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.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day  
January 21 Martin Luther King Jr Day
February 22 Presidents' Day/Washington's Birthday
May 26 Memorial Day
June 14 Flag Day
July 4 Independence Day
September 1 Labour Day  
October 13 Columbus Day
November 11 Veterans' Day
November 27 Thanksgiving
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 31 New Year's Eve
1Inauguration Day occurs on 20 January of each 4th year starting from 1965. It applies to the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia only and is moved to a Monday if it occurs on a Sunday.