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  • Next month: February

January 2020

Significant January holidays:

  • 1 New Year’s Day

  • 6 Epiphany

  • 20 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday observed

  • 25 Chinese New Year

  • Prevous month: January

  • Next month: March

February 2020

Significant February holidays:

  • Black History Month

  • 2 Groundhog Day

  • 12 Lincoln’s Birthday

  • 14 Valentine’s Day

  • 17 Washington’s Birthday observed

  • 22 Washington’s Birthday

  • 25 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)

  • 26 Ash Wednesday

  • Prevous month: February

  • Next month: April

March 2020

Significant March holidays:

  • Women’s History Month

  • 8 Daylight Saving Time begins

  • 9 Purim †

  • 15 The Ides of March

  • 17 St. Patrick’s Day

  • 20 Spring begins (EDT) ‡

  • Prevous month: Marh

  • Next month: May

April 2020

Significant April holidays:

  • Poetry Month

  • 1 April Fool’s Day

  • 5 Palm Sunday

  • 10 Good Friday

  • 11 Passover † begins

  • 12 Easter Sunday (Western)

  • 19 Easter Sunday (Orthodox)

  • 24 Ramadan begins †

  • Prevous month: April

  • Next month: June

May 2020

Significant May holidays:

  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

  • 1 May Day

  • 10 Mother’s Day

  • 29 Shavuot begins †/Pentecost

  • 21 Ascension Day

  • 24 Ramadan ends (Eid al-Fitr) †

  • 25 Memorial Day observed

  • Prevous month: May

  • Next month: July

June 2020

Significant June holidays:

  • 14 Flag Day

  • 21 Father’s Day

  • 19 Juneteenth

  • 21 Summer begins (EDT) ‡

  • Prevous month: June

  • Next month: August

July 2020

Significant July holidays:

  • 1 Canada Day

  • 4 Independence Day

  • 31 Eid al-Adha begins †

  • Prevous month: July

  • Next month: September

August 2020

Significant August holidays:

  • 4 Eid al-Adha ends †

  • 31 Muharram † begins

  • Prevous month: August

  • Next month: October

September 2020

Significant September holidays:

  • Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15–Oct. 15)

  • 7 Labor Day

  • 19 Rosh Hashanah † begins

  • 22 Autumn begins (EDT) ‡

  • 28 Yom Kippur †

  • Prevous month: September

  • Next month: November

October 2020

Significant October holidays:

  • 3 Sukkot † begins

  • 10 Shemini Atzeret †

  • 12 Columbus Day/Thanksgiving (Canada)

  • 29 Mawlid al-Nabi †

  • 31 Halloween

  • Prevous month: October

  • Next month: December

November 2020

Significant November holidays:

  • Native American Heritage Month

  • 1 All Saints’ Day

  • 1 Daylight Saving Time ends

  • 11 Veterans Day

  • 14 Diwali

  • 26 Thanksgiving (U.S.)

  • 29 Advent begins

  • Prevous month: November

December 2020

Significant December holidays:

  • 11 Hanukkah begins †
  • 21 Winter begins (EST) ‡
  • 25 Christmas
  • 26 Kwanzaa begins
  • 31 New Year’s Eve

‡ See Seasons for the Northern Hemisphere, for solstices and equinoxes.

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