (Waitangi Day)*;
- Mapuches – Major holidays (Nquillatún)*;
- Maräthas – Major holidays (birthday of Ganesha; Divali; Ganesha Chaturthi; Shivaji Jayanti)*;
- Maris – Major holidays (Aga Pairem; Christmas; Easter; Küsoto Pairem; May Dayy; New Year's Day; Victory Day)*;
- Maronites – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Feast of the Ascension; Feast of the Assumption; Festival of the Cross; St Maroun's Day)*;
- Matsigenka – Major holidays (Moon Festival; Peruvian Independence Day)*;
- Mauritanians – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Mauritania Independence Day)*;
- Maya – Major holidays (Christmas; Crazy February; Holy Week)*;
- Melpa – Major holidays (Mount Hagen Show)*;
- Mennonites of Paraguay – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Pentecost)*;
- Mexican Americans – Overview (holidays – Christmas; Cinco de Mayo; Diez y Seis; Easter)***;
- Mexicans – Major holidays (Birthday of Benito Juarez; Christmas Day; Day of the Dead; Epiphany; Holy Week; Mexican Independence Day; Our Lady of Guadalupe)*;
- Miao in China – Major holidays (Miao New Year; Spring Festival)*;
- Micronesians – Major holidays (All Saints Day; Angam Day; Ash Wednesday; Christmas; Easter)*;
- Minangkabau – Major holidays (Deaths of Hassan and Hussein)*;
- Minas – Major holidays (Divali; Gangaur; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Tej)**;
- Miskito – Major holidays (Christmas; New Year's Day)*;
- Moldovans – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Independence Day; National Language Day)**;
- Monégasques – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension; Assumption; Christmas; Day of Saint Roman; Easter; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; Martyrdom of St. Dévote; New Year's Day; Pentecost Monday; St. John's Day; Saint Rainier's Day)*;
- Mongols in China – Major holidays (Aobao; Feast of Genghis Khan; Nadam Rally; Spring Festival)**;
- Mons – Major holidays (Mon National Day)*;
- Montenegrin – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; St. Luke's Day; Statehood Day)*;
- Mordvins – Major holidays (Easter; May Day; New Year's Day; Orthodox New Year; Victory Day)*;
- Mormons – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Pioneer Day)*;
- Moro – Major holidays (Kabunsuan Festival; Ramadan)*;
- Moroccans – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; King Hassan II's Coronation Day; Labor Day; Moroccan Independence Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Mossi – Major holidays (August 4 – Revolution (of 1983) Day; August 5 – Independence Day; Basega; December 11 – Proclamation of the Republic)**;
- Motu – Major holidays (Hiri Festival)*;
- Mozambicans – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Mozambique Independence Day)*;
- Muslims in South Asia – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; Festival of Khawaja Mu'in-ud-din Chisti; Id ul-Fitr; Muslim New Year)**;
- Namibians – Major holidays (Heroes Day; Independence Day; Red Day)*;
- Native North Americans – Major holidays (American Independence Day; Canada Day)*;
- Navajos – Major holidays (Fourth of July)*;
- Naxi – Major holidays (Dragon King Festival; Farm Tools Festival; Mule and Horse Meeting; Spring Festival; Torch Festival)**;
- Ndebele – Major holidays (Nyabela Day)*;
- Nepālīs – Major holidays (Christmas; Dasain; Gai Jatra; Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; Indra Jatra; king's birthday; Lhosar Tamu; Lhosar Sonam; Mani Rimdu; National Unity Day; Seto Machhendranath)**;
- Netherlanders – Major holidays (Liberation of the Netherlands; Memorial Day; New Year's Day; queen's birthday)*;
- New Caledonians – Major holidays (Bastille Day)*;
- New Zealanders – Major holidays (Anzac Day; birthday of the queen; Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Easter; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Waitangi Day)*;
- Newars – Major holidays (Bhairava; Dasain; Divali; Holi; Indra Jatra; Macchendra Jatra)*;
- Niasans – Major holidays (Boro n'adu)*;
- Nicaraguans – Major holidays (feast of Saint Dominic; feast of Saint Jerome; Holy Week; Independence Day; La Purísima; Liberation Day; Posadas)**;
