Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
FAROE ISLANDS
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day
March 21 Good Friday
March 23 Easter
March 24 Easter Monday
April 25 Flag Day
May 1 Ascension
June 12 Whit Monday
June 5 Constitution Day (from midday only)
July 28 Õlavsøka Eve
July 29 Õlavsøka (St Olav's Day, National Day)
December 24 Christmas Eve
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 26 Boxing Day
December 31 New Year's Eve (from noon)
Town Fetes
May 4th weekend Town fete in Klaksvík
June 2nd weekend Town fete in Runavík
June 4th weekend Town fetes in Vágur and Tvøroyri
July 1st weekend Town fete in Fuglafjørður
July 4th weekend Town fete in Miðvágur and Sandavágur

Each fete runs from Friday to Sunday. Tórshavn does not have a date but the fete is on Ólavsøka

*4th Friday after Easter