Editing December (section)

== Observances ==
[[File:Eaton Centre Christmas Tree.JPG|alt=A Christmas tree at the Eaton Centre in Toronto. Christmas is traditionally celebrated on December 25 every year.|thumb|A [[Christmas tree]] at the [[Toronto Eaton Centre|Eaton Centre]] in [[Toronto]].]]
''This list does not necessarily imply either official status or general observance.''

=== Non-Gregorian ===
(All Baháʼí, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at the sundown prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question unless otherwise noted.)
* [[List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Chinese calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Hebrew calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Islamic calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar]]

=== Month-long ===
* In Catholic tradition, December typically marks the beginning of the Season of [[Advent]]. It is also devoted to the [[Immaculate Conception]].
* National Egg Nog Month (United States)
* [[List of observances in the United States by presidential proclamation#Annual special months recognized by presidential proclamation|National Impaired Driving Prevention Month]] (United States)
* National Fruit Cake Month (United States)
* National Pear Month (United States)

=== Movable ===
* See also [[Movable Western Christian observances]]
* See also [[Movable Eastern Christian observances]]
'''Tuesday immediately following fourth Thursday of November'''
* [[Giving Tuesday]] ([[United States]]) (can fall in December)
'''First Friday'''
* [[Public holidays in Ghana|Farmer's Day]] ([[Ghana]])
* [[Public holidays in the Marshall Islands|Gospel Day]] ([[Marshall Islands]])
'''First Sunday'''
* [[Public holidays in Turkmenistan|Good Neighborliness Day]] ([[Turkmenistan]])
* [[Sindhi Cultural Day]] ([[Sindhi diaspora]])
'''Second Monday'''
* [[Green Monday]]
* [[National Tree Planting Day (Malawi)]]
'''December 15, unless the date falls on a Sunday, then December 16'''
* [[Koninkrijksdag]] ([[Kingdom of the Netherlands]])
'''[[Winter Solstice]]'''
* [[Blue Christmas (holiday)]]
* [[Brumalia]] ([[Ancient Rome]])
* [[Dongzhi Festival]] ([[Asia]])
* [[Global Orgasm]]
* [[Korochun]] ([[Slavic people|Slavic]])
* [[Midsummer]] in the Southern Hemisphere. ([[Contemporary Paganism]])
* [[Sangamitta|Sanghamitta Day]] ([[Theravada|Theravada Buddhism]])
* [[Shalako]] ([[Zuni people|Zuni]])
* [[Yaldā]] ([[Iran]])
* [[Yule]] in the Northern Hemisphere ([[Contemporary Paganism]])
* [[Ziemassvētki]] ([[Latvia]])
'''December 22, unless that date is a Sunday, in which case the 23rd'''
* [[Forefathers' Day]] ([[Plymouth, Massachusetts]])
'''December 26, unless that day is a Sunday, in which case the 27th'''
* [[Boxing Day]] ([[Commonwealth of Nations]])
** [[Day of Good Will]] ([[Public holidays in South Africa|South Africa]] and [[Public holidays in Namibia|Namibia]])
** [[Family Day#Vanuatu|Family Day]] ([[Vanuatu]])
** [[Thanksgiving (Solomon Islands)]]
** Start of [[Boxing Week]]

=== Fixed ===
[[File:Weihnachtsmarktindresden.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Christmas market]] in [[Dresden]]]]
* November 25 – December 10: [[16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Days of Military Honour|Battle of the Sinop Day]] ([[Russia]])
** [[Damrong Rajanubhab Day]] ([[Thailand]])
** [[Portuguese Restoration War|Day of Restoration of Independence]] ([[Portugal]])
** [[List of food days#December|Eat A Red Apple Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Feast for Death of Aleister Crowley]] ([[Thelema]])
** [[First President Day]] ([[Kazakhstan]])
** [[Freedom and Democracy Day]] ([[Chad]])
** [[Great Union Day]] ([[Romania]])
** [[Military Abolition Day]] ([[Costa Rica]])
** [[National Day (Myanmar)]]
** [[Republic Day (Central African Republic)]]
** [[Restoration of Independence Day (Portugal)]]
** [[Rosa Parks Day]] ([[Ohio]] and [[Oregon]], [[United States]])
** [[Self-governance Day]] ([[Iceland]])
** [[Teachers' Day]] ([[Panama]])
** [[World AIDS Day]]
*** [[Day Without Art]]
* [[December 2]]
