2023-24 Academic Year Holidays

As academic assignments and campus activities are planned for each term, please be aware that many members of the Middlebury College community observe one or more of the following religious holidays. Those marked with an * are considered to be “suspension of work” holidays.   Please be aware that students might need to request accommodations according to college policy for work due, tests scheduled, or excused absences on those dates of their religious observance. 

For those traditions following a lunar calendar, dates can vary slightly depending on moon sightings.

2023-24 Holiday Calendar

July 28, 2023:  *Ashura; begins at sunset July 27. (Islam)

 

September 16-17, 2023:  *Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset Sept. 15. (Judaism)

September 23, 2023:  Mabon (Autumnal Equinox) Wicca/Pagan

September 25, 2023:  *Yom Kippur; begins at sunset Sept. 24.  (Judaism)

September 27, 2023:  Mawlid un Nabi; begins at sunset Sept. 26).  (Islam)

September 30, 2023:  *Sukkot; begins at sunset Sept. 29. (Judaism)

 

October 8, 2023:  *Simhat Torah (begins at sunset Oct. 7) (Judaism)

October 31, 2022:  Samhain (Wicca/Pagan)

 

November 1, 2023:  All Saints’ Day (Christian-Western)

November 12, 2023:  Diwali  (Hindu, Jain, Sikh)

 

December 8, 2023:  Bodhi Day/Rohatsu  (Buddhism)

 

December 8-15, 2023:  Hanukkah; begins at sundown Dec. 7.  (Judaism)

December 22, 2023:  Yule (Wicca/Pagan)

December 25, 2023:  Christmas (Christian)

December 26, 2023:  Sanghamitta Day ( Buddhism)

Dec. 26-January 1:  Kwanzaa ( Interfaith)

 

January 15, 2024:  Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (Civic)

January 25, 2024:  Tu B’Shevat (begins at sunset Jan. 24)  (Judaism)

 

February 2, 2024:  Imbolc  (Wicca/Pagan)

February 8, 2024:  Laylat al-Miraj; begins at sunset Feb. 7.  (Islam)

February 14, 2024:  Ash Wednesday (Christian)

 

March 11-April 10, 2024:  Ramadan; begins at sunset March 10. (Islam)

March 24, 2024:  Purim; begins at sunset March 23.  (Judaism)

March 25, 2024:  Holi  (Hindu)

March 29 & 31, 2024:  Good Friday & Easter (Christian — Western)

 

April 10, 2024:  *Eid al-Fitr; begins at sunset April 9.  ( Islam)

April 23-30, 2024:  *Passover; begins at sunset April 22. First and last two days may be observed with cessation from work. (Judaism)

 

May 1, 2024:  Beltane (Wicca/Pagan)

May 3 & 5, 2024:  Holy Friday & Pasha (Orthodox Easter) (Christian — Eastern Orthodox)



 

Religious Holidays

View Middlebury’s Religious Holiday policy, see Section “10. Religious Holidays”.

Interfaith Calendar

Review an Interfaith Calendar, with definitions of each holiday, from the Harvard Divinity School.

Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
46 South Street
Middlebury, VT 05753