Holidays in United States in 2013

 

Weekday	Date	Holiday name	Holiday type	Where it is observed
Tuesday	Jan 1	New Year's Day	National holiday
Sunday	Jan 6	Epiphany	Christian
Monday	Jan 7	International Programmers' Day	Worldwide observance
Monday	Jan 7	Orthodox Christmas Day	Orthodox
Sunday	Jan 13	Stephen Foster Memorial Day	Observance
Monday	Jan 14	Orthodox New Year	Orthodox
Friday	Jan 18	Lee Jackson Day	State holiday	Virginia
Saturday	Jan 19	Robert E Lee's Birthday	State holiday	Florida
Saturday	Jan 19	Confederate Memorial Day	State holiday	Texas
Sunday	Jan 20	Inauguration Day	State holiday	DC, LA, MD, VA
Monday	Jan 21	Martin Luther King Day	National holiday
Monday	Jan 21	Robert E Lee's Birthday	State holiday	AL, AR, GA, MS
Monday	Jan 21	Idaho Human Rights Day	State holiday	Idaho
Monday	Jan 21	Civil Rights Day	State holiday	Arizona, New Hampshire
Thursday	Jan 24	Prophet's Birthday	Muslim
Saturday	Jan 26	Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day)	Jewish holiday
Sunday	Jan 27	e-Day	Worldwide observance
Sunday	Jan 27	International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Jan 29	Kansas Day	Observance
Friday	Feb 1	National Freedom Day	Observance
Saturday	Feb 2	Groundhog Day	Observance
Monday	Feb 4	World Cancer Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Feb 7	e-Day	Worldwide observance
Sunday	Feb 10	Chinese New Year	Observance
Tuesday	Feb 12	Lincoln's Birthday	State holiday	CT, IL, MO, NJ, NY
Tuesday	Feb 12	Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras	State holiday	Alabama, Louisiana
Tuesday	Feb 12	Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras	Observance
Wednesday	Feb 13	Ash Wednesday	Christian
Thursday	Feb 14	Valentine's Day	Observance
Monday	Feb 18	Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday)	National holiday
Monday	Feb 18	Daisy Gatson Bates Day	State holiday	Arkansas
Wednesday	Feb 20	World Day of Social Justice	United Nations observance
Thursday	Feb 21	International Mother Language Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Feb 24	Purim	Jewish holiday
Friday	Mar 1	St. David's Day	Observance
Friday	Mar 1	Self-injury Awareness Day	Worldwide observance
Friday	Mar 1	Read Across America Day	Observance
Saturday	Mar 2	Texas Independence Day	State holiday	Texas
Monday	Mar 4	Casimir Pulaski Day	State holiday	Illinois
Tuesday	Mar 5	Town Meeting Day Vermont	State holiday
Friday	Mar 8	International Women's Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Mar 10	Daylight Saving Time starts	Clock change/Daylight Saving Time
Thursday	Mar 14	Pi Day	Worldwide observance
Thursday	Mar 14	World Kidney Day	Worldwide observance
Sunday	Mar 17	Evacuation Day	State holiday	Massachusetts
Sunday	Mar 17	St. Patrick's Day	Observance
Monday	Mar 18	Evacuation Day observed	State holiday	Massachusetts
Wednesday	Mar 20	International Day of Happiness	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Mar 20	March equinox	Season
Thursday	Mar 21	World Down Syndrome Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Mar 21	International Day of Nowruz	United Nations observance
Thursday	Mar 21	International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	United Nations observance
Thursday	Mar 21	World Poetry Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Mar 22	World Water Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Mar 23	World Meteorological Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Mar 23	Earth Hour	Worldwide observance
Sunday	Mar 24	World Tuberculosis Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Mar 24	International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims	United Nations observance
Sunday	Mar 24	Palm Sunday	Christian
Monday	Mar 25	Maryland Day	State holiday	Maryland
Monday	Mar 25	International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	United Nations observance
Monday	Mar 25	International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members	United Nations observance
Monday	Mar 25	Seward's Day	State holiday	Alaska
Tuesday	Mar 26	Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day	State holiday	Hawaii
Tuesday	Mar 26	First day of Passover	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Mar 28	Maundy Thursday	Christian
Friday	Mar 29	Good Friday	State holiday	14 states
Saturday	Mar 30	Holy Saturday	Christian
Sunday	Mar 31	César Chávez Day	State holiday	CA, CO*, TX*
Sunday	Mar 31	Easter Sunday	Observance, Christian
Monday	Apr 1	April Fool's Day	Worldwide observance
Monday	Apr 1	César Chávez Day observed	State holiday	California
Monday	Apr 1	Easter Monday	Christian
Tuesday	Apr 2	Last day of Passover	Jewish holiday
Tuesday	Apr 2	Pascua Florida Day	State holiday	Florida