** [[Armed Forces Day (Cuba)]]
** [[International Day for the Abolition of Slavery]]
** [[National Day (Laos)]]
** [[National Day (United Arab Emirates)]]
** [[List of food days#December|National Fritters Day]] ([[United States]])
* [[December 3]]
** [[National Doctors' Day|Doctors' Day]] ([[Cuba]])
** [[United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities]]
* [[December 4]]
** [[List of food days#December|National Cookie Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Navy Day (India)]]
** [[Saint Barbara's Day]]-related observances:
*** [[Barbórka]] ([[Poland]])
*** [[Eid il-Burbara]] ([[Russia]], [[Israel]], [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], [[Palestinian National Authority|Palestine]], [[Syria]], [[Turkey]])
** [[Thai Environment Day]] ([[Thailand]])
** [[Tupou I Day]] ([[Tonga]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[Children's Day]] ([[Suriname]])
** [[Ninja Burger#Day of the Ninja|Day of the Ninja]] ([[Holiday#Unofficial holidays|unofficial]])
** [[Days of Military Honour|Day of Military Honour – Battle of Moscow]] ([[Russia]])
** [[Discovery Day#Hispaniola|Discovery Day]] ([[Haiti]] and [[Dominican Republic]])
** [[International Volunteer Day|International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development]]
** [[Klozum]] ([[Schiermonnikoog]], [[Netherlands]])
** [[Saint Nicholas|Saint Nicholas Eve]] ([[Belgium]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Germany]], [[Poland]] and the [[United Kingdom|UK]])
*** [[Krampusnacht]] ([[Austria]])
** [[King's Birthday (Thailand)]]
** [[Repeal of Prohibition in the United States#External links|Repeal Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[International Year of Soil|World Soil Day]]
* [[December 6]]
** [[Anniversary of the Founding of Quito]] ([[Ecuador]])
** [[Armed Forces Day#Ukraine|Armed Forces Day]] ([[Ukraine]])
** [[Constitution Day (Spain)]]
** [[Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan]]
** [[Independence Day of Finland]]
** [[National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women]] ([[Canada]])
** [[Saint Nicholas Day]] ([[Western Christianity]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Armed Forces Flag Day]] ([[India]])
** [[Eve of the Immaculate Conception]] ([[Western Christianity]]) and related observances:
*** [[Day of the Little Candles]], begins after sunset ([[Colombia]])
*** [[Quema del Diablo]], begins after sunset. ([[Guatemala]])
** [[International Civil Aviation Day]]
** [[Culture of East Timor#Public holidays|National Heroes Day]] ([[East Timor]])
** [[National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Spitak Remembrance Day]] ([[Armenia]])
* [[December 8]]
** [[Battle Day]] (Falkland Islands)
** [[Bodhi Day]] (Japan)
** [[CARICOM–Cuba Day]] ([[Caribbean Community]] (CARICOM) and Cuba)
** [[Constitution Day (Romania)]]
** [[Constitution Day (Uzbekistan)]]
** [[Jean Sibelius|Day of Finnish Music]] (Finland)
** [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception]] (public holiday in [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception#Designation as public holiday|several countries]], a [[holy day of obligation]] in others), and its related observances:
*** [[Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Anglican Communion)]], lesser commemoration
*** [[Christmas on Campus]] ([[University of Dayton]])
*** [[Mother's Day]] (Panama)
*** [[Festa da Conceição da Praia]], celebrating Yemanjá, Queen of the Ocean ([[Salvador, Bahia]])
*** [[Festival of Lights (Lyon)]]
** [[List of LGBTQ awareness days|Pansexual/Panromantic Pride Day]]
** [[Public holidays in North Macedonia|Saint Clement of Ohrid Day]] ([[North Macedonia]])
** [[List of food days#December|National Brownie Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[National Youth Day (Albania)]]
* [[December 9]]
