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.
FRENCH POLYNESIA
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day
February 1 Chinese New Year
March 5 Missionary Day
March 21 Good Friday
March 23 Easter  
March 24 Easter Monday
May 1 Labour Day
May 1 Ascension
July 14 Bastille Day  
August 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
September 8 Internal Autonomy Day
November 1 All Saints' Day
November 11 Armistice Day
December 25 Christmas Day  
Festivals
March 5 Arrival of First Missionaries
March last week Week of the Fish
Early May Taputapuatea Inaugural Ceremony (early May)
Late May Tahiti Black Pearl Festival
Late June Maire Fern Day
July 1 Heiva i Tahiti
August 1 Mini Fêtes
Early August Te Aito
September mid Floralies Day
October 1 Stone Fishing Ceremony
Early November Hawaiki Nui
December 1st week Tiare Tahiti Days
Weekend Saturday, Sunday