Tuesday	Apr 2	World Autism Awareness Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Apr 4	United Nations' Mine Awareness Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Apr 6	National Tartan Day	Observance
Sunday	Apr 7	Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide	United Nations observance
Sunday	Apr 7	United Nations' World Health Day	United Nations observance
Monday	Apr 8	Yom HaShoah	Jewish holiday
Friday	Apr 12	International Day of Human Space Flight	United Nations observance
Monday	Apr 15	Patriot's Day	State holiday	Maine, Massachusetts
Monday	Apr 15	Father Damien Day	Local observance	Hawaii
Monday	Apr 15	Tax Day	Observance
Tuesday	Apr 16	Emancipation Day	State holiday	District of Columbia
Tuesday	Apr 16	Yom HaAtzmaut	Jewish holiday
Sunday	Apr 21	San Jacinto Day	State holiday	Texas
Monday	Apr 22	Oklahoma Day	Local observance	Oklahoma
Monday	Apr 22	Earth Day	Worldwide observance
Monday	Apr 22	Confederate Memorial Day	State holiday	AL, FL, GA
Tuesday	Apr 23	World Book and Copyright Day	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Apr 24	Administrative Professionals Day	Observance
Thursday	Apr 25	World Malaria Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Apr 26	World Intellectual Property Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Apr 26	Arbor Day	State holiday	Nebraska
Friday	Apr 26	Global Youth Service Day	Worldwide observance
Sunday	Apr 28	World Day for Safety and Health at Work	United Nations observance
Sunday	Apr 28	Lag B'Omer	Jewish holiday
Monday	Apr 29	Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare	United Nations observance
Monday	Apr 29	Confederate Memorial Day	State holiday	Mississippi
Tuesday	Apr 30	International Jazz Day	United Nations observance
Wednesday	May 1	Law Day	Observance
Wednesday	May 1	Loyalty Day	Observance
Thursday	May 2	National Day of Prayer	Observance
Friday	May 3	World Press Freedom Day	United Nations observance
Friday	May 3	Orthodox Good Friday	Orthodox
Saturday	May 4	Orthodox Holy Saturday	Orthodox
Saturday	May 4	Rhode Island Independence Day	State holiday	Rhode Island
Sunday	May 5	Cinco de Mayo	Observance
Sunday	May 5	Orthodox Easter	Orthodox
Monday	May 6	Orthodox Easter Monday	Orthodox
Monday	May 6	National Nurses Day	Observance
Wednesday	May 8	Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War	United Nations observance
Wednesday	May 8	Truman Day	State holiday	Missouri
Thursday	May 9	Ascension Day	Christian
Friday	May 10	Confederate Memorial Day	State holiday	North Carolina, South Carolina
Saturday	May 11	World Migratory Bird Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	May 12	Mother's Day	Observance
Wednesday	May 15	Shavuot	Jewish holiday
Wednesday	May 15	Peace Officers Memorial Day	Observance
Wednesday	May 15	International Day of Families	United Nations observance
Friday	May 17	National Defense Transportation Day	Observance
Friday	May 17	World Information Society Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	May 18	Armed Forces Day	Observance
Sunday	May 19	Pentecost	Christian
Monday	May 20	Whit Monday	Christian
Monday	May 20	World Autoimmune Arthritis Day	Worldwide observance
Tuesday	May 21	World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development	United Nations observance
Wednesday	May 22	International Day for Biological Diversity	United Nations observance
Wednesday	May 22	National Maritime Day	Observance
Wednesday	May 22	Harvey Milk Day	Observance	California
Saturday	May 25	African Liberation Day	Worldwide observance
Saturday	May 25	Towel Day	Worldwide observance
Saturday	May 25	National Missing Children's Day	Observance
Sunday	May 26	Trinity Sunday	Christian
Monday	May 27	Jefferson Davis Birthday	State holiday	Mississippi
Monday	May 27	Memorial Day	National holiday
Wednesday	May 29	International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers	United Nations observance
Thursday	May 30	Corpus Christi	Christian
Friday	May 31	World No Tobacco Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Jun 1	Statehood Day	State holiday	Kentucky, Tennessee
Monday	Jun 3	Jefferson Davis Birthday	State holiday	Alabama
Monday	Jun 3	Jefferson Davis Birthday	State holiday	Florida
Tuesday	Jun 4	International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Jun 5	World Environment Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Jun 6	Isra and Mi'raj	Muslim
Saturday	Jun 8	World Oceans Day	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Jun 11	Kamehameha Day	State holiday	Hawaii
Wednesday	Jun 12	World Day Against Child Labour	United Nations observance
Friday	Jun 14	Flag Day	Observance
Friday	Jun 14	World Blood Donor Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Jun 15	World Elder Abuse Awareness Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Jun 16	Father's Day	Observance