** [[Name days in Sweden|Anna's Day]] ([[Sweden]] and [[Finland]])
** [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception#Eastern Orthodoxy|Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne]] ([[Eastern Orthodox]])
** [[Independence Day (Tanzania)]]
** [[International Anti-Corruption Day]]
** [[National Heroes Day (Antigua and Barbuda)]]
** [[List of food days#December|National Pastry Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Armed Forces Day#Sri Lanka|Navy Day (Sri Lanka)]]
** [[Ásatrú holidays#The Troth|Remembrance for Egill Skallagrímsson]] ([[The Troth]])
** [[Yuri's Day in the Autumn]] ([[Russian Orthodox Church]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[Alfred Nobel Day]] (Sweden)
** [[Constitution Day (Thailand)]]
** [[Human Rights Day]] ([[International observance|International]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Human Rights and Peace Day]] (Kiribati)
** [[Indiana Day]] (Indiana, United States)
** [[List of food days#December|National Have a Bagel Day]] (United States)
** [[List of food days#December|National Noodle Ring Day]] (United States)
** [[National Tango Day]] (Argentina)
** [[Pampanga Day]] ([[Pampanga]] province, Philippines)
** [[Republic Day (Burkina Faso)]]
* [[December 12]]
** [[Constitution Day]] (Russia)
** [[Armed Forces Day#Croatia|Croatian Air Force Day]] (Croatia)
** [[Day of Neutrality]] (Turkmenistan)
** [[Public holidays in Mexico|Feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe]] (Mexico)
** [[Baháʼí calendar|Feast of Masá'il Baháʼí calendar]] (only if [[Baháʼí Naw-Rúz]] falls on March 21, which it does for 2015)
** [[Kanji of the year|Kanji Day]] (Japan)
** [[Jamhuri Day]] (Kenya)
* [[December 13]]
** [[Acadian Remembrance Day]] ([[Acadians]])
** [[National Day (Saint Lucia)]]
** [[Republic Day (Malta)]]
** [[Armed Forces Day#Brazil|Sailor's Day]] (Brazil)
** [[Saint Lucy's Day]] (mainly [[Scandinavia]], some regions of Italy)
* [[December 14]]
** [[Alabama Day]] (Alabama)
** [[Forty-seven Ronin|Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day]] ([[Sengaku-ji]], [[Tokyo]])
** [[Martyred Intellectuals Day]] (Bangladesh)
** [[Monkey Day]] ([[International observance|International]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights Day]] (United States)
*** [[2nd Amendment Day]] (South Carolina)
** [[Homecoming Day (Alderney)]]
** [[International Tea Day]]
** [[List of food days#December|National Cupcake Day]] (United States)
** [[Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty]] (Russia)
** [[Zamenhof Day]] ([[Esperantist|International Esperanto Community]])
* [[December 16]]
** [[National Day]] (Kingdom of Bahrain)
** [[Victory day of Bangladesh]]
** [[Day of reconciliation (South Africa)|Day of Reconciliation]] in South Africa
* [[December 17]]
** [[Accession Day (Bahrain)]]
** [[International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers]]
** [[National Day (Bhutan)]]
** [[List of food days#December|National Maple Syrup Day]] (United States)
** [[Pan American Aviation Day]] (United States)
** [[Wright Brothers Day]] (United States)
* [[December 18]]
** [[International Migrants Day]] (United Nations)
** [[List of food days#Brazil|National Muffin Day]] (Brazil)
* [[December 19]]
** [[Liberation Day|Goa Liberation Day]] ([[Goa]], [[India]])
** [[Public holidays in Anguilla|National Heroes and Heroines Day]] ([[Anguilla]])
* [[December 20]]
** Abolition of Slavery Day, also known as ''[[Cafres|Fête des Cafres]]'' ([[Réunion]], [[French Guiana]])
** [[Bo Aung Kyaw Day]] ([[Myanmar]])
** [[International Human Solidarity Day]] ([[International observance|International]])
** [[Macau Special Administrative Region Establishment Day]] ([[Macau]])
** [[List of food days#December|National Sangria Day]] (United States)
* [[December 21]]
