Religiöses Fest – Monat für Monat rund um die Welt

1. 🏙️ Addis Abeba 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienTimkat · 18.–21. Jan.The tabots are carried from the churches to Jan Meda on the eve of 19 January and the crowd is blessed with water the next morning.95
2. 🏙️ Bahir Dar 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienTimkat on Lake Tana · 18.–20. Jan.The tabots are carried down to the lakeshore on the eve of the 19th and the blessing of the water happens at first light.94
3. 🏙️ Dhaka 🇧🇩 BangladeschBishwa Ijtema · 5. Jan. – 20. Feb. (meist)Millions gather at Tongi on the Turag over two weekend phases, one of the largest annual assemblies anywhere.93
4. 🏙️ Gonder 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienTimkat at Fasilides' Bath · 18.–20. Jan.The stone bath below the castle is filled for the one morning of the year, and when the water is blessed the crowd goes in over the walls.93
5. 🏙️ Mexiko-Stadt 🇲🇽 MexikoDia de Reyes · 5.–6. Jan.Sweet bread shared on 6 January with a figure baked inside, and whoever finds it owes tamales in February.92
6. 🏙️ Chittagong 🇧🇩 BangladeschMaizbhandar Urs · 22.–26. Jan. (meist)Hundreds of thousands of devotees converge on the Maizbhandar shrine in Fatikchhari, about 40 km north of the city, around 10 Magh (24 January) for Maizbhandari songs and kaviyal performances.92
7. 🏙️ San Cristóbal de las Casas 🇲🇽 MexikoFiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo · 4.–23. Jan.Three weeks of Parachico dancers in carved wooden masks and blond headdresses processing between the churches of Chiapa de Corzo, an hour down the valley.91
8. 🏙️ Asmara 🇪🇷 EritreaTimket · 18.–20. Jan.Orthodox Epiphany on 19 January.89
9. 🏙️ Luxor 🇪🇬 ÄgyptenMoulid of Abu el-Haggag · 15. Jan. – 10. März (meist)Luxor's own festival: boat floats hauled round the mosque above the temple, horse races and stick dancing for three days.88
10. 🥾 Lalibela 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienTimkat · 18.–21. Jan.The Epiphany procession takes the tabots out of the churches and down to the water, a fortnight after Genna and with most of the same crowd still in town.87
11. 🏙️ Varanasi 🇮🇳 IndienMakar Sankranti · 13.–16. Jan.Kites over the old city all day and a dawn dip at the ghats on 14 January, the day the sun turns north.86
12. 🥾 Bagan 🇲🇲 MyanmarAnanda Pagoda Festival · 25. Dez. – 31. Jan. (meist)Fifteen days of temple fair around the full moon of Pyatho: bullock carts camped on the plain, stalls the length of the approach, and monks receiving alms in a line before dawn.85
13. 🏙️ Ezulwini Valley 🇸🇿 EswatiniIncwala · 20. Dez. – 15. Jan. (meist)The kingship ceremony at Lobamba, timed by the moon and running over several weeks with the Big Incwala at its centre.82
14. 🏙️ Valladolid 🇲🇽 MexikoFeria de la Candelaria · 27. Jan. – 8. Feb. (meist)The town's patronal fair around the second of February, with bullring events, vaqueria dances in the square and a fairground on the edge of town.81
15. 🏙️ Chennai 🇮🇳 IndienKapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival · 20. Jan. – 15. Feb. (meist)Over three evenings in the Tamil month of Thai, around Thaipusam, the Mylapore temple's deities are rowed round the temple tank on a lit float; crowds line the tank steps and the streets around fill with stalls.77
16. 🏙️ Kochi 🇮🇳 IndienErnakulathappan Utsavam · 15. Jan. – 10. Feb. (meist)Eight days at the Shiva temple on Durbar Hall Ground: caparisoned elephants lined up for the evening processions, panchari melam and fireworks.75
17. 🏖️ Tossa de Mar 🇪🇸 SpanienEl Pelegrí de Tossa · 19.–21. Jan.On Sant Sebastia, 20 January, one villager walks forty kilometres through the night to Santa Coloma de Farners and back, a vow kept since a plague, and the town waits up for the return.74
18. 🏙️ Monaco 🇲🇨 MonacoSainte Devote · 26.–27. Jan.The patron saint's night on 26 January, when a boat is burned in front of her chapel by the corner the racing drivers are named after, and the Grimaldis turn out for it.73
19. 🏙️ Manila 🇵🇭 PhilippinenFeast of the Black Nazarene · 9. Jan.Millions of barefoot devotees pull the image through Quiapo in a procession that takes most of a day and sometimes into the night.73
20. 🏙️ Punakha 🇧🇹 BhutanMonk body in winter residence · 15. Nov. – 15. Mai (meist)The Je Khenpo and the Central Monastic Body move down from Thimphu to Punakha Dzong for the winter, arriving in procession around late November and leaving again around May, a custom dating to the Zhabdrung.71
21. 🏙️ Osaka 🇯🇵 JapanToka Ebisu · 9.–11. Jan.A million people pass through Imamiya Ebisu over three days in the second week of January to buy bamboo charms for the year's business.69
22. 🏝️ Penang 🇲🇾 MalaysiaThaipusam · 20. Jan. – 15. Feb. (meist)A silver chariot is pulled from Little India up to the Waterfall Temple over three days, with kavadi bearers, coconut smashing and a crowd well into six figures.69
23. 🏖️ Salvador 🇧🇷 BrasilienLavagem do Bonfim · 8.–18. Jan. (meist)Baianas in white wash the church steps with scented water at the end of an eight-kilometre walk from Comercio, followed by about a million people and a great many sound trucks.69
24. 🥾 Lençóis 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta do Senhor dos Passos · 23. Jan. – 3. Feb.The old diamond miners' patron is honoured for twelve days: the church steps washed with scented water, a novena, the procession through the historic centre on 2 February and a blessing for the garimpeiros.68
25. 🏙️ Fukuoka 🇯🇵 JapanTamaseseri at Hakozaki Shrine · 3. Jan.A New Year rite at Hakozakigu: two teams of loincloth-clad men wrestle for a sacred wooden ball in the afternoon, doused with water as they go.67

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1. 🏙️ Luxor 🇪🇬 ÄgyptenMoulid of Abu el-Haggag · 15. Jan. – 10. März (meist)Luxor's own festival: boat floats hauled round the mosque above the temple, horse races and stick dancing for three days.93
2. 🏙️ Agra 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.92
3. 🏙️ Delhi 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 20. März (meist)A bonfire the night before, then a day of colour and water that shuts the city down completely — no shops, almost no traffic, and taxis that will not come.90
4. 🏙️ Khajuraho 🇮🇳 IndienShivaratri at Matangeshwar · 10. Feb. – 15. März (meist)The one temple in the western group still in daily worship holds an overnight fair for Shivaratri, and pilgrims from the surrounding districts queue round the compound.90
5. 🏙️ Varanasi 🇮🇳 IndienMahashivratri · 10. Feb. – 15. März (meist)The night of the city's own god.89
6. 🏙️ Jodhpur 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.89
7. 🏙️ Hermosillo 🇲🇽 MexikoCandelaria in Villa de Seris · 1.–2. Feb.The old southern barrio of Villa de Seris honours the Virgin of Candelaria with processions and masses, and a street fair where tamales are the point of going.87
8. 🏙️ Kathmandu 🇳🇵 NepalHoli · 25. Feb. – 20. März (meist)Basantapur and Thamel take the brunt of it and nobody walks through dry.85
9. 🏙️ Pune 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.85
10. 🏙️ Dhaka 🇧🇩 BangladeschBishwa Ijtema · 5. Jan. – 20. Feb. (meist)Millions gather at Tongi on the Turag over two weekend phases, one of the largest annual assemblies anywhere.84
11. 🏙️ Amritsar 🇮🇳 IndienHola Mohalla at Anandpur Sahib · 25. Feb. – 30. März (meist)The Nihang Sikh gathering the day after Holi: gatka sword displays, horseback stunts and processions at Takht Kesgarh Sahib.84
12. 🥾 Hsipaw 🇲🇲 MyanmarBawgyo Pagoda festival · 20. Feb. – 25. März (meist)The most important Shan pilgrimage in the north runs for about a week up to the Tabaung full moon at the pagoda just west of town.84
13. 🏙️ Chittagong 🇧🇩 BangladeschShiva Chaturdashi Mela, Sitakunda · 10. Feb. – 15. März (meist)For about ten days in Phalgun, pilgrims climb the long stairway to Chandranath temple above Sitakunda, a short trip up the Dhaka highway.84
14. 🏖️ Tel Aviv-Jaffa 🇮🇱 IsraelPurim · 20. Feb. – 25. März (meist)The one night the city dresses up and drinks in the street; Florentin and the Rothschild end of town are the centre of it, and the parties run to daylight.83
15. 🏙️ Mumbai 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 20. März (meist)The last big street festival before the hot season.82
16. 🏙️ Kolkata 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.82
