Browse cultural holidays by region.
Seven regional traditions, each with its own festival calendar, native-language greetings, and visual conventions. Choose a region for a guided tour of its holidays and the countries where they are observed.
South Asia
The festival calendar of the Indian subcontinent — Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and Muslim observances across India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the diaspora.
14 cultural holidays · 16 countriesEast Asia & Pacific
Lunisolar new years, harvest moon festivals, Buddhist observances and water-splashing celebrations across China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Southeast Asia.
5 cultural holidays · 20 countriesMiddle East & North Africa
The Islamic festival calendar — the two Eids, Ramadan, Mawlid — alongside Persian Nowruz and the older observances of the Levant and the Maghreb.
6 cultural holidays · 20 countriesLatin America
Catholic Spanish heritage braided with Indigenous American traditions — Día de los Muertos, the Posadas, Carnival, Quinceañera and the saint's days that anchor every village calendar.
6 cultural holidays · 30 countriesEurope
Saints' days, solstice bonfires, Carnival processions and the long, slow seasonal calendar that has held the continent together for a thousand years.
3 cultural holidays · 17 countriesAfrica
Ethiopian Orthodox feasts, Maghrebi Eids, West African harvest rites, South African Heritage Day, and the diasporic celebration of Kwanzaa.
6 cultural holidays · 9 countriesJewish Diaspora
The Hebrew calendar's fixed cycle of festivals — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, Purim, Passover, Shavuot — observed identically across thousands of miles for two millennia.