April's Movable Holidays

See also:  holidays possibly in April,  April

1st Sunday

• Daylight Saving Time begins; turn your clock ahead at 2:00 a.m.
• Budoha Day - Hawaii
• Wesak - Buddha's Birthday
• Set-Your Clock-Forward-Day

1st Saturday

• Saturday Market Day - Oregon

early April

• Daffodil Days in Canada - fundraising for Cancer research

1st Saturday before the 5th

• Tax Saturday - UK

1st Thursday

•  Landsgemeinde in Glarus a/k/a Glarus Festival - in Glarus, Switzerland; eligible citizens of the canton meet in the open air to decide on laws and expenditures by the council

1st Friday

• Student Government Day - Massachusetts

Friday after the 1st

• Arbor Day - Apache, Navajo, Coconino, Mohave, Yavapai; Arizona

2nd Friday

• Audubon Day

3rd Sunday & Monday

• Sechselauten - Six Ringing Festival; Switzerland

3rd Monday

• Patriot's Day - Maine, Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts USA - Battle of Concord 1775, April 15
• Boston Marathon
• Sechseläuten - in Zurich, Switzerland

Thursday between the 19th & 26th

• First Day of Summer - Iceland

Saturday nearest St. George's Day - 23rd

• Peppercorn Day - Bermuda

Monday nearest Feast Day of St. George - 23rd

• St. George's Day - Newfoundland

Sunday after the 1st full moon after the vernal equinox following Passover

• Lambri - Bright Day; Greece

3rd Monday

• Patriots' Day - Maine, Massachusetts

4th Monday

• Fast Day - New Hampshire

4th Thursday

• Take Our Daughter to Work Day
  • Kidsproj - Take Your Daughter To Work Day in the US
  • Kidsproj - Take your daughter to work Day

4th weekend

• Just Pray No weekend

final Monday

•  Arbor Day - in Wyoming
•  Confederate Memorial Day - Alabama, Mississippi

final Friday

• Arbor Day
• Bird Day

Wednesday of the final full week

• Professional Secretaries Day

third Thursday of each quarter

• Get To Know Your Customer Day

leap years

• Ching Ming Festival - usually on April 5, on leap year moves to April 4
  • April 4, 2004
  • April 4, 2008
  • April 4, 2012
  • April 4, 2016

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last edited Tuesday, October 18, 2005