NOTABLE UK DATES AND RELIGIOUS CALENDARS 2024

BANK HOLIDAYS

New Year’s Day - 1 January

Good Friday - 29 March

Easter Monday - 1 April

Early May Bank Holiday - 6 May

Spring Bank Holiday - 27 May

Summer Bank Holiday - 26 August

Christmas Day - 25 December

Boxing Day - 26 December

NOTABLE DATES

Burns Night (Scotland) Jan 25th

Chinese New Year Feb 10th

 Shrove Tuesday Feb 13th

St Valentines Day Feb 14th

St Davids Day March 1st

 Mothering Sunday March 10th

Commonwealth Day March 11th

St Patricks Day (Ireland) March 17th

 British Summertime Commences March 31st.

St Georges Day April 23rd

Father’s Day June 16th

Longest Day June 20th

British Summertime Ends October 27th

Halloween October 31st

Remembrance Sunday November 10th

St Andrews Day November 30th

Shortest Day December 21st

CHRISTIAN/WESTERN

Epiphany Jan 6th

Ash Wednesday Feb 14th

Palm Sunday March 24th

Good Friday March 29th

Easter Sunday March 31st

Ascension Day (Holy Thursday) May 9th

Whit Sunday (Pentecost) May 19th

Trinity Sunday May 26th

Advent Sunday Dec 1st

Christmas Day 25th December

Boxing Day 26th December

ISLAMIC

First Day of Ramadan March 11th

Eid Al-Fitr April 9th

Eid Al-Adha June 16th

Islamic New Year July 8th

HINDU

Holi March 25th

Navratri October 3rd

Diwali November 12th

JEWISH

First Day of Passover April 23rd

Feast Of Weeks (Shavuot) June 12th

Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashannah) October 2nd

Day Of Atonement (Yom Kippur) October 12th

SIKH

Guru Gobind Singh Birthday Jan 17th

Vaisakhi April 13th

Guru Angad Dev April 18th

Martyrdom Of Guru June 16th

Birth Of Guru Granth October 20th

Diwali November 1st

• Many religious festivals are determined by an actual sighting of the appropriate new moon, and may also begin at sunset on the previous evening

• Some festivals may appear twice in the same year