Latin Festivals in New York City include: national days, faith days, parades, and street fairs. Christmas and Carnival are the world’s most popular Latin festivals. We don’t represent any religion. Tolerance is part of being a New Yorker. We see our common humanity in all faiths.
National Dominican Day Parade 2024 Kick-Off Celebrates Bronx Dominican Heritage
SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2024 is America’s Largest Cultural Celebration ~ Yo soy Boricua…
FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown, Midtown East, Central Park, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷
Cinco de Mayo in New York City 2024
¡Viva México! 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Holi is the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors and Love
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 🇮🇳
Harlem Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future Conference at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Feast of Saint Joseph Celebrates the Husband of Mary, and is Latin Father’s and Stepfather’s Day
MARCH 19 🇧🇴 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇿 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Palm Sunday Starts Holy Week
SPRING ✝️
Spring Festivals in New York City
Moveable Festivals
Lunar New Year is January 29, 2025, Year of the Snake. ☯️
Carnival Tuesday (Fat Tuesday) is March 4, 2025. ✝️
Ramadan is March 10 – April 8, 2024. Laylat al-Qadr is April 6, 2024. Eid al-Fitr is April 9, 2024. ☪️
Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter are March 24-31, 2024. ✝️ ☦️
Passover is April 22-30, 2024. ✡️
March Festivals
March is Women’s History Month. 🇺🇸
Saint Patrick’s Day is March 17. 🇮🇪
Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere is between March 19-21.
April Festivals
International Romani Day is April 8.
NYC Immigrant Heritage Week is the week with April 17, the day when the most immigrants passed through Ellis Island.
Earth Day celebrates the founding of the Environmental Movement in 1970.
May Festivals
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. 🇺🇸
International Workers Day is May 1.
Cinco de Mayo is May 5. 🇲🇽
Mother’s Day in the USA is the 2nd Sunday in May.
George Floyd Day is May 25. 🇺🇸
Memorial Day is the last Monday in May. 🇺🇸
Summer Festivals in New York City
June Festivals
June is Pride Month. 🏳️🌈
National Puerto Rican Day Parade is the second Sunday in June. 🇵🇷
Father’s Day in the USA is the third Sunday in June. 🇺🇸
Juneteenth celebrates the legal end of human slavery in the USA on June 19, 1865. 🇺🇸
Mother Earth has the Northern Summer Solstice (and Southern Winter Solstice), the longest day (longest night) of the year, on June 20 or 21.
French celebrate la Fête de la Musique with street music all night long on the northern summer solstice. 🇫🇷
The Latin world celebrates Saint John’s Eve by jumping over bonfires at midnight on June 23.
The Catholic Feast of St John the Baptist, a forerunner of Christ, is June 24. 🇮🇹
Andean communities in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, celebrate Inti Raymi, Inca New Year, on June 24. 🇵🇪 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇦🇷
Haitians celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, patron saint of Haiti, on June 27. 🇭🇹
National Ceviche Day is June 28. 🇺🇸
The LGBTQ+ community commemorates the Stonewall Riots that energized the Pride Movement on June 28.
Cubans and Puerto Ricans celebrate Ogun, the Yoruba orisha of iron, on June 29. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
July Festivals
US Independence Day is July 4. 🇺🇸
August Festivals
Ecuadorian Independence Day is August 10. 🇪🇨
Indian Independence Day is August 15. 🇮🇳
National Dominican Day Parade is the second Sunday in August. 🇩🇴
Dominican Restoration Day is August 16, 1863. 🇩🇴
Uruguayan Independence Day is Friday, August 25, 2023. 🇺🇾
Fall Festivals in New York City
Moveable Festivals
Mid-Autumn Festival, the East Asian harvest festival, is September 17, 2024. ☯️
Yom Kippur is October 11-12, 2024. ✡️
Diwali is October 29 to November 3, 2024. 🕉️
Thanksgiving is November 28, 2024. 🇺🇸
September Festivals
Brazilian Day is usually the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. 🇧🇷
Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 – October 15.
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September 15 is:
- Costa Rican Independence Day. 🇨🇷
- Guatemalan Independence Day. 🇬🇹
- Honduran Independence Day. 🇭🇳
- Nicaraguan Independence Day. 🇳🇮
- Salvadoran Independence Day. 🇸🇻
Mexican Independence Day is September 16. 🇲🇽
The Cuban Yoruba festival of Obatalá is September 24. 🇨🇺
Broadway Musicals Day celebrates the diversity of Broadway musicals on September 29.
National Coffee Day is September 29.
The Feast of Archangel Michael (Michaelmas) is September 29. 🇮🇹
October Festivals
International Coffee Day celebrates the beloved Ethiopian drink on October 1. 🇪🇹
The Feast of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy, animals, and ecology, is October 4. 🇮🇹
Second Monday in October is:
- Indigenous Peoples Day
- Italian Heritage Day (formerly
Columbus Day). 🇮🇹
Spain’s National Day (la Fiesta Nacional de España) is October 12. 🇪🇸
The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima is October 13. 🇵🇹
Hispanic Heritage Month ends on October 15.
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National Pasta Day is October 17. 🇮🇹
International Creole Day is October 28.
The Feast of St Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of hopeless causes, is October 28.
