Winter Celebrations
This Jewish holiday is known as the Festival of Lights.
What is Hanukkah?
This holiday honors the end of the Islamic holy month and is widely celebrated across Africa.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
This Lunar New Year celebration is the most important holiday in China.
What is the Spring festival?
This Mexican holiday honors ancestors with ofrendas and marigolds.
What is Día de los Muertos?
This Christian holiday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.
What is Easter?
This Afro-Caribbean holiday celebrates African heritage from December 26 to January 1.
What is Kwanzaa?
South Africa celebrates this holiday on April 27 to mark the end of apartheid.
What is Freedom Day?
This Hindu festival of lights symbolizes triumph of light over darkness.
What is Diwali?
This nine-night celebration in Puerto Rico reenacts the journey of Mary and Joseph.
What is Las Posadas?
This Muslim month involves fasting from sunrise to sunset.
What is Ramadan?
This Persian celebration marks the longest night of the year.
What is Yalda Night?
This West African festival celebrates the yam harvest.
What is yam festival?
This Japanese holiday celebrates children on May 5 with carp-shaped flags.
What is Children’s Day (Kodomo no Hi)?
This Brazilian festival is the world’s biggest celebration before Lent.
What is Carnival?
This Sikh holiday honors the birth of Guru Nanak.
What is Gurpurab?
This holiday marks the winter solstice in China and celebrates the return of longer days.
What is the Dongzhi Festival?
This Caribbean holiday celebrates emancipation from slavery, often with parades and cultural traditions.
What is emancipation day?
This Buddhist festival celebrates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Buddha.
What is Vesak?
This Dominican celebration marks the Epiphany and features gift-giving by “Los Reyes.”
What is Día de los Reyes (Three Kings Day)?
This Jewish High Holy Day is known as the Day of Atonement.
What is Yom Kipur?
This Indigenous winter celebration observed by the Hopi and Zuni honors spiritual messengers called kachinas.
What is Soyal?
This Ethiopian and Eritrean celebration marks the beginning of the new year in September.
What is Enkutatash?
This Polynesian festival honors the return of the Pleiades and holds significance in Māori culture.
What is Matariki?
This Peruvian winter solstice festival honors the Incan sun god, Inti.
What is Inti Raymi?
This Bahá’í holiday celebrates the unity of religion and humanity.
What is Naw-Rúz?