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This is an incomplete list of festivals and holidays that take place during the winter in the northern hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of the equator?the word sphere literally means 'half sphere'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator....
, especially those commemorating the season
Winter holiday season

"Christmas season" redirects here. For other uses, see Christmas season .In the Northern Hemisphere, the Christmas season or holiday season is a late-year season that surrounds the Christmas holiday as well as other holidays during the November/December timeframe....
. Many festivals of light take place in this period since the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere is the Winter Solstice
Winter solstice

Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
.

Holidays are listed in chronological order under each heading.








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This is an incomplete list of festivals and holidays that take place during the winter in the northern hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of the equator?the word sphere literally means 'half sphere'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator....
, especially those commemorating the season
Winter holiday season

"Christmas season" redirects here. For other uses, see Christmas season .In the Northern Hemisphere, the Christmas season or holiday season is a late-year season that surrounds the Christmas holiday as well as other holidays during the November/December timeframe....
. Many festivals of light take place in this period since the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere is the Winter Solstice
Winter solstice

Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
.

Holidays are listed in chronological order under each heading.

Buddhist

  • Bodhi Day
    Bodhi Day

    Bodhi Day , traditionally the 8th day of the 12th lunar month , has been observed on December 8th in Japan since the Meiji Restoration . It is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni or Gautama, experienced Enlightenment , also known as Bodhi in Sanskrit or Pali....
    : 8 December - Day of Enlightenment, celebrating the day that the historical Buddha (Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Guatama) experienced enlightenment (also known as Bodhi).


Celtic

  • Samhain
    Samhain

    Samhain is a festival on the end of the harvest season in Gaels and Britons cultures, with aspects of a festival of the dead. Many scholars believe that it was the beginning of the Celtic year....
    : 1 November - first day of winter in the Celtic calendar (and Celtic New Year's Day)
  • Winter Solstice
    Winter solstice

    Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
    : 21 December-22 December - midwinter
  • Imbolc
    Imbolc

    Imbolc is one of the four principal festivals of the Irish calendar, celebrated among Gaels peoples and some other Celts cultures, either at the beginning of February or at the first local signs of Spring ....
    : 1 February - first day of spring in the Celtic calendar


Chinese

  • Dong zhi: Winter solstice
    Winter solstice

    Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
  • Signature of the Constitution of the Republic of China
    Constitution of the Republic of China

    The Constitution of the Republic of China is the fundamental law of the Republic of China , with jurisdiction over Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu ....
     (Taiwan
    Republic of China

    The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
    ): 25 December - a secular national holiday, which due to its date is celebrated in some respects like Christmas
  • Chinese New Year
    Chinese New Year

    Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often called the Lunar New Year, especially by people in mainland China and Taiwan....
    : (late January - early February) - considered the end of winter in the traditional Chinese calendar


Christian

  • Advent
    Advent

    Advent is a Liturgical year of the Christianity, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus; in other words, the period immediately before Christmas....
    : four weeks prior to Christmas.
  • Saint Nicholas
    Saint Nicholas

    Saint Nicholas is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a saint and Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker....
    ' Day    : 6 December
  • Christmas Eve
    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve, December 24, is the night before Christmas Day, which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ ....
    : 24 December
  • Christmas
    Christmas

    Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
    : 25 December - Due to a fourth century arrangement to offset the pagan Roman Saturnalia festival, the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25.
  • 12 Days of Christmas
    Twelve Days of Christmas

    The Twelve Days of Christmas, and the associated evenings of those twelve days , are the festive days beginning on Christmas Day through to the evening of the Twelfth Day of Christmas, ....
    : 25 December through 6 January
  • Saint Stephen
    Saint Stephen

    Saint Stephen , known as the Protomartyr of Christianity, is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches....
    's Day    : 26 December
  • Saint John the Evangelist's Day: 27 December
  • Holy Innocents' Day: 28 December
  • Saint Sylvester's Day: 31 December
  • Watch Night: 31 December
  • Feast of the Circumcision: 1 January
  • Feast of Fools
    Feast of Fools