** [[Armed Forces Day]] ([[Philippines]])
** [[First day of winter]] (some cultures)
** [[Forefathers' Day]] ([[Plymouth, Massachusetts]], United States)
** [[List of food days#December|National Hamburger Day]] (United States)
** [[Public holidays in São Tomé and Príncipe|São Tomé Day]] ([[São Tomé and Príncipe]])
** The first day of [[Pancha Ganapati]], celebrated until December 25 ([[Saiva Siddhanta Church]])
* [[December 22]]
** [[Armed Forces Day (Vietnam)]]
** [[Mother's Day]] (Indonesia)
** [[List of food days#December|National Date Nut Bread Day]] (United States)
** [[National Mathematics Day]] (India)
** [[Teachers' Day]] (Cuba)
** [[Unity Day (Zimbabwe)]]
* [[December 23]]
** [[The Emperor's Birthday]], a national holiday in Japan
** [[Festivus]]
** [[HumanLight]] ([[Humanism]])
* [[December 24]]
** [[Christmas Eve]]
*** [[Aðfangadagskvöld]], the day when the 13th and the last [[Yule Lads|Yule Lad]] arrives to towns. (Iceland)
*** [[Feast of the Seven Fishes]] (Italy)
*** [[Juleaften (Denmark)]]/[[Julaften (Norway)]]/[[Julafton|Julafton (Sweden)]]
*** [[Nittel Nacht]] (certain Orthodox Jewish denominations)
*** [[Nochebuena]] (Spain and Spanish-speaking countries)
*** The [[Declaration of Christmas Peace]] ([[Old Great Square (Turku)|Old Great Square]] of [[Turku]], Finland's official Christmas City)
*** [[Quviasukvik]] ([[Eskimo]] of [[Nunavut]], the [[Northwest Territories]], [[Yukon]], [[Nunavik]], [[Nunatsiavut]], [[NunatuKavut]], [[Alaska]], [[Greenland]] and [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug|Chukotka]]), a new year celebration held until January 7th.
** [[Days of Military Honour|Day of Military Honour – Siege of Ismail]] (Russia)
** [[Independence Day (Libya)]]
** [[Mōdraniht]] ([[Anglo-Saxon paganism]])
** [[List of food days#December|National Eggnog Day]] (United States)
* [[December 25]]
** [[Children's Day]] (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo)
** [[Christmas]] ([[Christianity]])
*** [[Constitution Day (Taiwan)]]
*** [[Good Governance Day]] (India)
*** [[Newtonmas]] ([[Atheist]] community)
*** [[Quaid-e-Azam's Day]] (Pakistan)
*** [[Takanakuy]] ([[Chumbivilcas Province]], Peru)
** [[List of food days#December|National Pumpkin Pie Day]] (United States)
* [[December 26]]
** [[Independence Day]] in Slovenia – [[Independence and Unity Day]]
** [[Kwanzaa]] ([[December 26]] to [[January 1]]) ([[African-American|African-American community]], United States)
** [[Saint Stephen's Day]]
** [[Wren Day]] ([[Ireland]] and the [[Isle of Man]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Independence and Unity Day]] (Slovenia)
** [[Mauro Hamza|Mauro Hamza Day]] ([[Houston|Houston, Texas]])
** [[Mummer's Day]] ([[Padstow]], [[Cornwall]])
** [[Saint Stephen's Day]] (public holiday in [[Alsace]], Austria, [[Catalonia]], Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, [[Hong Kong]], Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland)
*** [[Father's Day]] (Bulgaria)
** The first day of [[Junkanoo]] street parade, the second day is on the [[New Year's Day]] (The Bahamas)
** [[List of food days#December|National Fruitcake Day]] (United States)
** [[Zartosht No-Diso]] ([[Zoroastrianism]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Proclamation Day (South Australia)|Proclamation Day]] in [[South Australia]]
* [[December 29]]
* [[December 30]]
** [[Remembrance days in Slovakia|Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province]] (Slovakia)
** [[List of food days#December|National Bicarbonate of Soda Day]] (United States)
** [[Rizal Day]] (Philippines)
* [[December 31]]
** [[International Solidarity Day]] (Azerbaijan)
** [[List of food days#December|National Champagne Day]] (United States)
** [[New Year's Eve]]
*** [[Novy God|Novy God Eve]]
** [[Bisperás ng Bagong Taón]] (Philippines)
** [[Ōmisoka]] (Japan)
** Start of [[Hogmanay]] (Scotland) December 31 – January 1, in some cases until January 2.