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the Mexican family celebration of life is October 31 – November 2. 🇲🇽
November Festivals
November is:
- Puerto Rican Heritage Month. 🇵🇷
- American Indian Heritage Month. 🇺🇸
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the Mexican family celebration of life, is Thursday, November 2, 2023. 🇲🇽
Veterans Day is Saturday, November 11, 2023. The bank holiday is Friday, November 10, 2023. 🇺🇸
Diwali, the West Indian and South Asian festival of lights, and Hindu New Year, Sunday-Thursday, November 12-16, 2023. The peak is November 15. (Indians are Latin through the Caribbean.) 🇮🇳🇹🇹
Moroccan Independence Day is November 18. 🇲🇦
Thanksgiving Day, the U.S. harvest festival and celebration of family, is Thursday, November 23, 2023. 🇺🇸
Native American Heritage Day is Friday, November 24, 2023. 🇺🇸
Winter Festivals in New York City
Moveable Festivals
Hanukkah is December 25, 2024 to January 2, 2025. 🕎
December Festivals
Día de las Velitas, the Colombian festival of lights in anticipation of the church’s acceptance of the Immaculate Conception, is Thursday, December 7, 2023. 🇨🇴
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception marking the church’s acceptance of the divinity and equality of women, is Friday, December 8, 2023. 🇮🇹
International Tango Day is Carlos Gardel’s birthday on Monday, December 11, 2023. 🇦🇷🇫🇷🇺🇾
Las Mañanitas a nuestra Virgen de Guadalupe, Guadalupe’s traditional birthday eve celebration, is Monday, December 11, 2023. 🇲🇽
The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico and icon of our mixed Latin identity, is Tuesday, December 12, 2023. 🇲🇽
The Feast of Babalú-Ayé, Cuban Yoruba orisha of sickness and healing, is Sunday, December 17, 2023. 🇨🇺
National Sangria Day celebrates the Iberian summer punch on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. 🇵🇹🇪🇸
Northern Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, and ancient root of the northern winter holidays, is Thursday, December 21, 2023.
The Feast of Huitzilopochtli honors the supreme Mixtéc god on Thursday, December 21, 2023. 🇲🇽
Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is Sunday, December 18 – Monday, December 26, 2023. 🕎
Christmas Eve is Sunday, December 24, 2023. 🇮🇹
Christmas, the Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, is Monday, December 25, 2023. 🇮🇹
Kwanzaa, the African American holiday tradition, is December 26 – January 1. 🇺🇸
New Year’s Eve is December 31. 🇮🇹
Watch Night, the African American tradition of spending New Year’s Eve in church, waiting for the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, on December 31.
January Festivals
New Year’s Day is January 1. 🇮🇹
Kwanzaa, the African American holiday celebration ends with a focus on “Imani” (faith) on January 1. 🇺🇸
Haitian Independence Day, one of the world’s greatest humanitarian achievements, is January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹
Emancipation Proclamation said “all persons…shall henceforward shall be free” of January 1, 1863. 🇺🇸
Letra del año (Letter of the Year) is a Cuban Yoruba forecast of the year. 🇨🇺
Sudanese Independence Day is January 1, 1956. 🇸🇩
Solemnity of Mary honors mothers and children on January 1. 🇮🇹
Three Kings Day, the Hispanic gift-giving day and end of Christmas Season, is January 6! 🇵🇷🇪🇸
Three Kings Day Parade is on or around January 6.
Elegúa, the Yoruba orisha of the crossroads, has his Cuban feast day on January 6. ¡Aché! 🇨🇺
Carnival gets going on Kings Day, Twelfth Night, January 6.
Las Octavitas, the octave (8-day celebration) of Three Kings Day, is celebrated in Puerto Rico, January 7-14. 🇵🇷
Martin Luther King’s birthday is January 15. 🇺🇸
Martin Luther King Day, the U.S. holiday, is the third Monday in January. 🇺🇸
La Virgen de la Altagracia, patron saint of the Dominican Republic, is celebrated on January 21. 🇩🇴
Dominican Heritage Month is January 21 – February 27. 🇩🇴
India Republic Day is January 26, 1950. (Indians are Latin in the Caribbean.) 🇮🇳
Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27, 1945. ✡️
February Festivals
February is Black History Month. 🇺🇸
Our Lady of Candelaria, patron saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and the African Diaspora is celebrated on February 2. 🇪🇸
Maman Brigitte, the Haitian Loa of death and life, is celebrated on February 2. 🇭🇹
Grenada Independence Day is February 7, 1974. 🇬🇩
Our Lady of Lourdes, the healing Marian apparition, is celebrated on February 11. 🇫🇷
Lunar New Year Parade NYC 2023 has dragons dancing through Manhattan Chinatown to the Lower East Side on Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 1pm. FREE! 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
Celebrate Galentines Day on Monday, February 13, 2023! You have everything you need, right inside your chest.
Celebrate Valentines Day, and the Roman saints conflated with romantic love, on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. 🇮🇹
Celebrate Las Comadres (Thursday before Carnival Tuesday), a women’s Carnival gathering in Asturia, Spain; Cochabamba & Tarija, Bolivia; and Arequipa, Peru. 🇪🇸🇧🇴🇵🇪
Celebrate Presidents Day (George Washington & Abraham Lincoln) on Monday, February 20, 2023. 🇺🇸
Celebrate Carnival (Carnival Tuesday/Mardi Gras) on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
Saint Lucian Independence Day on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. 🇱🇨
National Margarita Day is February 22. 🇲🇽
Dominican Independence Day is February 27, 1844. ¡Quisqueya! 🇩🇴