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.
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Date 2008

Occasion

January 1

Independence Day/New Year's Day 

January 2

Ancestry Day

January 6

Epiphany

February 19 - 21

Carnival

March 21

Good Friday

April 14

Pan-American Day / Bastilla's Day

May 1

Labour Day & Ascension Day

May 18

Flag & University Day

May 22

Corpus Christi

August 15

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

October 17

Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines

October 24

United Nations Day

November 1

All Saints Day

November 2

All Soul's Day

November 18

Vertières Day or Armed Forces Day

December 25

Christmas Day

*These may not be public holidays

Carnival lasts a week but only the one day is an official holiday. Many businesses may be closed Monday through Wednesday.

Weekend Sunday