17. 🥾 Rishikesh 🇮🇳 IndienMaha Shivratri · 14. Feb. – 14. März (meist)Shiva's night draws walking pilgrims up to Neelkanth Mahadev through the hills behind the town, and the ghats and the bridges are shoulder to shoulder from the afternoon before.82
18. 🏙️ Hampi 🇮🇳 IndienMaha Shivaratri at Virupaksha · 5. Feb. – 10. März (meist)Virupaksha is a working temple in the middle of the ruins and Shivaratri is its night.82
19. 🏙️ Pakse 🇱🇦 LaosWat Phou Festival · 1.–28. Feb. (meist)Three days of pilgrimage, elephant racing and music at the Khmer temple below the mountain south of town, timed to the February full moon.81
20. 🏙️ Syrakus 🇮🇹 ItalienSant'Agata in Catania · 3.–5. Feb.An hour north, Catania's patron-saint feast is among the largest Catholic processions anywhere: devotees in white haul the saint's silver reliquary through the streets from the morning of 5 February into the next day.80
21. 🏙️ Catania 🇮🇹 ItalienFesta di Sant'Agata · 3.–5. Feb.Three days in early February when the whole city, in white sacchi, hauls the saint's silver bust through the streets overnight.80
22. 🏖️ Puducherry 🇮🇳 IndienMasi Magam · 20. Feb. – 20. März (meist)Deities from temples across the district are carried down to the sea for a ritual bath on the Magam star of the Tamil month of Masi, and the beach road fills from before dawn.79
23. 🏙️ Valladolid 🇲🇽 MexikoFeria de la Candelaria · 27. Jan. – 8. Feb. (meist)The town's patronal fair around the second of February, with bullring events, vaqueria dances in the square and a fairground on the edge of town.79
24. 🏙️ Chennai 🇮🇳 IndienKapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival · 20. Jan. – 15. Feb. (meist)Over three evenings in the Tamil month of Thai, around Thaipusam, the Mylapore temple's deities are rowed round the temple tank on a lit float; crowds line the tank steps and the streets around fill with stalls.78
25. 🏙️ Nainital 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.78

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1. 🏖️ Tel Aviv-Jaffa 🇮🇱 IsraelPurim · 20. Feb. – 25. März (meist)The one night the city dresses up and drinks in the street; Florentin and the Rothschild end of town are the centre of it, and the parties run to daylight.91
2. 🏙️ Amritsar 🇮🇳 IndienHola Mohalla at Anandpur Sahib · 25. Feb. – 30. März (meist)The Nihang Sikh gathering the day after Holi: gatka sword displays, horseback stunts and processions at Takht Kesgarh Sahib.89
3. 🏙️ Kathmandu 🇳🇵 NepalHoli · 25. Feb. – 20. März (meist)Basantapur and Thamel take the brunt of it and nobody walks through dry.88
4. 🏙️ Nainital 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.87
5. 🏙️ Lahore 🇵🇰 PakistanMela Chiraghan · 20. März – 5. Apr. (meist)Three nights at Shah Hussain's shrine in Baghbanpura, beside the Shalimar Gardens: lamps, dhol and dhamaal until morning.85
6. 🥾 Rishikesh 🇮🇳 IndienMaha Shivratri · 14. Feb. – 14. März (meist)Shiva's night draws walking pilgrims up to Neelkanth Mahadev through the hills behind the town, and the ghats and the bridges are shoulder to shoulder from the afternoon before.84
7. 🏙️ Luxor 🇪🇬 ÄgyptenMoulid of Abu el-Haggag · 15. Jan. – 10. März (meist)Luxor's own festival: boat floats hauled round the mosque above the temple, horse races and stick dancing for three days.83
8. 🏙️ Copán 🇭🇳 HondurasFeria de San José · 2.–24. März (meist)The town's patron fair takes the plaza for the best part of a week in March: masses, a rodeo, food stalls and bands that run late.83
9. 🏝️ Ajaccio 🇫🇷 FrankreichA Madunnuccia · 17.–18. MärzThe city's patron saint day: candles lit at the statue on Place Foch on the evening of the 17th, then mass at the cathedral and a procession through the old town on the 18th, a local holiday.82
10. 🥾 Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaRam Navami at Seetha Amman · 25. März – 20. Apr. (meist)Hindu pilgrims on Sri Lanka's Ramayana Trail gather at the Seetha Amman Temple, said to mark Sita's captivity, for special pujas; the date follows the lunar calendar and shifts between late March and mid-April.82
11. 🏙️ Udaipur 🇮🇳 IndienMewar Festival · 15. März – 20. Apr. (meist)Udaipur's version of Gangaur: two days of processions down to Gangaur Ghat, boats out on Pichola and fireworks over the water.81
12. 🥾 Lijiang 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaSanduo Festival · 5. März – 5. Apr. (meist)The Naxi honour their protector god on the eighth day of the second lunar month, usually late March, with horse racing and family picnics out at the foot of the snow mountain.81
13. 🏙️ Macau 🇲🇴 MacauFeast of the God Tou Tei · 5.–25. März (meist)Neighbourhood earth-god shrines near the Inner Harbour mark the deity's lunar birthday with roast-pig offerings, lion dances and open-air Cantonese opera.80
14. 🏙️ Agra 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.80
15. 🏙️ Masuri 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.80
16. 🏙️ Jaipur 🇮🇳 IndienGangaur · 15. März – 15. Apr. (meist)Two afternoons of processions out of the City Palace at Tripolia Gate, with elephants, camels and the palanquins of the goddess.79
17. 🏙️ Bengaluru 🇮🇳 IndienUgadi · 15. März – 15. Apr. (meist)The Kannada new year in spring: mango leaves over doorways, bevu-bella eaten bitter and sweet together, and a quiet city for a day as offices and most restaurants close.79
18. 🏙️ Mysuru 🇮🇳 IndienNanjangud Dodda Jatre · 10. März – 15. Apr. (meist)A day trip 25 km south: five temple chariots are hauled through Nanjangud's main street for Srikanteshwara, followed by a float festival on the Kabini, and several lakh devotees come for the day.79
19. 🏙️ Delhi 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 20. März (meist)A bonfire the night before, then a day of colour and water that shuts the city down completely — no shops, almost no traffic, and taxis that will not come.78
20. 🏙️ Khajuraho 🇮🇳 IndienShivaratri at Matangeshwar · 10. Feb. – 15. März (meist)The one temple in the western group still in daily worship holds an overnight fair for Shivaratri, and pilgrims from the surrounding districts queue round the compound.78
21. 🏖️ Nha Trang 🇻🇳 VietnamPo Nagar temple festival · 25. März – 5. Mai (meist)The Cham towers above the river hold three days of offerings, processions and dance in the third lunar month, drawing pilgrims from across the south-central coast.77
22. 🏙️ Ninh Bình 🇻🇳 VietnamHoa Lư Festival · 25. März – 25. Apr. (meist)The old capital marks the Dinh and Le kings with processions between the two temples and boat and palanquin rites on the Hoang Long river.77
23. 🏙️ Varanasi 🇮🇳 IndienMahashivratri · 10. Feb. – 15. März (meist)The night of the city's own god.76
24. 🏙️ Jodhpur 🇮🇳 IndienHoli · 25. Feb. – 25. März (meist)Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.76
25. 🥾 Dharamsala 🇮🇳 IndienDalai Lama spring teachings · 20. Feb. – 20. März (meist)Several days of public teaching at Tsuglagkhang, announced only weeks ahead and free once you register in person.76

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1. 🏖️ Alicante 🇪🇸 SpanienRomeria de la Santa Faz · 1. Apr. – 5. Mai (meist)On the second Thursday after Easter a couple of hundred thousand people walk the eight kilometres out to the monastery from dawn, carrying rosemary.92
2. 🏙️ Córdoba 🇪🇸 SpanienCruces de Mayo · 28. Apr. – 5. Mai (meist)Flower-covered crosses go up in the squares at the start of May, each with a bar beside it, and the city drinks outdoors for four nights.91
3. 🥾 Lijiang 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaSanduo Festival · 5. März – 5. Apr. (meist)The Naxi honour their protector god on the eighth day of the second lunar month, usually late March, with horse racing and family picnics out at the foot of the snow mountain.85
4. 🥾 Gorkha 🇳🇵 NepalBaisakh Purnima fair · 20. Apr. – 20. Mai (meist)A fair is held at the Gorakhnath cave below the palace on the Baisakh full moon, drawing hill villages that otherwise never come into town.85
5. 🏝️ Ponta Delgada 🇵🇹 PortugalSenhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres · 25. Apr. – 5. Juni (meist)The largest religious festival in the Azores, on the fifth Sunday after Easter.84
6. 🏙️ Kathmandu 🇳🇵 NepalBisket Jatra · 9.–18. Apr. (meist)Bhaktapur's new-year festival, an hour out of the city: chariots hauled through the lanes by hand and a pole raised and dropped in the square.82
7. 🏙️ Salt Lake City 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenGeneral Conference (April) · 3.–6. Apr. (meist)The first weekend of April brings tens of thousands to Temple Square for the church's semiannual conference.82
8. 🏙️ Kamakura 🇯🇵 JapanKamakura Matsuri · 10.–20. Apr. (meist)A week at the shrine from the second Sunday of April, ending with mounted archery down the avenue.80
9. 🥾 Paro 🇧🇹 BhutanParo Tsechu · 15. März – 20. Apr. (meist)Days of masked dance in the dzong courtyard, ending before dawn on the last morning when the great thongdrel is unrolled down the wall and taken in again before the sun reaches it.79
10. 🏙️ Brügge 🇧🇪 BelgienProcession of the Holy Blood · 30. Apr. – 5. Juni (meist)On Ascension Day the relic is carried through the centre with some thousands of costumed townspeople behind it, watched by about thirty-five thousand.78
11. 🏙️ Punakha 🇧🇹 BhutanMonk body in winter residence · 15. Nov. – 15. Mai (meist)The Je Khenpo and the Central Monastic Body move down from Thimphu to Punakha Dzong for the winter, arriving in procession around late November and leaving again around May, a custom dating to the Zhabdrung.78
12. 🥾 Kalaw 🇲🇲 MyanmarKason full moon · 25. Apr. – 25. Mai (meist)On the full moon of Kason, at the end of the hot season, people carry pots of water in procession to pour on the bodhi trees at the monasteries.77
13. 🏙️ Lahore 🇵🇰 PakistanMela Chiraghan · 20. März – 5. Apr. (meist)Three nights at Shah Hussain's shrine in Baghbanpura, beside the Shalimar Gardens: lamps, dhol and dhamaal until morning.76
14. 🏙️ Birmingham 🇬🇧 Vereinigtes KönigreichVaisakhi · 13.–27. Apr. (meist)Two Nagar Kirtan processions set off from gurdwaras across the city in late April and converge on the Vaisakhi Mela at Handsworth Park, with free langar along the route.76
15. 🏙️ Nikkō 🇯🇵 JapanYayoi Matsuri · 13.–17. Apr.Futarasan Shrine's spring festival, when twelve town floats are wheeled through Nikko.74
16. 🏝️ Cozumel 🇲🇽 MexikoFiesta de El Cedral · 20. Apr. – 15. Mai (meist)The island's oldest festival, held in the inland village of El Cedral around the Fiestas de Santa Cruz in late April or early May: bullfights, rodeo, dancing and the only time the interior gets busy.74
17. 🥾 Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaRam Navami at Seetha Amman · 25. März – 20. Apr. (meist)Hindu pilgrims on Sri Lanka's Ramayana Trail gather at the Seetha Amman Temple, said to mark Sita's captivity, for special pujas; the date follows the lunar calendar and shifts between late March and mid-April.73
18. 🏙️ Takayama 🇯🇵 JapanSpring Takayama Festival · 14.–15. Apr.Two fixed days of lacquered floats and marionettes through the old town, with the evening procession by lantern.72
19. 🏙️ Hongkong 🇭🇰 HongkongCheung Chau Bun Festival · 25. Apr. – 25. Mai (meist)Held around Buddha's Birthday on a car-free island an hour out by ferry: floating-children parades in the afternoon, bun-tower scrambling overnight.71
20. 🏙️ Macau 🇲🇴 MacauA-Ma Festival · 15. Apr. – 15. Mai (meist)The 23rd day of the third lunar month at the A-Ma Temple below the Barra: incense by the armful, Cantonese opera on a bamboo stage built for the week, and the fishing families back in town for it.71
21. 🏖️ Nha Trang 🇻🇳 VietnamPo Nagar temple festival · 25. März – 5. Mai (meist)The Cham towers above the river hold three days of offerings, processions and dance in the third lunar month, drawing pilgrims from across the south-central coast.71
22. 🏙️ Bengaluru 🇮🇳 IndienUgadi · 15. März – 15. Apr. (meist)The Kannada new year in spring: mango leaves over doorways, bevu-bella eaten bitter and sweet together, and a quiet city for a day as offices and most restaurants close.70
23. 🏙️ Amritsar 🇮🇳 IndienBaisakhi · 13.–14. Apr.The wheat harvest and the founding of the Khalsa land on the same day, and Punjab converges on the Golden Temple for it.69
24. 🏙️ Ninh Bình 🇻🇳 VietnamHoa Lư Festival · 25. März – 25. Apr. (meist)The old capital marks the Dinh and Le kings with processions between the two temples and boat and palanquin rites on the Hoang Long river.69
25. 🏝️ Gili-Inseln 🇮🇩 IndonesienNyepi stops the Bali boats · 5. März – 5. Apr. (meist)The Gilis are not Hindu and carry on as normal, but Bali shuts for the day and no fast boat leaves Padangbai or Serangan.68

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1. 🏙️ Madrid 🇪🇸 SpanienFiestas de San Isidro · 7.–17. MaiEleven days of free concerts and chotis dancing around the patron saint's day on 15 May, centred on the Pradera de San Isidro and Las Vistillas rather than the tourist streets.95
2. 🏝️ Teneriffa 🇪🇸 SpanienCorpus Christi carpets · 25. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)La Orotava lays a carpet of coloured volcanic sand from Teide across its town hall square for one day, built over a week and swept away the same evening.94
3. 🏝️ Cagliari 🇮🇹 ItalienFesta di Sant'Efisio · 1.–4. MaiOn 1 May the saint is carried out of the city towards Nora behind thousands of Sardinians in the costume of their own village, and the whole island turns up to watch it pass.94
4. 🏖️ Saint-Tropez 🇫🇷 FrankreichLa Bravade · 16.–18. MaiThree days of musket salvos, processions and eighteenth-century uniform for the town's patron saint, on the same dates since the sixteenth century.94
5. 🏙️ Brasília 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta do Divino in Planaltina · 5. Mai – 15. Juni (meist)Pentecost festival in Planaltina, the old town that predates Brasilia, listed as DF heritage: rural and street folias ride with the banners and meet in the Encontro das Bandeiras, drawing crowds of well over a hundred thousand.93
6. 🏖️ Alicante 🇪🇸 SpanienRomeria de la Santa Faz · 1. Apr. – 5. Mai (meist)On the second Thursday after Easter a couple of hundred thousand people walk the eight kilometres out to the monastery from dawn, carrying rosemary.93
7. 🏙️ Toledo 🇪🇸 SpanienCorpus Christi · 20. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)The city's biggest day: awnings strung over the route, walls hung with tapestries, thyme and rosemary underfoot and the cathedral monstrance carried through.93
8. 🏝️ Ajaccio 🇫🇷 FrankreichSaint-Erasme, the fishermen's feast · 30. Mai – 2. Juni (meist)The fishermen carry their patron down to the port at the end of May, and on 2 June the statue goes out into the gulf with a following of boats before the blessing.93
9. 🏝️ Olbia 🇮🇹 ItalienSan Simplicio · 12.–18. MaiThe town's own days around the granite Romanesque basilica: a procession, horse races and a mussel supper laid out in the streets.93
10. 🏙️ Bari 🇮🇹 ItalienFesta di San Nicola · 6.–10. MaiThe city's patron is carried to the sea and out on a fishing boat, then back to the basilica crypt, over three days in May.93
11. 🏙️ Niš 🇷🇸 SerbienCity feast of Constantine and Helena · 30. Mai – 5. Juni (meist)Nis, Constantine's birthplace, celebrates its patron saints on 3 June with a week of church services, folk ensembles, concerts and sports around the fortress and centre.93
12. 🏙️ Cochabamba 🇧🇴 BolivienSanta Vera Cruz Tatala · 2.–3. MaiAt the sanctuary on the road to Valle Hermoso, pilgrims ask the Tatala for children, harvests and livestock, and women trade improvised coplas.92
13. 🏙️ Granada 🇪🇸 SpanienDia de la Cruz · 1.–5. MaiFlower crosses in the squares of the Realejo and the Albaicin on 3 May, each with a bar and a sound system beside it.92
14. 🏙️ Sevilla 🇪🇸 SpanienCorpus Christi · 25. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)A local public holiday: the silver monstrance and the dancing seises leave the cathedral early in the morning, on streets covered in rosemary.90
15. 🏙️ Ouro Preto 🇧🇷 BrasilienCorpus Christi sawdust carpets · 20. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)Overnight before the Thursday procession residents cover about three kilometres of the old streets with carpets of coloured sawdust, coffee grounds and flowers.90
16. 🏖️ Larnaka 🇨🇾 Republik ZypernKataklysmos · 20. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)Cyprus keeps Pentecost as a water festival and Larnaca's is the big one: days of stalls and boat races along Finikoudes, and strangers throwing water over each other.89
17. 🏝️ Capri 🇮🇹 ItalienSan Costanzo · 13.–15. MaiThe island's patron is carried through Capri and down to Marina Grande on the 14th, a procession the residents put on for themselves rather than for the ferry crowd.89
18. 🏙️ Córdoba 🇪🇸 SpanienCruces de Mayo · 28. Apr. – 5. Mai (meist)Flower-covered crosses go up in the squares at the start of May, each with a bar beside it, and the city drinks outdoors for four nights.89
19. 🏙️ Guanajuato 🇲🇽 MexikoFiesta of Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato · 1.–31. MaiMay is the month of the city's patroness: neighbourhoods and trade guilds walk in pilgrimage to the Basilica on Plaza de la Paz day after day, ending on 31 May with dawn bells, serenades and mass for her coronation anniversary.87
20. 🏙️ Sendai 🇯🇵 JapanSendai Aoba Matsuri · 15.–20. Mai (meist)The third weekend of May: sparrow dancing through the centre on the Saturday, floats and samurai on the Sunday.87
21. 🏝️ Ponta Delgada 🇵🇹 PortugalSenhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres · 25. Apr. – 5. Juni (meist)The largest religious festival in the Azores, on the fifth Sunday after Easter.86
22. 🏙️ San Miguel de Allende 🇲🇽 MexikoSanta Cruz del Valle del Maiz · 20.–31. Mai (meist)One of the town's oldest barrios, rooted in Otomi and Chichimeca families, honours the Holy Cross in late May with conchero dances, mock battles between 'Indians' and soldiers, a greased pole and fireworks, asking for good rains ahead of planting.86
23. 🏙️ Präfektur Tokio 🇯🇵 JapanSanja Matsuri · 13.–22. Mai (meist)Asakusa's own festival, three days on the third weekend of May: a hundred-odd portable shrines shouldered through the lanes around Sensoji, and close to two million people there to watch them go.85
24. 🏙️ Kyōto 🇯🇵 JapanAoi Matsuri · 15. MaiA Heian-costume procession walks from the Imperial Palace to the Kamo shrines on 15 May.85
25. 🏙️ Cuenca 🇪🇨 EcuadorCorpus Christi and the Septenario · 20. Mai – 30. Juni (meist)Seven days from Corpus Christi, Parque Calderón fills with stalls selling nothing but sweets, and a paper hot-air balloon and a castillo of fireworks go up outside the cathedral each night.84

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1. 🏙️ Brasília 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta do Divino in Planaltina · 5. Mai – 15. Juni (meist)Pentecost festival in Planaltina, the old town that predates Brasilia, listed as DF heritage: rural and street folias ride with the banners and meet in the Encontro das Bandeiras, drawing crowds of well over a hundred thousand.96
2. 🏙️ Coimbra 🇵🇹 PortugalSantos Populares · 1.–30. Juni (meist)June brings neighbourhood arraiais with grilled sardines, basil pots and dancing, centred on Santo António dos Olivais for the 13th and the marchas of Norton de Matos.94
3. 🏙️ Lissabon 🇵🇹 PortugalSantos Populares · 1.–30. JuniStreet parties through Alfama, Graca and Madragoa all month, peaking on the night of 12 June for Santo Antonio: charcoal sardines, paper garlands and marches down Avenida da Liberdade.93
4. 🏙️ Braga 🇵🇹 PortugalSão João de Braga · 15.–24. JuniA week of giants, rusgas and cavaquinho bands ending on 24 June, which is the municipal holiday and closes the offices.93
5. 🏖️ Marbella 🇪🇸 SpanienFeria de San Bernabe · 8.–16. Juni (meist)The patron saint's week around 11 June: a daytime feria in the old town in flamenco dress and horse carriages, then a separate night fairground out by the river until dawn.92
6. 🏝️ Teneriffa 🇪🇸 SpanienCorpus Christi carpets · 25. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)La Orotava lays a carpet of coloured volcanic sand from Teide across its town hall square for one day, built over a week and swept away the same evening.91
7. 🏙️ Porto 🇵🇹 PortugalFesta de Sao Joao · 22.–25. JuniThe best street party in Portugal and the strangest: the whole city out all night on 23 June hitting strangers on the head with squeaky plastic hammers, grilled sardines, fireworks over the Douro at midnight.90
8. 🏙️ Antananarivo 🇲🇬 MadagaskarFamadihana season · 15. Juni – 30. Sep. (meist)Between harvest and the rains, highland families open the tomb, rewrap the ancestors in fresh silk and carry them round the village behind a brass band.90
9. 🏝️ Ponta Delgada 🇵🇹 PortugalSenhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres · 25. Apr. – 5. Juni (meist)The largest religious festival in the Azores, on the fifth Sunday after Easter.90
10. 🏙️ Ouro Preto 🇧🇷 BrasilienCorpus Christi sawdust carpets · 20. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)Overnight before the Thursday procession residents cover about three kilometres of the old streets with carpets of coloured sawdust, coffee grounds and flowers.90
11. 🏙️ Brügge 🇧🇪 BelgienProcession of the Holy Blood · 30. Apr. – 5. Juni (meist)On Ascension Day the relic is carried through the centre with some thousands of costumed townspeople behind it, watched by about thirty-five thousand.89
12. 🏝️ Ajaccio 🇫🇷 FrankreichSaint-Erasme, the fishermen's feast · 30. Mai – 2. Juni (meist)The fishermen carry their patron down to the port at the end of May, and on 2 June the statue goes out into the gulf with a following of boats before the blessing.89
13. 🏙️ Jerewan 🇦🇲 ArmenienVardavar · 25. Juni – 31. Juli (meist)For one day in high summer anyone on the street is fair game for a bucket of water, children and government ministers alike.88
14. 🏙️ Asunción 🇵🇾 ParaguaySan Juan Ára · 15.–30. Juni (meist)Paraguay's favourite winter fiesta: fire games, walking on hot coals at midnight on the 23rd, the toro candil and plates of mbeju and pastel mandi'o.88
15. 🏝️ Menorca 🇪🇸 SpanienFestes de Sant Joan, Ciutadella · 21.–25. JuniOn 23 and 24 June riders on black Menorcan stallions rear into a crowd packed shoulder to shoulder in Placa des Born.87
16. 🏖️ Mundaka 🇪🇸 SpanienFiestas de San Pedro · 24. Juni – 6. Juli (meist)Mundaka's patron feast peaks on 29 June with mass, the honour aurresku and a procession with txistularis, then days of txosnas, concerts, rural sports and the greasy-pole game over the harbour.87
17. 🏙️ Valletta 🇲🇹 MaltaFesta season · 1. Juni – 15. Sep.Every parish takes a weekend for its patron saint: banners across the streets, band marches and fireworks made in the village's own factory.85
18. 🏙️ Toledo 🇪🇸 SpanienCorpus Christi · 20. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)The city's biggest day: awnings strung over the route, walls hung with tapestries, thyme and rosemary underfoot and the cathedral monstrance carried through.85
19. 🏙️ Hallstatt 🇦🇹 ÖsterreichCorpus Christi boat procession · 20. Mai – 25. Juni (meist)The Thursday procession leaves the church and continues onto the lake in decorated boats, stopping at four blessing stations.85
20. 🥾 Ollantaytambo 🇵🇪 PeruSenor de Choquekillka · 10. Mai – 20. Juni (meist)The town's own festival over Pentecost: four days of seventeen dance troupes, bullfights and fireworks in a village of a few thousand, with everyone home for it.85
21. 🏙️ Cuenca 🇪🇨 EcuadorCorpus Christi and the Septenario · 20. Mai – 30. Juni (meist)Seven days from Corpus Christi, Parque Calderón fills with stalls selling nothing but sweets, and a paper hot-air balloon and a castillo of fireworks go up outside the cathedral each night.85
22. 🏙️ Granada 🇪🇸 SpanienFeria del Corpus · 25. Mai – 15. Juni (meist)Granada's own feria, tied to Corpus Christi sixty days after Easter: a tarasca parade in the morning and casetas on the Almanjayar fairground until dawn.85
23. 🏙️ Niš 🇷🇸 SerbienCity feast of Constantine and Helena · 30. Mai – 5. Juni (meist)Nis, Constantine's birthplace, celebrates its patron saints on 3 June with a week of church services, folk ensembles, concerts and sports around the fortress and centre.85
24. 🏙️ Vatikanstadt VatikanstadtSaints Peter and Paul · 29. JuniThe patronal feast on 29 June is a public holiday on both sides of the wall, so the museums close and much of Rome does too.85
25. 🏙️ Oase San Pedro de Atacama 🇨🇱 ChileFiesta de San Pedro y San Pablo · 27.–30. JuniThe village's patron saint is carried round the adobe church on 29 June with Atacameno dances, a rodeo and three days of mass and brass.84

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1. 🏙️ Santiago de Compostela 🇪🇸 SpanienFesta do Apostolo · 20.–26. JuliFireworks off the Obradoiro facade on the night of 24 July, then the saint's day on the 25th, which is also Galicia's national day.94
2. 🏖️ Peniche 🇵🇹 PortugalNossa Senhora da Boa Viagem · 28. Juli – 6. Aug. (meist)The fishing town's own festival, built around the only night-time sea procession in Portugal: twenty-odd lit and dressed trawlers, then the blessing of the fleet.93
3. 🏖️ Iquique 🇨🇱 ChileFiesta de La Tirana · 10.–20. JuliA village 70 km inland takes a quarter of a million people and two hundred masked dance societies for the Virgen del Carmen on 16 July.93
4. 🏙️ Guatapé 🇨🇴 KolumbienFiestas de la Virgen del Carmen · 10.–20. Juli (meist)The town's patron saint carried through the zocalo streets on 16 July, with a boat procession on the reservoir and a week of music around it.93
5. 🏙️ Jekaterinburg 🇷🇺 RusslandTsar's Days procession · 15.–19. JuliOn the night of 16–17 July, the anniversary of the Romanov killings, tens of thousands walk the twenty-one kilometres from the church built over the cellar out to the mine at Ganina Yama.91
6. 🏝️ Ponta Delgada 🇵🇹 PortugalHoly Spirit festas · 1. Mai – 15. Aug. (meist)Every village keeps a painted imperio chapel, and through the summer each takes its turn to crown a child and hand out soup and sweet bread to anyone who turns up.91
7. 🏖️ Mundaka 🇪🇸 SpanienFiestas de San Pedro · 24. Juni – 6. Juli (meist)Mundaka's patron feast peaks on 29 June with mass, the honour aurresku and a procession with txistularis, then days of txosnas, concerts, rural sports and the greasy-pole game over the harbour.91
8. 🏙️ Villa de Leyva 🇨🇴 KolumbienFiestas de la Virgen del Carmen · 12.–17. Juli (meist)The patron of drivers gets processions, masses, fireworks and a parade of decorated trucks and floats with a blessing of vehicles.90
9. 🏖️ Armação dos Búzios 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta de Sant'Anna · 22.–28. Juli (meist)The patron saint's days at the old church above the harbour, kept by the fishing families rather than by the beach clubs, and one of the few times the town looks like the village it was.89
10. 🏙️ Coimbra 🇵🇹 PortugalFestas da Rainha Santa Isabel · 1.–15. Juli (meist)The city's own fortnight in early July.88
11. 🏙️ Antananarivo 🇲🇬 MadagaskarFamadihana season · 15. Juni – 30. Sep. (meist)Between harvest and the rains, highland families open the tomb, rewrap the ancestors in fresh silk and carry them round the village behind a brass band.87
12. 🏝️ Ilha Grande 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta de Santana · 24.–27. Juli (meist)Ilha Grande's patron-saint feast on Praia da Freguesia de Santana, unbroken since 1796: dawn bells and fireworks, a morning procession, a community lunch, and forro music into the afternoon.86
13. 🏖️ Marbella 🇪🇸 SpanienVirgen del Carmen · 16. JuliThe town's patron saint goes to sea on 16 July: the image leaves the Bajadilla fishing harbour around seven in the evening with a flotilla behind it, runs to Puerto Banus and back, and the beaches line up to watch.85
14. 🥾 Leh 🇮🇳 IndienHemis Festival · 15. Juni – 20. Juli (meist)Two days of cham mask dances in the courtyard at Hemis for Padmasambhava's birthday, on the tenth day of the fifth Tibetan month.82
15. 🏙️ Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFiesta de Santiago on Taquile · 24.–31. Juli (meist)Taquile island's patron saint feast, centred on the 25th, is when the islanders dance in their finest weaving to panpipes and drums.82
16. 🥾 Dilidschan 🇦🇲 ArmenienVardavar · 28. Juni – 28. Juli (meist)Ninety-eight days after Easter, and the one day of the year when anyone can throw a bucket of water over anyone else.82
17. 🏙️ Girona 🇪🇸 SpanienSant Jaume (Saint James's Day) · 25. JuliOne of only two official local festival days on the city's own calendar, alongside Sant Narcis in the autumn.81
18. 🏙️ Palermo 🇮🇹 ItalienFestino di Santa Rosalia · 10.–15. JuliThe city's own week, u Fistinu: a wagon carrying the saint is hauled down the Cassaro on the night of 14 July and the whole of Palermo walks behind it to fireworks over the Foro Italico.80
19. 🏙️ Matera 🇮🇹 ItalienFesta della Bruna · 28. Juni – 2. JuliThe one day Matera belongs to Materans.80
20. 🏝️ Lamu Town 🇰🇪 KeniaMaulidi · 15. Juli – 30. Sep. (meist)The biggest Maulidi on the Swahili coast: a week of recitation and poetry, donkey and dhow races, and a procession to the tomb of Habib Swaleh.80
21. 🏙️ Jerewan 🇦🇲 ArmenienVardavar · 25. Juni – 31. Juli (meist)For one day in high summer anyone on the street is fair game for a bucket of water, children and government ministers alike.79
22. 🏙️ Antigua Guatemala 🇬🇹 GuatemalaFeast of Santiago · 1.–25. Juli (meist)The city keeps its patron saint through July with processions, concerts and fireworks, building to 25 July, a local holiday when many offices shut.77
23. 🏙️ Valletta 🇲🇹 MaltaFesta season · 1. Juni – 15. Sep.Every parish takes a weekend for its patron saint: banners across the streets, band marches and fireworks made in the village's own factory.77
24. 🏙️ Kandy 🇱🇰 Sri LankaEsala Perahera · 15. Juli – 25. Aug. (meist)Ten nights of processions building to the Nikini full moon, with tuskers, whip-crackers, drummers and fire dancers on a route the town hands over entirely.74
25. 🏖️ João Pessoa 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta das Neves · 26. Juli – 5. Aug. (meist)The patron saint's ten days end on 5 August, the city's own birthday, with a solemn mass and procession from the Basilica Nossa Senhora das Neves through the historic centre.73

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1. 🏖️ Iquique 🇨🇱 ChileSan Lorenzo de Tarapacá · 1.–11. Aug. (meist)Pilgrims from Chile, Peru and Bolivia pour into a desert village about a hundred kilometres inland for the miners' saint on 10 August, with dance societies playing through the night.95
2. 🏙️ Antananarivo 🇲🇬 MadagaskarFamadihana season · 15. Juni – 30. Sep. (meist)Between harvest and the rains, highland families open the tomb, rewrap the ancestors in fresh silk and carry them round the village behind a brass band.94
3. 🏖️ Peniche 🇵🇹 PortugalNossa Senhora da Boa Viagem · 28. Juli – 6. Aug. (meist)The fishing town's own festival, built around the only night-time sea procession in Portugal: twenty-odd lit and dressed trawlers, then the blessing of the fleet.94
4. 🏖️ Ericeira 🇵🇹 PortugalFestas da Senhora da Boa Viagem · 5.–18. Aug. (meist)The fishermen's patron carried down to the water on the evening of 15 August, weather allowing, with salt-and-sand carpets laid through the streets and fireworks off the cliff.93
5. 🏙️ Cochabamba 🇧🇴 BolivienVirgen de Urkupiña · 14.–18. Aug.Bolivia's biggest pilgrimage after Copacabana fills Quillacollo, half an hour west, for three days of dancing from dawn.91
6. 🏙️ Guatemala-Stadt 🇬🇹 GuatemalaFeria de Jocotenango · 10.–20. Aug. (meist)The capital's patron day on the fifteenth is a public holiday in Guatemala City and nowhere else in the country, with a fairground and rides at the Hipódromo del Norte for a week around it.87
7. 🏙️ Asunción 🇵🇾 ParaguayFounding of Asunción · 5.–15. Aug.The city's founding day is also the feast of its patron, Our Lady of the Assumption: a river procession on the Paraguay, a land procession to the cathedral and a municipal programme of concerts and fairs.86
8. 🏖️ El Jadida 🇲🇦 MarokkoMoussem Moulay Abdallah Amghar · 1.–20. Aug. (meist)A week of tents, horses and gunpowder on the plain south of town, with fantasia troupes riding at the crowd in line.85
9. 🏝️ Ponta Delgada 🇵🇹 PortugalHoly Spirit festas · 1. Mai – 15. Aug. (meist)Every village keeps a painted imperio chapel, and through the summer each takes its turn to crown a child and hand out soup and sweet bread to anyone who turns up.84
10. 🥾 Tilcara 🇦🇷 ArgentinienDía de la Pachamama · 1. Aug.On the first of August households open a hole in the ground and feed it — food, coca, alcohol — before anyone eats.84
11. 🥾 Chachapoyas 🇵🇪 PeruFiesta of the Virgen Asunta · 1.–15. Aug.The town's patron feast fills the first half of August with processions, dance contests and food fairs around the Plaza de Armas, closing with a procession to her sanctuary on the 15th.82
12. 🏙️ Potosí 🇧🇴 BolivienCh'utillos · 22.–31. Aug. (meist)Bolivia's second-largest festival: three days of village troupes and city fraternities dancing the length of Potosí for San Bartolomé, with the ride out to the Cueva del Diablo.81
13. 🏙️ Cleveland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenFeast of the Assumption · 13.–16. Aug.Four days around Holy Rosary in Little Italy, built on the 15th of August and running the same way for over a century: procession, pasta and Mayfield Road closed to cars.81
14. 🏝️ Lamu Town 🇰🇪 KeniaMaulidi · 15. Juli – 30. Sep. (meist)The biggest Maulidi on the Swahili coast: a week of recitation and poetry, donkey and dhow races, and a procession to the tomb of Habib Swaleh.80
15. 🏖️ Mombasa 🇰🇪 KeniaMaulidi (Mawlid al-Nabi) · 20.–30. Aug. (meist)Mawlid al-Nabi, the Prophet's birthday, is marked in Mombasa with mosque gatherings, Quran recitation, and family visits; the date shifts with the Islamic calendar.79
16. 🏙️ Yogyakarta 🇮🇩 IndonesienSekaten and Grebeg Maulud · 1. Aug. – 15. Okt. (meist)The kraton marks the Prophet's birthday with a month-long night fair on the alun-alun and a procession of rice mountains that the crowd is allowed to tear apart at the end.79
17. 🏖️ João Pessoa 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta das Neves · 26. Juli – 5. Aug. (meist)The patron saint's ten days end on 5 August, the city's own birthday, with a solemn mass and procession from the Basilica Nossa Senhora das Neves through the historic centre.79
18. 🏝️ Morro de São Paulo 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta de Nossa Senhora da Luz · 30. Aug. – 8. Sep. (meist)The village's patron saint closes a novena on 8 September with a solemn mass, a procession and free shows on Praça Aureliano Lima, with people coming over from the rest of the Cairu islands.79
19. 🥾 Copacabana 🇧🇴 BolivienVirgen de Copacabana in August · 1.–8. Aug.The Virgin was declared patroness of Bolivia in August and tens of thousands walk in for the first week of the month, which runs straight into the national holiday on the sixth.78
20. ⛷️ Chamonix-Mont-Blanc 🇫🇷 FrankreichFete des Guides · 13.–16. Aug. (meist)The valley's guides parade and are blessed around 15 August, a working ceremony rather than a show, with fireworks off the Brevent side afterwards.77
21. 🥾 Chengguan 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaShoton Festival · 1.–25. Aug. (meist)The yogurt festival opens at dawn with a giant thangka unrolled down the hillside at Drepung, then runs a week of Tibetan opera in the Norbulingka gardens.77
22. 🏙️ Kandy 🇱🇰 Sri LankaEsala Perahera · 15. Juli – 25. Aug. (meist)Ten nights of processions building to the Nikini full moon, with tuskers, whip-crackers, drummers and fire dancers on a route the town hands over entirely.75
23. 🏝️ Korfu 🇬🇷 GriechenlandSaint Spyridon litany · 11. Aug.One of the four days a year the saint's body is carried through the old town, with every philharmonic band on the island behind it.75
24. 🏝️ Zakynthos 🇬🇷 GriechenlandAgios Dionysios · 23.–25. Aug.The island's patron is carried through Zakynthos town on 24 August with a fireworks finale over the harbour, repeated in a quieter form on 17 December.75
25. 🏖️ Maceió 🇧🇷 BrasilienNossa Senhora dos Prazeres · 17.–27. Aug.Ten days of masses for the city's patron saint, ending on 27 August, a municipal holiday, with a procession from the cathedral through the old centre towards Jaragua.75

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1. 🏙️ Antananarivo 🇲🇬 MadagaskarFamadihana season · 15. Juni – 30. Sep. (meist)Between harvest and the rains, highland families open the tomb, rewrap the ancestors in fresh silk and carry them round the village behind a brass band.95
2. 🏙️ Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienFerias y Fiestas · 7.–21. Sep.Two weeks around the Virgen de la Vega on 8 September: concerts in the squares, a bullfighting week and the students back in town.94
3. 🏙️ Cafayate 🇦🇷 ArgentinienFiesta of La Sentadita · 28. Sep. – 7. Okt.The novena for the town's patroness ends on 7 October with a procession of the seated Virgin, a parade of tractors, taxis and gaucho riders, and pilgrims arriving on foot and bicycle from across the Calchaquí valley.94
4. 🏖️ Nazaré 🇵🇹 PortugalRomaria de Nossa Senhora da Nazare · 5.–10. Sep.The town's pilgrimage week up at Sitio around 8 September: processions, folk dancing, a fairground and bullfights in the square-shaped arena on the cliff.92
5. 🏙️ Sucre 🇧🇴 BolivienFiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe · 5.–15. Sep. (meist)The city's patron gets an entrada of dance troupes and brass through the centre in early September, days of it, with the jewelled image carried out of the cathedral.90
6. 🏙️ Salta 🇦🇷 ArgentinienFiesta del Milagro · 6.–16. Sep.The novena starts on the 6th and the province walks in, some of it for days, for the processions in the middle of the month.89
7. 🏖️ Tarifa 🇪🇸 SpanienFeria de Nuestra Senora de la Luz · 1.–10. Sep. (meist)The town's own week at the start of September: a fairground, horses through the old walls and a week when Tarifa belongs to Tarifenos rather than to the kite crowd.88
8. 🏝️ Fuerteventura 🇪🇸 SpanienRomeria de la Virgen de la Pena · 10.–22. Sep. (meist)The island's patron draws everyone inland to Vega de Rio Palmas on the third Saturday of September, on foot through the barranco.87
9. 🏙️ San Marino San MarinoFeast of Saint Marinus · 3. Sep.The national day on 3 September marks the founding of the republic in 301, with a procession, a torchlit evening and everything official shut.87
10. 🏙️ Barcelona 🇪🇸 SpanienLa Mercè · 20.–28. Sep. (meist)The city's own festa major: human towers on Plaça Sant Jaume, the correfoc fire run, and free concerts across several stages.84
11. 🏙️ Salzburg 🇦🇹 ÖsterreichRupertikirtag · 19.–28. Sep. (meist)The city's patron saint fair takes over the squares around the cathedral for five days in late September: fairground rides in the old town, and the locals rather than the festival crowd.84
12. 🥾 Taos 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSan Geronimo feast day · 29.–30. Sep.The pueblo's feast day at the end of September, with a trade fair, foot races and a pole climb.84
13. 🏝️ Lanzarote 🇪🇸 SpanienVirgen de los Dolores romeria · 12.–18. Sep.The island's patron is walked to the church at Mancha Blanca on 15 September, a thanksgiving for the eighteenth-century eruptions that stopped at its doorstep.84
14. 🏙️ Palermo 🇮🇹 ItalienAcchianata to Monte Pellegrino · 3.–4. Sep.The quieter half of the Rosalia year: on the night of 3 September people walk barefoot up the old mule track to the sanctuary on the mountain, arriving for dawn on the 4th.82
15. 🏙️ Neapel 🇮🇹 ItalienFesta di Piedigrotta · 7.–19. Sep. (meist)Historic festival honouring the Madonna di Piedigrotta near Mergellina, dating to the 1600s, that in the 1800s became the launchpad of the Neapolitan song contest behind classics like 'O Sole Mio.80
16. 🏝️ Menorca 🇪🇸 SpanienFestes de Gracia, Mao · 7.–9. Sep.The last of the island's horse fiestas and the one that closes the summer, in the capital rather than Ciutadella.80
17. 🏝️ Morro de São Paulo 🇧🇷 BrasilienFesta de Nossa Senhora da Luz · 30. Aug. – 8. Sep. (meist)The village's patron saint closes a novena on 8 September with a solemn mass, a procession and free shows on Praça Aureliano Lima, with people coming over from the rest of the Cairu islands.80
18. 🏝️ Lamu Town 🇰🇪 KeniaMaulidi · 15. Juli – 30. Sep. (meist)The biggest Maulidi on the Swahili coast: a week of recitation and poetry, donkey and dhow races, and a procession to the tomb of Habib Swaleh.79
19. 🏙️ Valletta 🇲🇹 MaltaFesta season · 1. Juni – 15. Sep.Every parish takes a weekend for its patron saint: banners across the streets, band marches and fireworks made in the village's own factory.77
20. 🏙️ Bengaluru 🇮🇳 IndienGanesha Chaturthi · 25. Aug. – 20. Sep. (meist)Pandals go up on every other street corner for ten days and the immersion processions close roads on the last night.73
21. 🏙️ Yogyakarta 🇮🇩 IndonesienSekaten and Grebeg Maulud · 1. Aug. – 15. Okt. (meist)The kraton marks the Prophet's birthday with a month-long night fair on the alun-alun and a procession of rice mountains that the crowd is allowed to tear apart at the end.73
22. 🏝️ Isla Margarita 🇻🇪 VenezuelaFiesta de la Virgen del Valle · 1.–15. Sep.The patron of the island and of the eastern seaboard is honoured on 8 September, with fishing boats dressed overall in procession and pilgrims filling El Valle del Espíritu Santo for the days around it.73
23. 🏙️ Mysuru 🇮🇳 IndienMysuru Dasara · 25. Sep. – 25. Okt. (meist)Ten nights with the palace lit end to end, closing with the Jamboo Savari — the goddess on a golden howdah, walked five kilometres to Bannimantap behind caparisoned elephants.73
24. 🥾 Thimphu 🇧🇹 BhutanThimphu Tshechu · 5. Sep. – 10. Okt. (meist)Three days of masked dances in the courtyard of Tashichho Dzong, with the whole valley in its best kira and gho.67
25. 🥾 Lalibela 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienMeskel · 26.–28. Sep.A demera bonfire is lit in the churchyard on the eve of 27 September, smaller than the one in Addis and far closer to it.66

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1. 🏙️ Cafayate 🇦🇷 ArgentinienFiesta of La Sentadita · 28. Sep. – 7. Okt.The novena for the town's patroness ends on 7 October with a procession of the seated Virgin, a parade of tractors, taxis and gaucho riders, and pilgrims arriving on foot and bicycle from across the Calchaquí valley.96
2. 🏙️ Lima 🇵🇪 PeruSenor de los Milagros · 1. Okt. – 1. Nov.Hundreds of thousands walk behind the image in purple through the centre, with the main days on 18, 19 and 28 October.94
3. 🏙️ Guanajuato 🇲🇽 MexikoDía de Muertos · 30. Okt. – 3. Nov.Altars in the university and the plazas, marigolds on the graves at the Santa Paula cemetery, and the mummy museum next door doing brisk trade.93
4. 🏙️ Ica 🇵🇪 PeruSeñor de Luren processions · 14.–28. Okt. (meist)The city's Cristo Moreno is carried through the streets on the third Monday of October and again the Sunday after, setting off at dusk once the desert heat drops.92
5. 🏙️ Mexiko-Stadt 🇲🇽 MexikoDay of the Dead · 31. Okt. – 2. Nov.Altars everywhere, a parade down Reforma that the city invented for a film, and the older, quieter version out in Mixquic and the southern boroughs.89
6. 🏙️ Girona 🇪🇸 SpanienFires de Sant Narcis · 23. Okt. – 3. Nov. (meist)The city's own ten-day fair around the patron's day on 29 October: barraques by the river, a fairground on the Devesa and the whole province in town after dark.89
7. 🏙️ Morelia 🇲🇽 MexikoNoche de Muertos · 30. Okt. – 3. Nov.The Michoacan version is the one on the postcards: candlelit graveyards on the islands of Lake Patzcuaro, an hour and a half west.89
8. 🏙️ Yazd 🇮🇷 IranMehregan (Autumn Festival) · 28. Sep. – 8. Okt. (meist)An ancient Zoroastrian thanksgiving festival honouring Mithra, marked with ceremonies at Yazd's fire temples and gatherings among the city's Zoroastrian families, one of Iran's largest such communities.88
9. 🏙️ Oaxaca 🇲🇽 MexikoDay of the Dead · 31. Okt. – 2. Nov.Vigils in the valley cemeteries from the night of 31 October; rooms go a year ahead.86
10. 🏙️ Guadalajara 🇲🇽 MexikoRomería de Zapopan · 11.–13. Okt.On 12 October the Virgin is walked back from the cathedral to her basilica in Zapopan after five months touring the parishes, and something over a million people walk with her.86
11. 🏙️ Nagasaki 🇯🇵 JapanNagasaki Kunchi · 7.–9. Okt.Three fixed days at Suwa Shrine since 1634, with the Chinese and Dutch borrowings that no other Japanese festival has.85
12. 🏙️ Salt Lake City 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenGeneral Conference (October) · 2.–5. Okt. (meist)The autumn half of the same weekend, on the first weekend of October.84
13. 🏙️ San Salvador de Jujuy 🇦🇷 ArgentinienVirgen de Rio Blanco y Paypaya · 1.–31. Okt.Every Sunday in October the faithful walk, many barefoot, to the patron saint's sanctuary at Rio Blanco, a few kilometres outside the city.83
14. 🏙️ Kyōto 🇯🇵 JapanJidai Matsuri · 22. Okt.Two thousand people in costume walk a thousand years of Kyoto history from the palace to Heian Shrine on 22 October, oldest period last.82
15. 🏙️ Oase Siwa 🇪🇬 ÄgyptenSiyaha, the reconciliation festival · 1.–31. Okt. (meist)Three days around the October full moon when the oasis gathers at the foot of Dakrour to eat, sing zikr and settle the year's arguments.82
16. 🏙️ Puno 🇵🇪 PeruTata Pancho in Yunguyo · 6.–14. Okt. (meist)Yunguyo, on the Bolivian border about two and a half hours away, honours San Francisco de Borja with a procession on 10 October, zampona contests and more than fifty troupes of sikumorenos, morenada and diablada.79
17. 🏝️ Avarua CookinselnGospel Day (Nuku) · 25.–27. Okt.26 October marks the arrival of the missionaries in 1821.77
18. 🏝️ Aitutaki CookinselnGospel Day (Nuku) · 24.–27. Okt.The missionaries landed here in 1821, so 26 October is Aitutaki's own day: the churches stage the arrival as drama and song, and the shops keep the holiday.76
19. 🏙️ Amritsar 🇮🇳 IndienLangur Mela · 20. Sep. – 25. Okt. (meist)For the ten days of autumn Navratri, children dressed as langurs in red and silver, with painted faces and tails, are brought to the Bada Hanuman temple beside Durgiana to fulfil their parents' vows.75
20. 🏙️ Belém 🇧🇷 BrasilienCírio de Nazaré · 6.–28. Okt. (meist)On the second Sunday of October a couple of million people walk behind the rope with the image, and the fortnight around it is the city's real Christmas: family lunches, closed streets, no beds left.75
21. 🏙️ Takayama 🇯🇵 JapanAutumn Takayama Festival · 9.–10. Okt.The Hachiman half of the same pair, on fixed dates in October and generally the better weather of the two.75
22. 🥾 Thimphu 🇧🇹 BhutanThimphu Tshechu · 5. Sep. – 10. Okt. (meist)Three days of masked dances in the courtyard of Tashichho Dzong, with the whole valley in its best kira and gho.74
23. 🥾 Baños 🇪🇨 EcuadorFiestas de la Virgen de Agua Santa · 1.–31. Okt.October belongs to the basilica: a novena, nightly verbenas, chicha handed round the streets and a candle-and-flower parade, with pilgrims arriving from across Ecuador to thank the Virgin for a favour granted.73
24. 🥾 Chengguan 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaLhabab Duchen · 20. Okt. – 25. Nov. (meist)One of the four great merit days: the kora circuits round the Jokhang and the Potala move shoulder to shoulder from before dawn and everyone gives something away.72
25. 🏙️ Nikkō 🇯🇵 JapanToshogu Autumn Grand Festival · 16.–17. Okt.The shrine's autumn counterpart to the May festival: horseback archery on the 16th and the procession of a thousand men in samurai armour on the 17th, usually just as the colour starts up at Lake Chuzenji.72

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1. 🏙️ Lima 🇵🇪 PeruSenor de los Milagros · 1. Okt. – 1. Nov.Hundreds of thousands walk behind the image in purple through the centre, with the main days on 18, 19 and 28 October.95
2. 🏙️ Guanajuato 🇲🇽 MexikoDía de Muertos · 30. Okt. – 3. Nov.Altars in the university and the plazas, marigolds on the graves at the Santa Paula cemetery, and the mummy museum next door doing brisk trade.95
3. 🏖️ Iquique 🇨🇱 ChileFiesta de San Andres in Pica · 28.–30. Nov.The oasis town of Pica, a day trip inland, honours its patron saint with the uncorking of the chicha on the 28th, a 5:30 am drum-and-dynamite wake-up on the 29th, candlelit processions and religious dance troupes.95
4. 🏙️ Mexiko-Stadt 🇲🇽 MexikoDay of the Dead · 31. Okt. – 2. Nov.Altars everywhere, a parade down Reforma that the city invented for a film, and the older, quieter version out in Mixquic and the southern boroughs.93
5. 🏙️ Addis Abeba 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienTsome Nebiyat, the Advent fast · 24. Nov. – 6. Jan.The 43-day Fast of the Prophets runs up to Ethiopian Christmas.93
6. 🏙️ Oaxaca 🇲🇽 MexikoDay of the Dead · 31. Okt. – 2. Nov.Vigils in the valley cemeteries from the night of 31 October; rooms go a year ahead.91
7. 🏙️ Morelia 🇲🇽 MexikoNoche de Muertos · 30. Okt. – 3. Nov.The Michoacan version is the one on the postcards: candlelit graveyards on the islands of Lake Patzcuaro, an hour and a half west.91
8. 🏙️ Amritsar 🇮🇳 IndienGuru Nanak Gurpurab · 5.–30. Nov. (meist)Guru Nanak's birth anniversary brings a nagar kirtan through the walled city and an unbroken recitation at the temple.87
9. 🏖️ Benidorm 🇪🇸 SpanienFiestas Mayores Patronales · 8.–20. Nov. (meist)From the second Saturday in November: the penas take over the streets, there is a flower offering and a mock discovery of the Virgin re-enacted on Poniente beach.87
10. 🏙️ Punakha 🇧🇹 BhutanMonk body in winter residence · 15. Nov. – 15. Mai (meist)The Je Khenpo and the Central Monastic Body move down from Thimphu to Punakha Dzong for the winter, arriving in procession around late November and leaving again around May, a custom dating to the Zhabdrung.86
11. 🏙️ La Paz 🇧🇴 BolivienTodos Santos · 1.–2. Nov.Families build home altars for their dead with t'antawawa bread babies, sugarcane and sweets on 1 November, then carry them to the cemeteries on the 2nd, when the Cementerio General fills with music and food.85
12. 🏙️ Varanasi 🇮🇳 IndienChhath Puja · 24. Okt. – 22. Nov. (meist)Four days of fasting for the sun god in Kartik, and the one festival that fills the ghats twice in a day: at sunset, then again before dawn, families standing waist-deep in the river with their offerings.82
13. 🏙️ Potosí 🇧🇴 BolivienTodos Santos · 1.–3. Nov.Potosi keeps All Saints over three days: home altars with t'antawawa bread figures open to visitors on 1 November, then music, food and dancing to send the souls off.82