Monday	Jun 17	World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought	United Nations observance
Monday	Jun 17	Bunker Hill Day	State holiday	Massachusetts
Wednesday	Jun 19	Juneteenth	Local observance	All except AL, American Samoa, GA, HI, MD, ME, MP, MS, MT, ND, NH, NV, PA, RI, SD, UT, Virgin Islands, Wake Island
Thursday	Jun 20	West Virginia Day	State holiday	West Virginia
Thursday	Jun 20	World Refugee Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Jun 21	June Solstice	Season
Sunday	Jun 23	International Widows' Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Jun 23	Public Service Day	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Jun 25	Day of the Seafarer	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Jun 26	International Day in Support of Victims of Torture	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Jun 26	International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking	United Nations observance
Thursday	Jul 4	Independence Day	National holiday
Saturday	Jul 6	International Day of Cooperatives	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Jul 9	Ramadan begins	Muslim
Thursday	Jul 11	World Population Day	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Jul 16	Tisha B'Av	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Jul 18	Nelson Mandela Day	United Nations observance
Monday	Jul 22	Pi Approximation Day	Worldwide observance
Wednesday	Jul 24	Pioneer Day	State holiday	Utah
Sunday	Jul 28	Parents' Day	Observance
Sunday	Jul 28	World Hepatitis Day	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Jul 30	International Day of Friendship	United Nations observance
Saturday	Aug 3	Laylat al-Qadr	Muslim
Thursday	Aug 8	Eid-al-Fitr	Muslim
Friday	Aug 9	International Day of the World's Indigenous People	United Nations observance
Monday	Aug 12	Victory Day	State holiday	Rhode Island
Monday	Aug 12	International Youth Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Aug 15	Assumption of Mary	Christian
Friday	Aug 16	Statehood Day in Hawaii	State holiday	Hawaii
Friday	Aug 16	Bennington Battle Day	State holiday	Vermont
Monday	Aug 19	World Humanitarian Day	United Nations observance
Monday	Aug 19	National Aviation Day	Observance
Wednesday	Aug 21	Senior Citizens Day	Observance
Friday	Aug 23	International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Aug 27	Lyndon Baines Johnson Day	State holiday	Texas
Thursday	Aug 29	International Day against Nuclear Tests	United Nations observance
Friday	Aug 30	International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances	United Nations observance
Monday	Sep 2	Labor Day	National holiday
Thursday	Sep 5	Rosh Hashana	Jewish holiday
Saturday	Sep 7	Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day	Observance
Sunday	Sep 8	International Literacy Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Sep 8	National Grandparents Day	Observance
Tuesday	Sep 10	World Suicide Prevention Day	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Sep 11	Patriot Day	Observance
Thursday	Sep 12	International Day for South-South Cooperation	United Nations observance
Friday	Sep 13	International Programmers' Day	Worldwide observance
Friday	Sep 13	Friday the 13th	Worldwide observance
Saturday	Sep 14	Yom Kippur	Jewish holiday
Sunday	Sep 15	International Day of Democracy	United Nations observance
Monday	Sep 16	International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Sep 17	Constitution Day and Citizenship Day	Observance
Thursday	Sep 19	First day of Sukkot	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Sep 19	International Talk Like a Pirate Day	Worldwide observance
Friday	Sep 20	National POW/MIA Recognition Day	Observance
Saturday	Sep 21	International Day of Peace	United Nations observance
Sunday	Sep 22	September equinox	Season
Sunday	Sep 22	Emancipation Day	State holiday	Ohio
Wednesday	Sep 25	Last day of Sukkot	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Sep 26	Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Sep 26	World Maritime Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Sep 27	World Tourism Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Sep 28	World Rabies Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Sep 29	World Heart Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Sep 29	Gold Star Mother's Day	Observance
Tuesday	Oct 1	International Day of Older Persons	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Oct 2	International Day of Non-Violence	United Nations observance
Friday	Oct 4	Feast of St Francis of Assisi	Christian
Saturday	Oct 5	World Teachers' Day	United Nations observance
Monday	Oct 7	World Habitat Day	United Nations observance
Monday	Oct 7	Child Health Day	Observance