- Nicobarese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr)*;
- Nigerians – Major holidays (Argungu Fish and Cultural Festival; Easter; End of Ramadan; Good Friday; National Day; Tabaski)*;
- Nigeriens – Major holidays (Christmas Day; Concord Day; Eid al-Fitr; Labor Day; Mouloud; New Year's Day; Niger Independence Day; Republic Day; Tabaski)*;
- Ni-Vanuatu – Major holidays (Independence Day; John Frum Day)*;
- Nivkhs – Major holidays (Bear Festival)*;
- Norwegians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Christmas; Christmas Eve; Constitution Day; Easter; Good Friday; Maundy Thursday; Midsummer's Eve)*;
- Nyamwezi – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Good Friday; Id ul-Fitr; Id ul-Hajj; Islamic New Year; May Day/Workers' Day; New Year's Day; Prophet Muhammed's Birthday; Tanzania Independence Day; Union Day)*;
- Ojibwa – Major holidays (Feast of the Dead; Harvest feast)*;
- Omanis – Major holidays (A-Mawlid An-Nabawi; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Isra' wa Al Mi'raj; First of Muharram; National Day)*;
- Oraons – Major holidays (Feast of the Sal blossoms; Jitia; Karam; Mukka Sendra or Janni Sendra; Phagu; Sarhul festival; Sohorai)**;
- Oriya – Major holidays (Ratha Yatra)*;
- Oromos – Major holidays (Buuta; Ireecha; Oromo National Day)*;
- Ossetians – Major holidays (New Year's Day; Wastyrji festival)*;
- Páez – Major holidays (Christmas; Holy Week)*;
- Paiutes – Major holidays (National Indian Day)*;
- Pakistanis – Major holidays (Bakr Id; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Ramadan)*;
- Palestinians – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas; Day of Ascension; Easter; 'Eid al-Adha; 'Eid al-Fitr; end of Ramadan; Feast of the Assumption; first of Muharram; International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people; Muhammad's birthday; New Year's Day)**;
- Pamiri – Major holidays (First furrow; Novruz)*;
- Panamanians – Major holidays (Carnival; Festival of the Black Christ; Holy Week; Independence Days [November 2 and November 28]; Mothers' Day)**;
- Paraguayans – Major holidays (Carnival; Christmas; Dia de la Virgen; Easter; War of the Triple Alliance Day – March 1)*;
- Parsis – Major holidays (Gahambars; Mehragan; Noruz)**;
- Pashtun – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Novruz; 10th of Muharram)*;
- Pemon – Major holidays (Christmas; Holy Week)*;
- Peoples of Dagestan – Major holidays (Eid al-Fitr; New Year's Day; Ramadan)*;
- Peruvians – Major holidays (Independence Day; Lord of the Earthquakes festival)*;
- Poles – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Constitution Day; Corpus Christi Day; Easter; Good Friday; Independence Day; Mother of God of Częstochowa; New Year's Day; St. John's Eve; Worker's Day)**;
- Polynesians – Major holidays (Bastille Day)*;
- Portuguese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Good Friday; Immaculate Conception; Liberty Day; New Year's Day; Portugal Day; Proclamation of the Republic Day; Restoration of Independence Day; Shrove Tuesday)*;
- Puerto Ricans – Major holidays (Christmas; Fourth of July; Memorial Day; San Juan Bautista Day; Three Kings Day)*;
- Punjabis – Major holidays (Bakr-Id; Dasahara; Diwali; Hindu New Year; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Vaisakh or Baisakh)*;
- Qataris – Major holidays (Ayd Al-Adha; Ayd Al-Fitr; Ayd Al-ism wa Al-Miraj; Mawoulid An-Nabawi; Muslim New Year; Ramadan)*;
- Rajasthānis – Major holidays (Baneshwar Fair; birthday of Guru Nanak; birthday of Mahavira; Christmas; Dassehra; Diwali; Easter; Gangaur; Govardhan Puja; Holi; Nagaur Fair; Ramadan; Teej)**;
- Rājputs – Major holidays (Dasahara; Divali; Shivratri)*;
- Rakhines – Major holidays (Buddhist New Year; Thorn Garan)*;
- Rohingyas – Major holidays (Eid Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Ramadan)*;
- Roma – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter)*;
- Romanians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; New Year's Day)**;
- Russians – Major holidays (Christmas; Day of National Unity; Day of the Protector of the Motherland; Easter; Epiphany; Labor and Spring Day; New Year's Eve; St. Nicholas' Day; Victory Day; Women's Day)**;
