Holidays in January 2027

January 1st, 2027

Polar Bear Plunge Day

Second day of Hogmanay (Scotland) December 31-January 1, in some cases until January 2.

The last day of Kwanzaa (African-Americans)

Euro Day (European Union)

Global Family Day

International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day

Jump-up Day (Montserrat)

Kalpataru Day (Ramakrishna Movement)

Holidays on January 1st, 2027 »

January 2nd, 2027

Berchtold's Day (Switzerland)

Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa)

The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7 (Colombia)

Holidays on January 2nd, 2027 »

January 18th, 2027

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Holidays on January 18th, 2027 »

January 29th, 2027

National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day

Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

Holidays on January 29th, 2027 »

January 30th, 2027

National Inane Answering Message Day

Day of Saudade (Brazil)

Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia)

Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: Martyrs' Day (India)

Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: Start of the Season for Nonviolence (January 30 – April 4)

Holidays on January 30th, 2027 »

January 31st, 2027

Hell is Freezing Over Day

Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)

Independence Day (Nauru), celebrates independence from Australia in 1968.

Street Children's Day (Austria)

Holidays on January 31st, 2027 »

January 3rd, 2027

Festival of Sleep Day

Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan)

Holidays on January 3rd, 2027 »

January 14th, 2027

National Dress Up Your Pet Day

Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

Defender of the Motherland Day (Uzbekistan)

Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity)

Old New Year, and its related observance: Azhyrnykhua (Abkhazia)

Old New Year, and its related observance: Yennayer (Berbers)

Ratification Day (United States)

Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Magh Bihu (Assam)

Holidays on January 14th, 2027 »

January 24th, 2027

National Beer Can Appreciation Day

Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (Romania)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances: Feria de Alasitas (La Paz)

Uttar Pradesh Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)

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National Girl Child Day (India)

Holidays on January 24th, 2027 »

January 28th, 2027

National Fun at Work Day

Army Day (Armenia)

Data Privacy Day

Holidays on January 28th, 2027 »

January 4th, 2027

Independence Day (Myanmar), celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.

Colonial Martyrs Repression Day (Angola)

Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)

Tokyo Dome Show: The annual Wrestle Kingdom event run by New Japan Pro-Wrestling

World Braille Day

Holidays on January 4th, 2027 »

January 21st, 2027

Babinden (Bulgaria, Serbia)

Errol Barrow Day (Barbados)

Flag Day (Quebec)

Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)

Lincoln Alexander Day (Canada)

National Hugging Day (United States)

Holidays on January 21st, 2027 »

January 5th, 2027

Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)

Joma Shinji (Japan)

The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity)

Holidays on January 5th, 2027 »

January 6th, 2027

Christmas: Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Christmas: Christmas Eve (Ukraine)

Christmas: Christmas Eve (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Epiphany or Three Kings' Day (Western Christianity) or Theophany (Eastern Christianity), and its related observances: Befana Day (Italy)

Holidays on January 6th, 2027 »

January 7th, 2027

Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari) Christmas in Russia

Distaff Day (medieval Europe)

Nanakusa-no sekku (Japan)

Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)

Holidays on January 7th, 2027 »

January 8th, 2027

Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Typing Day (International observance)

Holidays on January 8th, 2027 »

January 9th, 2027

Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)

Martyrs' Day (Panama)

Non-Resident Indian Day (India)

Day of Republika Srpska (Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, result of 2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum) (note: not celebrated and disputed in wider Bosnia and Herzegovina, having been declared unconstitutional i...

Holidays on January 9th, 2027 »

January 10th, 2027

Fête du Vodoun (Benin)

Margaret Thatcher Day (Falkland Islands)

Holidays on January 10th, 2027 »

January 11th, 2027

Eugenio María de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)

Kagami biraki (Japan)

Republic Day (Albania)

Carmentalia (January 11th and January 15th) (Rome)

Prithvi Jayanti (Nepal)

Holidays on January 11th, 2027 »

January 12th, 2027

Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)

National Youth Day (India)

Holidays on January 12th, 2027 »

January 13th, 2027

Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, North Macedonia), and its related observances: Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)

Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14): Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)

Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)

Holidays on January 13th, 2027 »

January 15th, 2027

Armed Forces Remembrance Day (Nigeria)

Army Day (India)

Korean Alphabet Day (North Korea)

Sagichō at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū. (Kamakura, Japan)

Black Christ of Esquipulas day

The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India (see January 14): Thai Pongal, Tamil harvest festival

Holidays on January 15th, 2027 »

January 16th, 2027

National Religious Freedom Day (United States)

Holidays on January 16th, 2027 »

January 17th, 2027

The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras, Greece)

Holidays on January 17th, 2027 »

January 19th, 2027

Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance: Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi)

Husband's Day (Iceland)

Kokborok Day (Tripura, India)

Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances: Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox)

Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances: Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (North Macedonia)

Holidays on January 19th, 2027 »

January 20th, 2027

Presidential inaugurations (United States)

Holidays on January 20th, 2027 »

January 22nd, 2027

Day of Unity of Ukraine (Ukraine)

Holidays on January 22nd, 2027 »

January 23rd, 2027

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India)

World Freedom Day (Taiwan and South Korea)

Holidays on January 23rd, 2027 »

January 25th, 2027

Betico Day (Aruba)

Burns Night (Scotland)

National Police Day (Egypt)

National Voters' Day (India)

Tatiana Day or Russian Students Day (Russia, Eastern Orthodox)

Holidays on January 25th, 2027 »

January 26th, 2027

Australia Day (Australia)

Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

Republic Day (India)

Holidays on January 26th, 2027 »

January 27th, 2027

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Memorial Day (Italy)

Holidays on January 27th, 2027 »

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