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 New Year's Day  
March 21 Good Friday
March 23 Easter  
March 24 Easter Monday
May 1 Labour Day
May 9 Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
May 1 Ascension
May 11 Whit Sunday (Pentecost)
May 12 Whit Monday
July 14 Bastille Day  
August 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
November 1 All Saints Day
November 11 Armistice Day
December 25 Christmas Day  
You should know:

Holidays falling on a weekend are not moved.

Metal workers have the holiday of St. Eloi on 1 December

Note that when a holiday happens to fall on a Tuesday or Thursday, many French workers may take the Monday or, respectively, Friday, off as well. This is not official and does not apply to institutions such as banks or government, but is sufficiently commonplace to cause difficulties doing business on occasion.

Weekend - Saturday,Sunday