    The Feast of Fools, known also as the festum fatuorum, festum stultorum, festum hypodiaconorum, or f?te des fous, are the varying names given to popular medieval festivals regularly celebrated by the clergy and laity from the fifth century until the sixteenth century in several countries of Europe, principally France, but also...
    : 1 January
  • Saint Basil's Day: 1 January (Christian Orthodox) In Greece, traditionally he is the Father Christmas
    Father Christmas

    Father Christmas is the name used in many English language speaking countries for the gift-bringing figure of Christmas. A similar figure with the same name exists in several other countries, including France Spain , Portugal , Italy and Romania ....
     figure.
  • Twelfth Night
    Twelfth Night (holiday)

    Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany , and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas....
    : Epiphany Eve: 5 January
  • Epiphany: 6 January: the arrival of the Three Magi.
  • Armenian Apoststolc
    Armenian Apostolic Church

    The Armenian Apostolic Church is the world's oldest national church and one of the most ancient Christianity communities.The official name of the church is the One Holy Universal Apostolic Orthodox Armenian Church ....
     Christmas
    Christmas

    Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
    : 6 January
  • Eastern Orthodox Christmas
    Christmas

    Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
    : according to the Julian Calendar
    Julian calendar

    The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
    , 7 January
  • Candlemas: 2 February
  • St. Valentine's Day: 14 February


Germanic

  • Modranect
    Winter solstice

    Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
    : or Mothers' Night, the Saxon winter solstice festival.
  • Yule
    Yule

    Yule or Yule-tide is a List of winter festivals that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as a Germanic paganism religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christianity festival of Christmas....
    : the Germanic winter solstice festival


Hindu

  • Navratri
    Navratri

    Navratri is a Hinduism festival of worship and dance. The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Sanskrit; Nava meaning Nine and Ratri meaning nights....
    :Nine-day celebration worshipping female divinity, in October or November. Culminates in Dussehra.
  • Diwali
    Diwali

    Diwali is a significant festival in Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and an official holiday in India. Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights....
    :Known as the Festival of Lights, this Hindu holiday celebrates the victory of good over evil. The five-day festival is marked by ceremonies, fireworks and sweets. Women dress up and decorate their hands with henna tattoos for the melas, or fairs. Many different myths are associated with Diwali, one of which celebrates the return of Lord Rama after a 14-year exile and his defeat of the demon Ravana.
  • Bhaubeej
    Bhaubeej

    Bhav Bij Bhav Bij / Bhai Bij / Bhaubeej /Bhai PhotaThe festival of Bhai Dooj is popularly known as Bhai Bij, Bhaubeej or Bhav Bij amongst the Marathi speaking communities in the states of Maharashtra and Goa....


Jewish

  • Hanukkah
    Hanukkah

    File:PikiWiki Israel 146 Hanukka ?????.JpgHanukkah , also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE....
    : Starting on 25 Kislev
    Kislev

    For the Warhammer Fantasy location see Kislev Kislev is the third month of the civil year and the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar....
     (Hebrew
    Hebrew calendar

    The Hebrew calendar or Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar used by Jews, now predominantly for religious purposes. It is used to reckon the Jewish New Year and dates for Jewish holidays, and also to determine appropriate Torah reading of Torah portions, Yahrzeits , and daily Psalm reading, among many ceremonial uses....
    ) or various dates in November or December (Gregorian
    Gregorian calendar

    The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
    ) - eight day festival commemorating the miracle of the oil after the desecration of the Temple by Antiochus IV Epiphanes
    Antiochus IV Epiphanes

    Antiochus IV Epiphanes ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. He was a son of King Antiochus III the Great and the brother of Seleucus IV Philopator....
     and his defeat in 165 BCE.
  • Tu Bishvat
    Tu Bishvat

    "Tu Bishvat" is a minor Jewish holiday in the Hebrew month of Shevat, usually sometime in late January or early February, that marks the "New Year of the Trees" ....
    : New Year of the Trees occurring on the 15th of Shevat
    Shevat

    Shevat is the fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a winter month of 30 days....
    , January or February.
  • Purim
    Purim

    Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman 's plot to annihilate them, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible Book of Esther ....
    : Occurring on 14th or 15th day of Adar, late February to March, commemorating the miraculous deliverance and victory of the Jews of the Persian Empire in the events recorded in the Book of Esther
    Book of Esther

    The Book of Esther is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. The Book of Esther or the Megillah is the basis for the Jewish celebration of Purim....


