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  • Next month: February

January 2021

Significant January holidays:

  • 1 New Year’s Day

  • 6 Epiphany

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

  • Prevous month: January

  • Next month: March

February 2021

Significant February holidays:

  • Black History Month

  • 2 Groundhog Day

  • 12 Chinese New Year

  • 12 Lincoln’s Birthday

  • 14 Valentine’s Day

  • 15 Washington’s Birthday observed

  • 16 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)

  • 17 Ash Wednesday

  • 22 Washington’s Birthday

  • Prevous month: February

  • Next month: April

March 2021

Significant March holidays:

  • Women’s History Month

  • 14 Daylight Saving Time begins

  • 15 The Ides of March

  • 17 St. Patrick’s Day

  • 20 Spring begins (EDT) ‡

  • 26 Purim †

  • 28 Passover † Begins

  • 28 Palm Sunday

  • Prevous month: March

  • Next month: May

April 2021

Significant April holidays:

  • Poetry Month

  • 1 April Fool’s Day

  • 2 Good Friday

  • 4 Easter Sunday (Western)

  • 13 Ramadan begins †

  • Prevous month: April

  • Next month: June

May 2021

Significant May holidays:

  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

  • 1 May Day

  • 2 Easter Sunday (Orthodox)

  • 9 Mother’s Day

  • 13 Ramadan ends (Eid al-Fitr) †

  • 13 Ascension Day

  • 17 Shavuot begins †/Pentecost

  • 31 Memorial Day observed

  • Prevous month: May

  • Next month: July

June 2021

Significant June holidays:

  • 14 Flag Day

  • 19 Juneteenth

  • 20 Father’s Day

  • 21 Summer begins (EDT) ‡

  • Prevous month: June

  • Next month: August

July 2021

Significant July holidays:

  • 1 Canada Day

  • 4 Independence Day

  • 20 Eid al-Adha begins †

  • 24 Eid al-Adha ends †

  • Prevous month: July

  • Next month: September

August 2021

Significant August holidays:

  • 21 Muharram † begins

  • Prevous month: August

  • Next month: October

September 2021

Significant September holidays:

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

  • 6 Labor Day

  • 7 Rosh Hashanah † begins

  • 16 Yom Kippur †

  • 22 Autumn begins (EDT) ‡

  • Prevous month: September

  • Next month: November

October 2021

Significant October holidays:

  • 3 Sukkot † begins

  • 11 Columbus Day/Thanksgiving (Canada)

  • 19 Mawlid al-Nabi †

  • 28 Shemini Atzeret †

  • 31 Halloween

  • Prevous month: October

  • Next month: December

November 2021

Significant November holidays:

  • Native American Heritage Month

  • 1 All Saints’ Day

  • 4 Diwali

  • 7 Daylight Saving Time ends

  • 11 Veterans Day

  • 25 Thanksgiving (U.S.)

  • 28 Advent begins

  • 29 Hanukkah begins †

  • Prevous month: November

December 2021

Significant December holidays:

  • 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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