Wednesday	Oct 9	World Post Day	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Oct 9	International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Oct 9	Leif Erikson Day	Observance
Thursday	Oct 10	World Sight Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Oct 10	World Mental Health Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Oct 11	International Day of the Girl Child	United Nations observance
Monday	Oct 14	Columbus Day	National holiday	All except CA, HI, NV
Monday	Oct 14	Native Americans' Day	Local observance	South Dakota
Monday	Oct 14	Indigenous People's Day	Local observance	California
Tuesday	Oct 15	Eid-al-Adha	Muslim
Tuesday	Oct 15	White Cane Safety Day	Observance
Tuesday	Oct 15	International Day of Rural Women	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Oct 16	Boss's Day	Observance
Wednesday	Oct 16	World Food Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Oct 17	International Day for the Eradication of Poverty	United Nations observance
Friday	Oct 18	Alaska Day	State holiday	Alaska
Thursday	Oct 24	World Development Information Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Oct 24	United Nations Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Oct 25	Nevada Day	State holiday	Nevada
Sunday	Oct 27	World Day for Audiovisual Heritage	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Oct 29	World Stroke Day	Worldwide observance
Thursday	Oct 31	Halloween	Observance
Friday	Nov 1	All Saints' Day	Christian
Saturday	Nov 2	All Souls' Day	Christian
Sunday	Nov 3	Daylight Saving Time ends	Clock change/Daylight Saving Time
Sunday	Nov 3	Diwali/Deepavali	Observance
Tuesday	Nov 5	Muharram/Islamic New Year	Muslim
Wednesday	Nov 6	International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict	United Nations observance
Sunday	Nov 10	World Science Day for Peace and Development	United Nations observance
Monday	Nov 11	Veterans Day	National holiday
Thursday	Nov 14	World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Nov 14	World Diabetes Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Nov 16	International Day for Tolerance	United Nations observance
Sunday	Nov 17	World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Nov 19	International Men's Day	Worldwide observance
Wednesday	Nov 20	Africa Industrialization Day	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Nov 20	Universal Children's Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Nov 21	World Philosophy Day	United Nations observance
Thursday	Nov 21	World Television Day	United Nations observance
Monday	Nov 25	International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women	United Nations observance
Thursday	Nov 28	First Day of Hanukkah	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Nov 28	Thanksgiving Day	National holiday
Friday	Nov 29	Presidents' Day	State holiday	New Mexico
Friday	Nov 29	American Indian Heritage Day	State holiday	Maryland
Friday	Nov 29	Lincoln's Birthday	State holiday	Indiana
Friday	Nov 29	International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People	United Nations observance
Friday	Nov 29	Black Friday	State holiday	17 states
Sunday	Dec 1	World AIDS Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Dec 1	First Sunday Advent	Christian
Monday	Dec 2	Cyber Monday	Observance
Monday	Dec 2	International Day for the Abolition of Slavery	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Dec 3	International Day of Persons with Disabilities	United Nations observance
Thursday	Dec 5	Last day of Hanukkah	Jewish holiday
Thursday	Dec 5	International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development	United Nations observance
Saturday	Dec 7	Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day	Observance
Saturday	Dec 7	International Civil Aviation Day	United Nations observance
Sunday	Dec 8	Feast of the Immaculate Conception	Christian
Monday	Dec 9	International Anti-Corruption Day	United Nations observance
Tuesday	Dec 10	Human Rights Day	United Nations observance
Wednesday	Dec 11	International Mountain Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Dec 13	Friday the 13th	Worldwide observance
Tuesday	Dec 17	Pan American Aviation Day	Observance
Tuesday	Dec 17	Wright Brothers Day	Observance
Wednesday	Dec 18	International Migrants Day	United Nations observance
Friday	Dec 20	International Human Solidarity Day	United Nations observance
Saturday	Dec 21	December Solstice	Season
Tuesday	Dec 24	Christmas Eve	Observance, Christian
Wednesday	Dec 25	Christmas Day	National holiday, Christian
Thursday	Dec 26	Kwanzaa (until Jan 1)	Observance
Tuesday   The entire link can be found at:  http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/ One can customize it for their own reasons, too.	Dec 31	New Year's Eve	Observance

My intent is to use about any reason to celebrate during any time, including hard times.