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Latin Festivals in New York City

New York celebrates many Latin Festivals including: parades, street fairs, independence days, and faith days.

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Christmas and Carnival are the world’s most popular Latin festivals. Winter Solstice is the most important human festival. It belongs to everyone.

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Junta Hispana 2023 is a Family Festival of Latin Culture in Queens

Around a quarter million people enjoy this casual festival of Latin food, music, dance, beauty, and folklore from 20 Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.

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Latin Festival Schedule

Some festivals are based on lunar or cultural calendars.

  • Lunar New Year 2024 is February 10, 2024.
  • Carnival Tuesday 2024 is February 13, 2024.
  • Ramadan 2024 starts on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
  • Easter 2024 is Sunday, March 31, 2024.
  • Diwali 2023 starts Sunday, November 12, 2023. 🇮🇳
  • Hanukkah 2023 starts Friday, December 15, 2023. 🕎

January Latin 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. 🇭🇹

The Emancipation Proclamation says “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. 🇸🇩

The 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! 🇵🇷🇪🇸

Elegúa, the Yoruba orisha of the crossroads, has his Cuban feast day on January 6. ¡Aché! 🇨🇺

Las Octavitas, the octave (8-day celebration) of Three Kings Day, celebrated in Puerto Rico, January 7-14. 🇵🇷

Martin Luther King’s Birthday is January 15. 🇺🇸

Martin Luther King Day U.S. holiday is Monday, January 16, 2023 (third Monday). 🇺🇸

Celebrate the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, patron saint of the Dominican Republic, on Saturday, January 21, 2023. 🇩🇴

New York State celebrates Dominican Heritage Month from Saturday, January 21 – February 27. 🇩🇴

Celebrate Lunar New Year 2023, the Asian spring festival, on Sunday, January 22, 2023. 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸

The Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival 2023 is a firecracker lighting ceremony with Chinese dance, culture, and food; at Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Grand St, in the Lower East Side / Manhattan Chinatown; on Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 11am – 3:30pm. FREE! 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸

Celebrate India Republic Day, January 26, 1950. (Indians are Latin in the Caribbean.) 🇮🇳

Never forget the UN’s Holocaust Remembrance Day when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by Soviet troops and the world could no longer deny the Holocaust (Shoah), on January 27, 1945. ✡️

February Latin Festivals

February is Black History Month. 🇺🇸

Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Candelaria, patron saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and the African Diaspora on Thursday, February 2, 2023. 🇪🇸

Celebrate Maman Brigitte, the Haitian Loa of death and life, on Thursday, February 2, 2023. 🇭🇹

Celebrate Grenada Independence Day, February 7, 1974. 🇬🇩

Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the healing Marian apparition, on Saturday, February 11, 2023. 🇫🇷

The 25th 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.

Celebrate Saint Lucian Independence Day on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. 🇱🇨

Celebrate National Margarita Day on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. 🇲🇽

Celebrate Dominican Independence Day, February 27, 1844. ¡Quisqueya! 🇩🇴

March Latin Festivals

March is Women’s History Month. 🇺🇸

St Patrick’s Day is Friday, March 17, 2023. 🇮🇪

Spring Equinox is Monday, March 20, 2023.

April Latin Festivals

Holy Week 2023 is Monday-Saturday, April 3-8, 2023 (varies). 🇮🇹

Passover 2023 is Wednesday-Thursday, April 5-13, 2023 (varies). ✡️

Maundy Thursday is April 6, 2023 (varies). 🇮🇹

Good Friday is April 7, 2023 (varies). 🇮🇹

Easter Sunday is April 9, 2023 (varies). 🇮🇹

May Latin Festivals

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. 🇺🇸

International Workers Day is May 1.

Cinco de Mayo is May 5. 🇲🇽

Mother’s Day 2023 in the USA is Sunday, May 14 (2nd Sunday).

George Floyd Day is May 25. 🇺🇸

Memorial Day 2023 U.S. holiday is Monday, May 29 (last Monday). 🇺🇸

June Latin Festivals

June is Pride Month. 🏳️‍🌈

Americans celebrate Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June. 🇺🇸

Americans celebrate Juneteenth, the end of human slavery in the U.S.A on June 19. 🇺🇸

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 Latin Festivals

US Independence Day is July 4. 🇺🇸

August Latin Festivals

Ecuadorian Independence Day is August 10. 🇪🇨

Indian Independence Day is August 15. 🇮🇳

Dominican Restoration Day is August 16. 🇩🇴

Uruguayan Independence Day is Friday, August 25, 2023. 🇺🇾

September Latin 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:

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 Latin 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:

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 Latin Festivals

November is:

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. 🇺🇸

December Latin 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 Aztec 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 Tuesday, December 27, 2022 – Sunday, January 1, 2023. 🇺🇸

New Year’s Eve is Sunday, December 31, 2023. 🇮🇹

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.