- Rwandans – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Ascension Day; Christmas; Easter; Liberation Day; National day of Mourning – April 7; Rwanda Independence Day; Umuganura)*;
- Saint Lucians – Major holidays (August Bank Holiday; Boxing Day; Carnival; Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Independence Day; La Marguerite [feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque]; La Rose [feast of St. Rose of Lima]; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Queen of England's Official Birthday; St. Lucia Day; Thanksgiving Day)**;
- Saint Vincentians – Major holidays (Big Drum festival; Boxing Day; CARICOM Day; Carnival Tuesday; Christmas; Easter Monday; Emancipation Day; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Day; Whit Monday)*;
- Sami – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas Eve; Easter; Pikkujoulu; Sami National Day)*;
- Sammarinese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Anniversary of St. Agatha; Anniversary of the Arengo; Ascension; Assumption; August Bank Holiday; Captains Regent's election days; Christmas; Commemoration of the Dead; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Marino; Immaculate Conception; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Samoans – Major holidays (Mother's Day; National Independence days)*;
- Santals – Major holidays (Baha; Dansae; Disom Sendra; Erok Sim; Hariar Sim; Iri-Gundhi Nawai; Janthar; Jom Sim; Magh Sim; Mak Mor; Sohrae)*;
- São Toméans – Major holidays (Agricultural Reform Day; All Saints' Day; Armed Forces Day; Christmas Day; Labor Day; Martyrs' Day; New Year's Day; São Tomé Independence Day)*;
- Sasak – Major holidays (Alip Festival; Bau Nyale; Maulid)*;
- Saudis – Major holidays (first of Muharram; 'Id al-Adha; 'Id al-Fitr; 'Id al-Isra' wa al-Mi'raj; Mawlid An-Nabawi; National Day)*;
- Scots – Major holidays (Burns Night; Christmas; Halloween; Hogmanay; St. Andrew's Day)*;
- Seminoles and Miccousukees – Major holidays (Christmas; Green Corn Dance)*;
- Senegalese – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; end of Ramadan; Senegal Independence Day)*;
- Serbs – Major holidays (Ascension; Christmas; Day of Saint Sava; Day of Statehood; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Good Friday; Holy Saturday; May Day or Labor Day; New Year's Day; Palm Sunday; St. Dimitri's Day; St. George's Day; St. John's Day; St. Michael's Day; St. Nicholas's Day; St. Vitus's Day; Victory Day; Visitation)*;
- Seychellois – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Assumption Day; Christmas; Easter Sunday; Fête Dieu or Corpus Christi; Good Friday; Immaculate Conception; January 2; New Year's Day; Queen of England's official birthday)*;
- Shambaa – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter weekend; Id el-Fitre; Id el-Hajj; Maulid; New Year's Day; Peasants' Day; Tanzania Independence Day; Union Day; Workers' Day)*;
- Shans – Major holidays (Buddhist Lent; Mae waan; Rocket Festival)**;
- Sherpas – Major holidays (Dumje; Losar; Mani Rimdu; Nyungne)**;
- Shilluk – Major holidays (Sudan Independence Day)**;
- Sikhs – Major holidays (birthday of Guru Nanak; birthday of Gobind Singh; Divali; Holi; martyrdom of Arjun Mal; Vaisakhi)*;
- Sindhis – Major holidays (death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar; death of Sachal Sarmast; death of Shah Abdul Latif; Id ul-Adha; Id ul-Fitr; Muharram; Ramadan)*;
- Sinhalese – Major holidays (Esala Perahera; Sinhalese New Year; Vesak)*;
- Slovaks – Major holidays (Christmas; Constitution Day; Cyril and Methodius Day; Day of Our Lady of Sorrows; Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy; Easter; Independence Day; Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Slovak National Uprising Day)**;
- Slovenes – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Assumption; Christmas; Easter; Independence Day; New Year's Day; Prešeren Day; Reformation Day; Statehood Day)*;
- Somalis – Major holidays (Id al-Atah; Mowluud; Ramadan)*;
- Songhay – Major holidays (end of Ramadan; Mowlid; Nigerien Independence Day; Tabaski)*;