Muslim

  • Eid ul-Adha
    Eid ul-Adha

    Eid al-Adha "Festival of Sacrifice" or "Greater Bairam" is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God in Islam....
    : Starting on the 10th of Dhul Hijja, a four day holiday commemorating the Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.
NOTE: The Islamic calendar is based on the moon and this festival moves with respect to the solar year. It is, however, falling in the winter in the first decade of the present [21st] Century of the common era.


Pagan and Neo-Pagan

  • Samhain
    Samhain

    Samhain is a festival on the end of the harvest season in Gaels and Britons cultures, with aspects of a festival of the dead. Many scholars believe that it was the beginning of the Celtic year....
    : 31 October - first day of winter in the Celtic calendar (and Celtic New Year's Day)
  • Yule
    Yule

    Yule or Yule-tide is a List of winter festivals that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as a Germanic paganism religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christianity festival of Christmas....
    : (Winter Solstice) - Germanic and Egyptian Pagan festival of the rebirth of the Sun
  • Imbolc
    Imbolc

    Imbolc is one of the four principal festivals of the Irish calendar, celebrated among Gaels peoples and some other Celts cultures, either at the beginning of February or at the first local signs of Spring ....
    : (Oimelc) (1 February or 2), but traditionally the evening of (31 January)


Andean

  • Inti Raymi
    Inti Raymi

    The Inti Raymi was a religious ceremony of the Inca Empire in honor of the god Inti. It also marked the winter solstice and a new year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere....
    : Festival of the Sun in Quechua
    Quechua

    Quechua is a Native American language of South America. It was already widely spoken across the Central Andes long before the time of the Inca Empire, who established it as the official language of administration for their Empire, and is still spoken today in various regional forms by some 10 million people through much of South America, in...
    , winter solstice festival in areas of the former Inca
    Inca

    The Inca civilization began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200....
     empire, still celebrated every June in Cuzco.


Persian

  • Sadeh
    Sadeh

    Sad? or Sada Jashn-e Sada/Sad? , also transliterated as Sadeh, is an ancient Iranian tradition celebrated 50 days before nowrouz. Sadeh in Persian language means "hundred" and refers to one hundred days and nights left to the beginning of the new year celebrated at the first day of spring on March 21 each year....
    : A mid-winter feast to honor fire and to "defeat the forces of darkness, frost and cold". Sadé or Sada (Persian: ???) Jashn-e Sada/Sadé (in Persian: ??? ???), also transliterated as Sadeh, is an ancient Iranian tradition celebrated 50 days before nowrouz. Sadeh in Persian means "hundred" and refers to one hundred days and nights left to the beginning of the new year celebrated at the first day of spring on March 21st each year. Sadeh is a mid winter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold.
  • Yalda
    Yalda

    Shab-e Yalda or Shab-e Chelleh is an Iranian festivals originally celebrated on the Northern Hemisphere longest night of the year, that is, on the eve of the Winter Solstice....
    : The turning point, Winter Solstice
    Winter solstice

    Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
     (December 21). End of the longest night of the year (Darkness), and beginning of growing of the days (Lights). A celebration of Good over Evil. Shabe Yalda (Persian: ????) or Shabe Chelle (Persian: ?? ???) is an Iranian festival originally celebrated on the Northern Hemisphere's longest night of the year, that is, on the eve of the Winter Solstice.
  • Chahar Shanbeh Suri: Festival of Fire, Last Wednesday of the Iranian Calendar year. It marks the importance of the light over the darkness, and arrival of spring and revival of nature. Chaharshanbe-Suri (Persian: ?????????????), pronounced Charshanbe-Suri (Persian: ????????????) is the ancient Iranian festival dating at least back to 1700 BCE of the early Zoroastrian era.[1] The festival of fire is a prelude to the ancient Norouz festival, which marks the arrival of spring and revival of nature. Chahrshanbeh Soori, is celebrated the last Tuesday night of the year.


