Calendar
Festivals, remembrance and civic days
The days the community keeps, wherever it lives.
01Calendar
- Sadeh January
- PS752 remembrance January
- Nowruz March
- Sizdah Bedar April
- Ridvan April
- Tirgan July
- Woman, Life, Freedom anniversary September
- Mehregan October
- Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh) December
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| Day | Date | Kind | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nowruz نوروز | vernal equinox (about 20 to 21 March); 1 Farvardin | Festival | New year of the Solar Hijri calendar: haft-sin table, spring cleaning, visits and gifts. UNESCO Representative List; UN International Day of Nowruz, 21 March. |
| Chaharshanbe Suri چهارشنبهسوری | eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz | Festival | Jumping over bonfires to leave the year’s ills behind. |
| Sizdah Bedar سیزدهبدر | 13 Farvardin (about 2 April) | Festival | Picnics outdoors; knotted sabzeh is cast into running water. |
| Tirgan تیرگان | 13 Tir (about 3 to 4 July) | Festival | Water festival; the Toronto Tirgan festival is the largest Iranian cultural festival outside Iran. |
| Mehregan مهرگان | 16 Mehr (about 8 October) | Festival | Autumn festival of friendship, of Zoroastrian origin. |
| Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh) شب یلدا | winter solstice (about 21 December) | Festival | Longest night: pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and Hafez divination; UNESCO inscription 2022. |
| Sadeh سده | 10 Bahman (about 30 January) | Festival | Midwinter fire festival of Zoroastrian origin. |
| Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr عید فطر | 1 Shawwal | Religious | End of the fast of Ramadan. |
| Muharram and Ashura عاشورا | 10 Muharram | Religious | Mourning of Imam Hussein; ta’zieh passion plays (UNESCO). |
| Ridvan رضوان | 21 April to 2 May (approximately) | Religious | Baha’i festival commemorating Baha’u’llah’s declaration in Baghdad, 1863. |
| PS752 remembrance یادبود پرواز ۷۵۲ | January 8 | Remembrance | Remembrance of the 176 people killed on Flight PS752, 8 January 2020. |
| Woman, Life, Freedom anniversary زن، زندگی، آزادی | September 16 | Remembrance | Anniversary of the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini, 16 September 2022. |
| Eid al-Adha (Eid-e Qorban) عید قربان | 10 Dhu al-Hijjah | Religious | Feast of the Sacrifice at the close of the Hajj. |