2026-27 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.

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

2026-27 Holiday Calendar

August 25, 2026 

Mawlid un Nabi

begins at sunset Aug. 24 

Islam

September 12-13, 2026

*Rosh Hashanah

begins at sunset Sept. 11

 Judaism

September 22, 2026

Mabon/Autumnal Equinox 

 

Wicca/Pagan

September 21, 2026

*Yom Kippur

begins at sunset Sept. 20 

Judaism

Sept. 26- Oct. 2, 2026

*Sukkot

begins at sunset Sept. 25

 Judaism

October 4, 2026  

*Simhat Torah

begins at sunset Oct. 3

Judaism

October 31, 2026

Samhain

 

Wicca/Pagan

November 1, 2026

All Saints’ Day 

 

Christian-Western

November 8, 2026

Diwali 

 

Hindu, Jain, Sikh

December 5-12, 2026

Hanukkah 

begins at sunset Dec. 4

Judaism

December 8, 2026  

Bodhi/Rohatsu (Awakening Day)

 

Buddhism

December 21, 2026

Yule

 

Wicca/Pagan

December 23, 2026

Sanghamitta Day 

 

Buddhism

December 25, 2026

Christmas

 

Christian

December 26, 2026 - January 1, 2027

Kwanzaa 

 

Interfaith

January 5, 2027

Laylat al-Miraj 

begins at sunset Jan. 4

Islam

January 18, 2027

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day 

 

Civic

January 23, 2027

Tu B’Shevat 

 

Judaism

February 2, 2027

Imbolc  

 

Wicca/Pagan

February 8, 2027

Ramadan begins

 

Islam

Feb. 10, 2027 

Ash Wednesday 

 

Christian

March 9, 2027

*Eid al-Fitr (Ramadan ends)

begins at sunset Mar. 8

Islam

March 22, 2027

Holi 

 

Hindu

March 23, 2027

Purim

begins at sunset Mar. 22 

Judaism

March 26, 2027

Good Friday 

 

Western Christian

March 28, 2027

Easter 

 

Western Christian

April 22-29, 2027

*Passover (Pesach)

begins at sunset April 21. First and last two days may be observed with cessation from work

Judaism

April 30, 2027

Holy Friday 

 

Eastern Orthodox Christian

May 1, 2027

Beltane 

 

Wicca/Pagan

May 2, 2027

Pascha 

 

Eastern Orthodox Christian

May 16, 2027

Eid al-Adha

Begins at sunset, May 15

Islam

June 11-12, 2027

Shavuot 

Begins at sunset, 

June 10

Judaism

June 6th, 2027

*Muharram (beginning of Islamic calendar/Critical for Shia Muslims)

Begins at sunset, June 5th

Islam

June 15th, 2027

*Ashura (10th day of Muharram)

Morning till noon

Islam

Interfaith Calendar

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