Polynesian

  • Matariki
    Matariki

    In the Maori language Matariki is the name of the Pleiades star cluster, which was important for agriculture in establishing the correct time to plant crops....
    : (Maori
    Maori

    The Maori are the indigenous people Polynesian people of Aotearoa . The group probably arrived in south-western Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300....
     New Year, usually early June) - Rising of the Pleiades
    Pleiades

    Pleiades can refer to:*Pleiades ? open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus**Pleiades in folklore and literature - interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures...
     star cluster before dawn.


Roman

  • Saturnalia
    Saturnalia

    Saturnalia is the festival with which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn , which was on 17 December. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, to 23 December....
    : the Roman winter soltice festival
  • Festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun: late Roman Empire - 25 December
  • Lupercalia
    Lupercalia

    Lupercalia was a very ancient, Ancient Rome pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through February 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility....
    , the Roman end-of-winter festival - 15 February


Secular

  • Winterval
    Winterval

    Winterval is a portmanteau word coined by Mike Chubb to describe all festivities taking place around the end of the year . It is a fusion of the words winter and festival and was intended to be an alternative description that encompasses the Neopagan , Jewish , Muslim , Hindu and secular holidays such as New Year's Day that take pl...
    : Secular name for winter festivities coined by Birmingham
    Birmingham

    Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
     City Council to encompass all holidays being recognized from October to January
  • Zamenhof Day
    Zamenhof Day

    Zamenhof Day is celebrated on December 15, the birthday of Esperanto creator L. L. Zamenhof. It is the most widely celebrated day in Esperanto culture....
    : (15 December) - Birthday of Ludwig Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
    Esperanto

    is the most widely spoken constructed language international auxiliary language in the world. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L....
    ; holiday reunion for Esperantists
  • Winter Solstice
    Winter solstice

    Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
    , Yule
    Yule

    Yule or Yule-tide is a List of winter festivals that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as a Germanic paganism religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christianity festival of Christmas....
    : (21 December or 22 December) (Late June weekend in Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    ) - Celebration of the Winter Solstice
    Solstice

    A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year, when the tilt of the Earth's Rotation is most inclined toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun's apparent position in the sky to reach its north or south extreme....
    .
  • HumanLight
    HumanLight

    HumanLight is a Humanism List of winter festivals. It is celebrated on December 23. Like Kwanzaa, HumanLight is a modern invention, created to provide a specifically Humanist seasonal celebration....
    : (23 December) - Humanist holiday originated by the New Jersey Humanist Network
  • Chrismukkah
    Chrismukkah

    Chrismukkah is a pop-culture neologism referring to the merging of the holidays of Christianity's Christmas and Judaism's Hanukkah as celebrated in interfaith households where one parent may be of Christian heritage and another parent of Jewish heritage....
    : Slang term for the amalgam of Christmas and Hanukkah celebrated by religiously mixed families and couples
  • Yule
    Yule

    Yule or Yule-tide is a List of winter festivals that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as a Germanic paganism religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christianity festival of Christmas....
    tide: (25 December) - Classic and modern, respectively, terms for the social and federal December 25th holiday
  • Boxing Day
    Boxing Day

    Boxing Day is a bank holiday or a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and countries in the Commonwealth of Nations with a mainly Christian population....
    : (26 December) - Gift-giving day after Christmas.
  • Kwanzaa
    Kwanzaa

    Kwanzaa is a week-long Africa American holiday honoring African heritage, marked by participants lighting a kinara . It is observed from December 26 to January 1 each year....
    : (26 December - 1 January) - Pan-African
    Pan-Africanism

    Pan-Africanism is a sociopolitical world view, and philosophy, as well as a movement, which seeks to unify both native Africans and those of the African diaspora, as part of a "global African community".Pan-Africanism calls for a politically united Africa....
     festival
  • Yulefest, Midwinter Christmas (around late June or July) - Australian New Zealand winter 'Christmas/Yuletide'
  • New Year's Eve
    New Year's Eve

    New Year's Eve is on , the final day of the Gregorian calendar year, and the day before New Year's Day.New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day....
    : (31 December) - Last day of the Gregorian year
    Gregorian calendar

    The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
  • Hogmanay
    Hogmanay

    File:Hogmanay Party.jpgHogmanay is the Scots Language word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner....
    : (Night of 31 December - Before dawn of 1 January) - Scottish New Years Eve Celebration
  • New Year's Day
    New Year's Day

    New Year's Day is the first day of the new year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome ....
    : (1 January) - First day of the Gregorian year
  • Burns Night: (25 January) - Birthday of Robert Burns
    Robert Burns

    Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland....
  • Groundhog Day
    Groundhog Day

    Groundhog Day is an annual holiday celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day fails to see its shadow, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter will soon end....
    : (2 February)
  • Quebec City Winter Carnival
    Quebec City Winter Carnival

    The Quebec Winter Carnival is an annual winter carnival that takes place in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The festival typically starts on the first Friday of January and continues for 17 days....
    : (February) - Annual celebration of winter.
  • Fur Rondy: (Late February and early March]) - Winter celebration in Anchorage, Alaska
    Anchorage, Alaska

    Anchorage is a consolidated city-Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 279,671 municipal residents in 2007 , it is Alaska's largest city and constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population....
  • Festival du Voyageur
    Festival du Voyageur

    The Festival du Voyageur is an annual 10-day winter festival which takes place in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada during February. "Voyageur" refers to those who worked for a fur trade company and usually travelled by canoe....
    : February winter celebration of the fur trade in Winnipeg
    Winnipeg

    Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada. It is located near the longitude centre of North America, at the confluence of the historic Red River of the North and Assiniboine River Rivers, a point now commonly known as The Forks, Winnipeg....
    , Manitoba
    Manitoba

    Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....
    .


Slavic

  • Karachun - the ancient Slavs polytheistic winter solstice festival


Fictional

  • Festivus
    Festivus

    Festivus is an annual holiday created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld....
    : 23 December - quirky holiday invented on the television show Seinfeld
    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
  • Festival of the Bells: Midwinter celebration in Fraggle Rock
    Fraggle Rock

    Fraggle Rock is a children's television series with a total of 4 seasons and 96 episodes that originally ran from January 10, 1983 to March 30, 1987 on HBO in the United States, CBC Television in Canada, TV2 in New Zealand and ITV in the United Kingdom....
    , also mentioned in A Muppet Family Christmas
    A Muppet Family Christmas

    A Muppet Family Christmas is a 1987 Christmas television special starring Jim Henson's Muppets.The plot involves Doc escaping city life to spend the holidays in the country....
    .
  • Decemberween: 25 December - A holiday in the Homestar Runner
    Homestar Runner

    Homestar Runner is a Flash animation Internet Animation. It mixes surreal humor with references to 1970s, '80s, and '90s pop culture, notably video games, classic television, and popular music....
     universe, occurring 55 days after Halloween
    Halloween

    Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic mythology of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a Secularity celebration, but some Christians and Paganism have expressed strong feelings about its religious overtones....
    .
  • Hogswatchnight
    Discworld (world)

    The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels. It consists of a slightly convex disc resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space....
    : December 32 - New Year's Eve/Christmas in Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett

    Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
    's     Discworld
    Discworld

    Discworld is a comedy fantasy book series by the British author Terry Pratchett, set on Discworld , a Flat Earth balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Discworld #Great A'Tuin, the star turtle....
     novels (plays on Hogmanay, Watch Night, and "hogwash")
  • Winterfair: from the Vorkosigan Saga
    Vorkosigan Saga

    The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by American author Lois McMaster Bujold, most of which concern Miles Vorkosigan, a physically disabled aristocrat from the planet Barrayar whose life , military career, and post-military career is a challenge to his native planet's prejudices against "mutants."...
     of Lois McMaster Bujold
    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Lois McMaster Bujold is an United States author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A....
    ; a Barrayarran cultural holiday
  • Chrismukkah
    Chrismukkah