- Sotho – Major holidays (first black votes in national election; Day of Reconciliation; Heritage Day; Human Rights Day; Lesotho Inependence Day; Moshoeshoe's Day; Workers' Day; Youth Day)*;
- South Koreans – Major holidays (birthday of Buddha; Cherry Blossoms Festival; Children's Day; Christmas; Constitution Day; Independence Movement Day; Liberation Day; Lunar New Year; Memorial Day; National Foundation Day; Snow Festival)**;
- Spaniards – Major holidays (Carnival; Constitution Day; Day of St. Peter and St. Paul; Feast of La Merced; Festival of San Fermin; Festival of San Isidro; Fiesta del Trabajo; Hispanidad Day; National Day; New Year's Day; Night of St. John's Day; St. James's Day; St. Joseph's Day)*;
- Sri Lankans – Major holidays (Esaa Perahera)*;
- Sudanese – Major holidays (Christmas; Eid of sacrifice; end of Ramadan; Moulid; Sudan Independence Day)**;
- Sumbanese – Major holidays (Pasola; Wula Padu)*;
- Sumu – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter)*;
- Sundanese – Major holidays (Armed Forces Day; Kartini Day; New Year's Day; Pancansila Day)*;
- Surinamese – Major holidays (Id ul Fitr; Independence Day; New Year's Eve)*;
- Swahili – Major holidays (Idd al Fitr; Jamhuri Day; Madaraka Day)*;
- Swazis – Major holidays (Incwala; Swazi Independence Day)*;
- Swedes – Major holidays (All Souls' Day; Ascension Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Knut; Good Friday; May Day; Midsummer; New Year's Day; Shrove Tuesday; Summer Solstice; Valborgsmassoafton; Whit Monday)*;
- Swiss – Major holidays (Ascension Day; Bundesfeier; Christmas; Easter Monday; Fastnacht; Good Friday; New Year's Day; Whitmonday)*;
- Syrian Christians in India – Major holidays (Christmas; Dukka Valliacha; Easter; Easter Week)*;
- Syrians – Major holidays (Arab League Day; Army Day; Christian New Year; Christmas; Correction Movement Day; Day of Mourning; Easter; Evacuation Day; first of Muharram; Flight Day; 'Id al-Adha; 'Id al-Fitr; 'Id al-Isra wa Al-Mi'raj; Marine's Day; Martyr's Day; Mawlid An-Nabawi;' Peasant's Day; Revolution Day/Women's Day; Security Force Day; Union Day; Veterans Day)*;
- Tahitians – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Armistice Day; Ascension Day; Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Bastille Day; Chinese New Year; Christmas; Easter Monday; Good Friday; Gospel Day; Heiva I Tahiti; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Victory Day; Whitmonday)*;
- Taiwan indigenous peoples – Major holidays (Christmas; Harvest Festival)**;
- Tajiks – Major holidays (Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; International Women's Day; Labor Day; Maulud al-Nabi; Navruz; New Year's Day; Tajik Independence Day; Victory Day)**;
- Tamils – Major holidays (Pongal; Tamil New Year)*;
- Tanzanians – Major holidays (beginning of Ramadan; Christmas; Easter; end of Ramadan; Labor Day; Mowlid; Nane Nane; SabaSaba; Union Day; Zanzibar Revolution Day)*;
- Tao – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Lunar New Year)**;
- Tatars – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Id al-Adha; Id al-Fitr; International Women's Day; Labor Day; Milad al-Nabi; New Year's Day; Nowruz; Victory Day)*;
- Tausug – Major holidays (Haylaya; Maulud al-Nabi)**;
- Tenetehara – Major holidays (Honey Festival; Maize Festival)*;
- Thai – Major holidays (Chinese New Year; king's birthday; queen's birthday; Songkran)*;
- Tibetans – Major holidays (April 15; Lantern Festival; Tibetan New Year)*;
- Timorese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas Day; Consultation Day; Feast of the Assumption; Feast of the Immaculate Conception; Good Friday; Independence from Indonesia Day; Independence from Portugal Day; Independence Day (West Timor); Isra Miraj Nabi Muhammad; Lebaran; Liberation Day; Maulad Nabi Muhammad; Muharram; New Year's Day; Santa Cruz Day; Waicak Day)*;
- Tigray – Major holidays (Easter; Epiphany; Ethiopian New Year's Day)*;
- Tlingit – Major holidays (Potlatch)*;
- Tonga – Major holidays (African Freedom Day; Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Easter Monday; Farmers' Day; Good Friday; Heroes' Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Unity Day; Youth Day; Zambia Independence Day)*;
