December Religious Festivals and Dates

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By Vexen Crabtree 2026

#december #hinduism #islam #judaism #paganism

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Note that some traditions have festivals and dates that start at sundown or in the evening of the night before, such as (Jewish, Muslim and some Pagan events). There are few Hindu dates on these calendars yet, due to the complexity & multiplicity of all the various calendars in use. Likewise, there are few south-east Asian calendar dates.

Date	Event	Notes
Dec 1st Tuesday
Dec 2nd Wednesday
Dec 3rd Thursday
Dec 4th Friday
Dec 5th Saturday (8 days) (this year)	Hanukah	Judaism. For the day the Maccabee army defeated a Syrian Greek army.
Dec 6th Sunday
Dec 7th Monday
Dec 8th Tuesday (fixed)	Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary	Christianity (Catholic). The annual declaration by Catholics that Jesus' mother was herself born free from Original Sin.
Dec 9th Wednesday
Dec 10th Thursday
Dec 11th Friday
Dec 12th Saturday (this year)	Feast of Masá'il (Questions)	Bahá'í Faith.
Dec 13th Sunday (always on a Sun)	Advent Sunday	Christianity (Western churches). Four Sundays before Christmas. Candles are lit each Sunday for the end of the period of the sun's weakness. Historically developed from: Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)
Dec 14th Monday
Dec 15th Tuesday
Dec 16th Wednesday
Dec 17th Thursday
Dec 18th Friday
Dec 19th Saturday (fixed)	The Feast of Saint Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra in Lycia	Christianity (Orthodox Churches).
Dec 20th Sunday
Dec 21st Monday (12 days) (fixed)	Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)	Paganism. The Winter Solstice (the shortest day of the year) in the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice in the Southern. Twelve days long, for the twelve zodiacs.
Dec 21st Monday (this year)	Martyrdom of Ajit Singh and Jujhar Singh	Sikhism. The two elder sons of Guru Gobind Singh.
Dec 22nd Tuesday
Dec 23rd Wednesday
Dec 24th Thursday
Dec 25th Friday (this year)	Zaratosht No Diso	Zoroastrianism. Date can vary due to balancing between the solar Hijri calendar of Iran and the Fasli calendar. The death of prophet Zoroaster.
Dec 25th Friday (fixed)	Christmas Day	(Western churches). Multicultural celebration with pagan roots, endowed with Christian stories, but mostly observed in a secular and commercialist manner. Historically developed from: Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)
Dec 25th Friday (fixed)	Nativity / Christmas Day	Christianity. Previously celebrated in spring, the birth of Jesus was moved in the 4th century to merge it with popular pagan celebrations on the 25th.
Dec 26th Saturday
Dec 27th Sunday (this year)	Feast of Tammuz	Judaism. Although the hebrew day starts in the evening, this fast starts the morning after and continues until nightfall. To remember the breach of Jerusalem's walls by Romans (69CE). A 3-week period also covers the destruction of the first Jewish Temple (586BCE), the Roman-Jewish war of 66CE & the 2nd temple's destruction.
Dec 28th Monday
Dec 29th Tuesday
Dec 30th Wednesday
Dec 31st Thursday (this year)	Feast of Sharaf (Honor)	Bahá'í Faith.