    Chrismukkah is a pop-culture neologism referring to the merging of the holidays of Christianity's Christmas and Judaism's Hanukkah as celebrated in interfaith households where one parent may be of Christian heritage and another parent of Jewish heritage....
    : the modern-day merging of the holidays of Christianity's Christmas and Judaism's Hanukkah.
  • Chrismahanukwanzakah
    Chrismahanukwanzakah

    Chrismahanukwanzakah is a fictional holiday that was created by Virgin Mobile USA for a 2004 television commercial campaign and used through 2005....
    : the modern-day merging of the holidays of Christianity's Christmas, Judaism's Hanukkah, and the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.
  • Hedgehog Day: 2 February - supposed archaic European version of Groundhog Day, dating back to Roman times.
  • Wintersday: The annual winter holiday in the MMORPG Guild Wars
    Guild Wars

    Guild Wars is an episodic game series of multiplayer game online role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. Three stand-alone episodes and one expansion pack were released in the series from April 2005 to August 2007....
    . This holiday is based on Christmas and Yule and one can get neat hats.
  • Starlight Celebration: The annual winter holiday based on Christmas/Yule/winter solstice in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI (aka FFXI). Players can collect various holiday equipment, Mog house furnishings, fireworks, and food.
  • Shoe
    Shoe

    A shoe is an item of footwear evolved at first to protect the human foot and later, additionally, as an item of decoration in itself. The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the human body, and has human evolution over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate....
     Giving: - quirky holiday famously invented on the show Hyperdrive (TV series)
    Hyperdrive (TV series)

    Hyperdrive was a United Kingdom television science fiction Situation comedy series produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." BBC2 broadcast two seasons in 2006 and 2007, but the series was then cancelled....
  • Freezingman: - 11 January- A Burning Man
    Burning Man

    Burning Man is an annual event held in the Black Rock Desert, in Northern Nevada. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening....
     inspired event held in Colorado as a Winter Arts and Music Festival http://www.coloradofreezingman.com http://tribes.tribe.net/freezingman
  • Noob Day: December 26 - The day following Christmas when all the people who received online games as gifts go online for the first time and are killed off or mocked by veterans. This carries on the old concept of "Christmas greenies" from the 1980s, when computer BBSes
    Bulletin board system

    File:Monochrome-bbs.pngA Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running list of BBS software that allows User to Telecommunication circuit and Logging to the system using a terminal program....
     would be flooded by greenies (new users) who had just received their first modem
    Modem

    Modem is a peripheral device that modulation an analog carrier wave Signal to encode digital information, and also demodulation such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information....
     as gifts.
  • Feast of Winter Veil: December 15 to January 2 - holiday in the MMORPG World of Warcraft
    World of Warcraft

    World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game . It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994 in video gaming....
    . This holiday is based on Christmas. Cities are decorated with christmas lights and a tree with presents. Also special quests, items and snowballs are available. It features 'Greatfather Winter' which is modeled after [Santa Claus].
  • Kwansolhaneidmas: December 19 - an interdenominational holiday celebrated by people on Facebook
    Facebook

    Facebook is a free-access social network service website that is operated and privately held company by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people....
    .
  • Winter-een-mas
    Ctrl+Alt+Del

    Ctrl+Alt+Del is a Video game-related webcomic and animation written by Tim Buckley. The name of the comic refers to the Microsoft Windows command Control-Alt-Delete....
    : January 25 - January 31 - from     Ctrl+Alt+Del


See also

  • Christmas worldwide
    Christmas worldwide

    The Christmas season is celebrated in different ways around the world, varying by country and region....
  • Winter solstice
    Winter solstice

    Winter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice* Winter Solstice *...
  • List of ice and snow sculpture events
    List of ice and snow sculpture events

    Ice Festival, Ice and Snow Festival, or Snow and Ice Festival may refer to one of the following events.*Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival...