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Latin Festivals
Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.
Brazilian Independence Day is Sete de Setembro
IPIRANGA BROOK, São Paulo, Brazil, September 7, 1822 🇧🇷
Our Lady of Regla is a Catholic Yemayá
REGLA, Havana, Cuba 🇨🇺
Central American Independence Parade and Festival is a Honduran Garífuna Celebration in The Bronx
HAPPY LAND MEMORIAL MONUMENT to CROTONA PARK, Crotona Park East, The Bronx 🇭🇳
Labor Day Weekend in New York City 2024
Celebrate organized labor.
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Trinidad Carnival 2025 is the Mother of Caribbean Carnival
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹
West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn on Labor Day Celebrates Evolution as the Climax of New York Carnival
EASTERN PARKWAY, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇹🇹 + 🇩🇲 🇬🇩 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🇰🇳 🇻🇨
Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
Learn Carnival traditions and times, some famous Carnivals, best places to see it in the Americas, and how to enjoy Carnival safely.
Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían 2025 (Sanse) is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival
CALLE SAN SEBASTÍAN, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Queens Hispanic Parade 2024 Desfile Hispano de Queens
37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
Queenship of Mary Recognizes the Divinity of Women
August 22
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Should Never be Forgotten
August 23 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Uruguayan Independence Day is August 25, 1825
August 25, 1825 🇺🇾
The Haitian Revolution was One of the Greatest Human Rights Achievements of All Time
August 22, 1791 🇭🇹
Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” That Launched the Dominican War of Restoration
August 16, 1863 🇩🇴
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is BK’s Free Outdoor Summer Festival
Afropunk Black Music Festival ~ Erykah Badu, Larissa Luz 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇸🇩
LENA HORNE BANDSHELL, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Assumption of Mary Commemorates the Virgin Mary’s Traditional Death
August 15 🇮🇹
Indian Independence Day in New York City
August 15, 1947 🇮🇳
India Day Parade and Food Festival Celebrates Indian Independence
MADISON AVENUE to MADISON SQUARE PARK, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, NoMad, Manhattan 🇮🇳
Ecuadorian Independence Day Celebrations in New York City Include the Ecuadorian Parade and Ecuadorian Festival
August 10, 1809 🇪🇨
Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On
AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
National Dominican Day Parade 2024 Celebrates Merengue
SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴
Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem
GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Augustus Caesar Renamed the Month of August After Himself
AUGUST 🇮🇹
Harlem Week Celebrates Black Culture in the Home of the Harlem Renaissance Which Defined American Culture
HARLEM, CENTRAL PARK, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Black August is a Celebration of Freedom
AUGUST 🇺🇸
Pachamama is the Andean New Year Celebration of Mother Earth
AUGUST 1 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪
Puerto Rico Constitution Day is a Great Time to Visit Puerto Rico
JULY 25 🇵🇷
The Feast of St James Celebrates the Patron Saint of Spain Guatemala and Loíza Aldea Puerto Rico
JULY 25 🇪🇸 🇬🇹 🇵🇷
St Christopher is the Traditional Patron Saint of Travelers
JULY 25 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸
Aggayú Solá is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Flowing Forces of Nature
JULY 25 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Bronx Dominican Parade es el Gran Parada Dominicana de el Bronx, Quisqueya
GRAND CONCOURSE, Concourse, Claremont, Mount Hope, The Bronx 🇩🇴
Peruvian Parade and Peruvian Festival in Paterson New Jersey is a Gran Desfile y Festival Peruano
PASSAIC, CLIFTON, and PATERSON New Jersey 🇵🇪
Buck Moon is the July Full Moon
MOTHER EARTH
Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano Celebrates Colombian Independence in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇨🇴
Bastille Day in New York City
FIAF Bastille Celebration, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇫🇷
SummerStage 🇫🇷
PARIS, France 🇫🇷
Giglio Feast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Church is an Italian Street Fair with Giglio Dancing
SHRINE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇮🇹
L’Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration is a Street Fair of French Culture
MADISON AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇫🇷
Ecuadorian Parade of New York Desfile Ecuatoriano Celebrates Ecuadorian Culture
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇪🇨
Festival de las Flores is New York’s Version of Medellín’s Feria de las Flores
37th AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇨🇴
Our Lady of Chiquinquirá is the Patron Saint of Colombia
CHIQUINQUIRÁ, Boyacá, Colombia 🇨🇴
Argentine Independence Day is Nueve de Julio!
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina 🇦🇷
Fourth of July in New York City is U.S. Independence Day
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1776 🇺🇸
Ogun is the Yoruba Orisha of Metals, Technology, Drivers, and Rum, ¡Aguanile!
JANUARY 29 Cuban tradition (Regla de Ocha) 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
JUNE 29 African tradition (Regla de Ifá) 🇧🇯 🇳🇬 🇹🇬
Stonewall Uprising at the Stonewall Inn Energized the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights
STONEWALL INN, West Village, Manhattan 🏳️🌈
NYC Pride Parade, NYC PrideFest, Bliss Days, and More Highlights of New York City’s Big LGBTQ+ Festival
FIFTH AVENUE, 8TH ST, CHRISTOPHER ST, SEVENTH AVENUE, NoMad, Flatiron, Union Square, Greenwich Village, West Village, Chelsea 🏳️🌈
Saint John’s Eve, La Noche de San Juan, or Festa Junina, is the Latin Midsummer / Midwinter Festival
JUNE 23 🇧🇷 🇵🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Feast of Saint John the Baptist Marks Midsummer or Midwinter
JUNE 24 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Inti Raymi is Inca New Year
JUNE 24 🇵🇪
Queens Dominican Day Parade Marches Through Jackson Heights
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇩🇴