This is a list of holidays in January, it includes school holidays, national holidays and
religious holidays. We include national holidays for countries all over the world, but we can not
guarantee that everything is listed here. We try to keep the January holidays list as up to date as possible.
The list of holidays in January was last updated in February 2011.
Holidays in January.
January 1 - New Year's Day.
January 1 - Independence Day in Haiti.
January 3 - Handsel Monday in Scotland and northern England.
January 6 - Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.
January 6 - Russian and Ukrainian Christmas Eve, also known as Svyat Vechir.
January 7 - Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church Christmas.
January 9 - Plough Sunday in Scotland and northern England.
January 10 - Coming of Age Day in Japan.
January 11 - National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States.
January 15 - Makara Sankranthi (Festival of Harvest) in India.
January 16 - Feast of the Santo Niņo in the Philippines.
January 17 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States.
January 26 - Republic Day in India.
January 26 - Australia Day in Australia.
January 29 - Makara Sankranthi (Festival of Harvest) in India.