- Trinidadians and Tobagonians – Major holidays (Carnival; Divali; Emancipation Day; Hosay; Independence Day; Ramleema)**;
- Tuaregs – Major holidays (end of Ramadan; Ganni; Tabaski)*;
- Tujia – Major holidays (Spring Festival)*;
- Tunisians – Major holidays (Constitution Day; Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Martyrs' Day; May Day or Labor Day; 7 November – Assumption of the Presidency by Ben 'Ali; 15 October – Final evacuation of the French in 1963; Proclamation of the Republic Day; Tunisia Independence Day; Women's Day)*;
- Turkmens – Major holidays (Gurban bairamy; Independence Day; Memorial Day (1948 Ashgabat earthquake; Memorial Day (Veterans); Memorial Day (World War II); Neutrality Day; Nowruz; Oraz bairamy)*;
- Turks – Major holidays (anniversary of Ataturk's death; Ataturk's birthday/National Youth and Sports Day; Berat Kandili; Children's Day or National Sovereignty Day; Kadir Gecesi; Miraç Kandili; New Year's Day; Ramazan; Recep Kandili; Republic Day; Şeker Bayrami; Victory Day)**;
- Tutsi – Major holidays (Genocide Memorial Day; Independence Day; May Day; National Heroes Day; National Liberation Day; New Year's Day; Patriotism Day)*;
- Tuvans – Major holidays (Anniversary of Bolshevik seizure of power; International Women's Day; May Day; New Year's Day; New Year's Eve; Shagaa; Soviet victory over Nazis)*;
- Twa – Major holidays (Christmas; end of Nkumbi; Independence Day)*;
- Tyrolese – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Assumption of Mary; Austrian National Day; Carnival; Christmas; Easter; Easter Monday; Epiphany; Feast of St. Nicholas; Festa della Liberazione; Italian Republic day - June 2; Labor Day; New Year's Day; St. Stephen's Day; Whit Monday)**;
- Udmurts – Major holidays (Gerber; New Year's Day; Sabantuy; Victory Day)*;
- Ugandans – Major holidays (Uganda Independence Day)*;
- Uighurs – Major holidays (Corban Festival; Lesser Baraim; Naoluzi Festival)**;
- Ukrainians – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Ivana Kupala; New Year's Day)*;
- Uruguayans – Major holidays (Carnival; Easter Week)*;
- Uzbeks – Major holidays (Independence Day; Novruz; Victory Day)*;
- Vaupes – Major holidays (arrival of Christopher Columbus; Independence Day)*;
- Venezuelans – Major holidays (Battle of Carabobo; discovery of America; Independence Day; Labor Day; Simon Bolivar's birthday)*;
- Vietnamese – Major holidays (Anniversary of peace agreement ending Vietnam War; estabishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Tet; Withdrawl of American troops)**;
- Vlachs – Major holidays (Aromanian National Day; Christmas; Easter)*;
- Walloons – Major holidays (All Saints' Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Independence Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day)*;
- Welsh – Major holidays (Boxing Day; Christmas; Easter Monday; Festival of St. Dwyhwon; Good Friday; New Year's Day; St. David's Day; Spring Bank Holiday; Summer Bank Holiday)*;
- Wolof – Major holidays (Senegalese Independence Day; Tabaski)*;
- Xhosa – Major holidays (April 27 – day of first black South African national vote; Day of Reconciliation; Heritage Day; June 16th; March 21st; Workers' Day)*;
- Yao – Major holidays (Danu Festival; Harvest Festival; New Year's Eve; Singing Festival; Spring Festival)**;
- Yemenis – Major holidays (Eid al-Adha; Eid al-Fitr; Independence Day; Labor Day; National Day; National Unity Day; New Year's Day; Revolution Day)*;
- Yi – Major holidays (Spring Festival; Torch Festival; Yi New Year Festival)*;
- Yoruba – Major holidays (Christmas; Easter; Idul Adha; Idul Fitr; Islamic New Year; Maulid an-Nabi; Nigerian Independence Day; Ramadan)*;
- Zambians – Major holidays (African Freedom Day; Boxing Day; Christmas Day; Easter weekend; Farmers Day; Heroes Day; Labor Day; New Year's Day; Unity Day; Youth Day; Zambia Independence Day)*;
- Zhuang – Major holidays (birthday of the Buffalo God; Late New Year; Lunar New Year's Eve)*;
- Zimbabweans – Major holidays (Africa Day; Christmas; Defense Forces Day; Easter; Heroes Day; Workers' Day; Zimbabwe Independence Day)*;
- Zulu – Major holidays (Shaka's Day)*;