ARCAHAIE, Ouest, Haiti ~ MAY 18, 1803 🇭🇹
Latin Festivals
Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.
Dance Parade 2025 is Once Again About Reclaiming the Freedom to Be Yourself
SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
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Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More
THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Mother’s Day in New York City and Around the World Started as a Celebration of Peace
SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇺🇪🇨🇭🇳🇮🇹🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪
Cinco de Mayo in New York City 2025
MAY 5 🇲🇽
Easter is the Christian Spring Festival
SPRING ✝️
Good Friday is a Christian Commemoration of the Crucifixion of Christ
FRIDAY before Easter ✝️
Malbec World Day Celebrates the Argentine Wine with French Roots
APRIL 17 🇦🇷
Chavela Vargas Didn’t Just Sing Rancheras, She Lived Them
SAN JOAQUÍN FLORES, Heredia, Costa Rica ~ April 17, 1919 🇲🇽
Easter Parade NYC 2025 is a Spring Spectacle
FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown, Midtown East, Manhattan
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2025 is America’s Biggest Cultural Celebration
FIFTH AVENUE, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷
Holy Week (Semana Santa) is the Christian Spring Festival
SPRING ✝️
Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival, Celebrates Freedom from Slavery
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NYC Immigrant Heritage Week Celebrates When the Most Immigrants Passed Through Ellis Island in 1907
WEEK OF APRIL 17 🗽
Annunciation is a Christian Festival Celebrating the Biblical Story of an Angel Telling the Virgin Mary She Would Give Birth
MARCH 25 🇮🇹
Laylat al-Qadr is a Night to Focus on Your Future
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Purim Celebrates Deliverance as Told in the Book of Esther
WORLDWIDE ✡️
Worm Moon is an Algonquin Native American Name for the March Full Moon
MARCH
Holi, the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors, is All About Loving
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 🇮🇳
International Women’s Day 2025 Remember That a Woman of Conscience Was the First to Call Out America’s McCarthy Fever
March 8
Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
Worldwide
Ramadan is the Muslim Sacred Month of Faith, Family, Community, and Charity
EVERYWHERE YOU CAN SEE THE MOON ☪️
Women’s History Month Celebrates the Guardians of Culture
March
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Valentines Day in New York City Celebrates Romantic Love ~ or Freedom From It
February 14 🇮🇹
Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of the African Diaspora; Tenerife, Canary Islands; and Miners
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain 🇪🇸 > 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷
Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea
February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷
Oyá is the Yoruba Orisha of Great Storms with Wind and Lightning that Bring Death and Rebirth
February 2 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
October 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
Lunar New Year in New York City 2025 is the Year of the Snake
East Asian and Southeast Asian Diaspora Communities 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Us to Love All People
ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸
Haitian Independence Day Marks One of the Great Humanitarian Achievements of All Time
January 1, 1804 🇭🇹
Three Kings Day in New York City 2025
January 6 🇩🇴 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇺🇾 ~ 🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸
Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2025 Marches Through El Barrio
“El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷
New Year’s Eve 2025 in New York City
DECEMBER 31 🇫🇷
Virgin of Guadalupe is the Patron Saint of Mexico and Multiracial People
BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, Cerro del Tepeyac, México City, México 🇲🇽
Día de las Velitas is the Colombian Festival of Lights
December 7 🇨🇴
Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas,” Inspired the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
NOVEMBER 25, 1960 🇩🇴
Portugal Restoration of Independence Day Ended the Iberian Union
December 1, 1640 🇵🇹
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Latin Stars Include Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man, Natti Natasha, and Sebastián Yatra
UPPER WEST SIDE, MIDTOWN, HERALD SQUARE 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇬🇧 🇻🇪
Saint Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Musicians
November 22 🇮🇹
Our Lady of Providence is the Patron Saint of Puerto Rico
November 19 🇵🇷
Thanksgiving in New York City is Family Time
4th November Thursday through the weekend 🇺🇸
Veterans Day in New York City
NOVEMBER 11, 1918 🇺🇸
Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, is a Pan-Latin Family Celebration Whose Mexican Tradition Has Gone Global
OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2 🇲🇽
Day of the Dead Parade in Mexico City was Founded After Tourists Showed up Looking for the Parade They Saw in James Bond “Spectre”
MEXICO CITY, Mexico 🇲🇽
All Souls Day is a Day to Tend Family Graves
NOVEMBER 2 ~ We remember our ancestors and tend family graves.
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All Saints Day, Día de los Inocentes, Honors All Saints and the Souls of Family Children
NOVEMBER 1 ~ The European festival of all saints known and unknown, is Día de los Inocentes in Mexico, the day during the Day of the Dead festival when souls of family children may visit, if they are invited.
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Native American Heritage Month is November, and We Are Still Here
NOVEMBER 🇺🇸
Fèt Gede is the Beautiful Haitian Festival of the Dead
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 🇭🇹
Diwali is Celebrated in NYC’s South Asian and West Indian Communities
HK HALL, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan
ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, Financial District, Manhattan
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SEAPORT MUSEUM, Seaport, Manhattan
FLUSHING TOWN HALL, Flushing, Queens
LIBERTY AVE, South Ozone Park, Queens
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Jackson Heights Halloween Parade is Fun for Young Children
37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🎃