14. 🥾 Lago de Atitlán 🇬🇹 GuatemalaTodos Santos · 1. Nov.Families spend 1 November in the cemeteries above the lake villages, repainting the graves and eating fiambre among them.80
15. 🏙️ Évora 🇵🇹 PortugalSao Martinho · 11. Nov.Saint Martin's Day is marked with a magusto: chestnuts roasted over fires and the first young wine or agua-pe of the year, in tascas, schools and village squares.79
16. 🏙️ Girona 🇪🇸 SpanienFires de Sant Narcis · 23. Okt. – 3. Nov. (meist)The city's own ten-day fair around the patron's day on 29 October: barraques by the river, a fairground on the Devesa and the whole province in town after dark.78
17. 🏝️ Skiathos 🇬🇷 GriechenlandPanagia Eikonistria · 20.–22. Nov.The island's patronal feast on 21 November, with the icon carried up to the Evangelistria monastery.78
18. 🏙️ Mérida 🇲🇽 MexikoHanal Pixán & Paseo de las Ánimas · 24. Okt. – 2. Nov. (meist)The Maya Day of the Dead: altars laid for children on 31 October and adults on 1 November, and a costumed procession from the General Cemetery to Parque de San Juan.76
19. 🏙️ Vientiane 🇱🇦 LaosThat Luang Festival · 1.–30. Nov. (meist)The country's biggest religious gathering: a week of alms, a wax-castle procession and a fairground around the golden stupa, ending on the November full moon.75
20. 🏙️ Madrid 🇪🇸 SpanienLa Almudena · 9. Nov.The city's own public holiday, with mass and a flower offering at the cathedral.73
21. 🏖️ Playa del Carmen 🇲🇽 MexikoDay of the Dead · 30. Okt. – 2. Nov.The Yucatec version, Hanal Pixan, is a family and cemetery affair rather than a parade.73
22. 🏖️ Cancún 🇲🇽 MexikoHanal Pixán · 31. Okt. – 2. Nov.The Yucatán's own Day of the Dead: altars in the houses, cemeteries lit at night, and mucbipollo baked in a pit oven.72
23. 🥾 Ollantaytambo 🇵🇪 PeruTodos Santos · 1.–2. Nov.Sacred Valley families visit and decorate graves on 1 and 2 November, and the markets sell t'anta wawa, doll-shaped sweet breads made for the dead.72
24. 🏝️ Isla Mujeres 🇲🇽 MexikoFiestas de la Inmaculada · 30. Nov. – 8. Dez.Nine days for the island's patron saint, ending on 8 December with a procession of fishing boats around the bay, fireworks off the malecon and the centre closed to carts.72
25. 🥾 Namche Bazar 🇳🇵 NepalMani Rimdu at Tengboche · 15. Okt. – 20. Nov. (meist)The monastery half a day above Namche dances the masked drama over three public days set by the Tibetan calendar.71

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1. 🏙️ Addis Abeba 🇪🇹 ÄthiopienTsome Nebiyat, the Advent fast · 24. Nov. – 6. Jan.The 43-day Fast of the Prophets runs up to Ethiopian Christmas.92
2. 🏙️ Guanajuato 🇲🇽 MexikoGuadalupe feast and the posadas · 11.–24. Dez.The feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe on 12 December brings masses, fireworks and dancing in church courtyards with food stalls, and the nightly posada processions follow from the 16th until Christmas Eve.92
3. 🏙️ Oaxaca 🇲🇽 MexikoLas Posadas · 16.–24. Dez.Nine nights of processions through the barrios with candles, punch and a pinata at the end of each.91
4. 🏙️ San Cristóbal de las Casas 🇲🇽 MexikoVirgen de Guadalupe processions · 1.–12. Dez.Runners carrying torches come in from the highland villages for twelve days, and the barrio around the Guadalupe church stays up all night on the eleventh.90
5. 🏙️ Arequipa 🇵🇪 PeruWititi dance festival, Chivay · 5.–11. Dez.The Colca Valley town of Chivay, a half-day's drive from Arequipa, marks the Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepcion and Peru's national day of the Wititi, a UNESCO-listed courtship dance, with processions and folk parades.86
6. 🥾 Lago de Atitlán 🇬🇹 GuatemalaSanto Tomas at Chichicastenango · 13.–21. Dez.An hour and a half up from the lake, Chichicastenango spends the week to the 21st in masked dances, copal smoke on the church steps and the palo volador in the square.86
7. 🥾 Bagan 🇲🇲 MyanmarAnanda Pagoda Festival · 25. Dez. – 31. Jan. (meist)Fifteen days of temple fair around the full moon of Pyatho: bullock carts camped on the plain, stalls the length of the approach, and monks receiving alms in a line before dawn.83
8. 🏖️ Alicante 🇪🇸 SpanienVenida de la Virgen in Elche · 28.–29. Dez.A day trip to Elche, half an hour by train: at dawn on the 28th a pilgrimage walks in from Tamarit beach to reenact the Virgin's arrival by sea in 1370, and on the 29th children dressed as angels escort her image to the basilica.83
9. 🏙️ Suchitoto 🇸🇻 El SalvadorFiestas de Santa Lucia · 6.–13. Dez.The patron saint days run for a week to 13 December with something every day: masked characters, floats, music in the plaza and the town's own people back for it.83
10. 🏙️ Ezulwini Valley 🇸🇿 EswatiniIncwala · 20. Dez. – 15. Jan. (meist)The kingship ceremony at Lobamba, timed by the moon and running over several weeks with the Big Incwala at its centre.82
11. 🏙️ Syrakus 🇮🇹 ItalienSanta Lucia · 13.–20. Dez.The city's own saint.80
12. 🏙️ Punakha 🇧🇹 BhutanMonk body in winter residence · 15. Nov. – 15. Mai (meist)The Je Khenpo and the Central Monastic Body move down from Thimphu to Punakha Dzong for the winter, arriving in procession around late November and leaving again around May, a custom dating to the Zhabdrung.79
13. 🏙️ Granada 🇳🇮 NicaraguaLa Gritería · 7.–8. Dez.On the evening of the seventh Granada puts its altars to the Virgin out on the street rather than indoors, and children go door to door singing for sweets.78
14. 🏙️ León 🇳🇮 NicaraguaLa Gritería · 7.–8. Dez.La Gritería began in León in 1857 and the city still keeps the loudest version: altars to the Virgin on every block, gigantona puppets in the street and firecrackers that do not let up until morning.78
15. 🏖️ Puerto Vallarta 🇲🇽 MexikoGuadalupe processions · 1.–12. Dez.Twelve nights of neighbourhood and workplace processions up Juarez to the crowned church, with fireworks and a band each time.77
16. 🏙️ Sevilla 🇪🇸 SpanienInmaculada and the Seises · 7.–15. Dez.University tunas sing to the Immaculate Conception monument in Plaza del Triunfo through the night of 7 December, and for the octave that follows the choirboys called the Seises dance before the cathedral altar, one of only two times a year.76
17. 🏝️ Isla Mujeres 🇲🇽 MexikoFiestas de la Inmaculada · 30. Nov. – 8. Dez.Nine days for the island's patron saint, ending on 8 December with a procession of fishing boats around the bay, fireworks off the malecon and the centre closed to carts.76
18. 🏖️ Goa 🇮🇳 IndienFeast of St Francis Xavier · 24. Nov. – 3. Dez.A nine-day novena at Old Goa ending on 3 December, when pilgrims walk to the Bom Jesus basilica in tens of thousands and the lane of church ruins turns into a fairground.75
19. 🏙️ Puno 🇵🇪 PeruInmaculada Concepcion in Lampa · 6.–15. Dez.Lampa, the colonial pink town north of Juliaca and an easy day trip, keeps its patron feast with sikuris and ayarachi contests, masses and processions, including a staged descent and ascension of the Virgin.73
20. 🏖️ Salvador 🇧🇷 BrasilienNossa Senhora da Conceicao da Praia · 8. Dez.The feast of Bahia's patron saint, and a city holiday: mass in the open air and a procession through Comercio below the Elevador Lacerda.73
21. 🏙️ Bari 🇮🇹 ItalienSan Nicola in December · 5.–6. Dez.The saint's liturgical feast is quieter than the May celebrations but deeply local: masses start before dawn at the basilica, Orthodox pilgrims arrive, and food stalls fill Bari Vecchia.73
22. 🏝️ Ometepe 🇳🇮 NicaraguaLa Griteria · 7.–8. Dez.Nicaragua's night of the Immaculate Conception: households build altars to the Virgin and hand out sweets to anyone who shouts the ritual question at the door, with firecrackers until late.71
23. 🏖️ San Juan del Sur 🇳🇮 NicaraguaLa Griteria · 7.–8. Dez.Nicaragua's night of the Immaculate Conception: households build altars to the Virgin and hand out sweets to anyone who shouts the ritual question at the door.71
24. 🏙️ Kochi 🇮🇳 IndienThripunithura Vrischikolsavam · 10. Nov. – 5. Dez. (meist)The eight-day festival at Poornathrayeesa temple in Thripunithura, ten kilometres out, opens Kerala's temple season: fifteen elephants abreast and panchari melam in front of them.70
25. 🏝️ Hagåtña 🇬🇺 GuamFeast of Santa Marian Kamalen · 8. Dez.Guam's patroness is carried in procession around Hagatna after mass at the Cathedral-Basilica, the largest gathering on the island's calendar.61

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