Festipath vous dit quand ont lieu les grandes fêtes du monde, ce qu’elles signifient pour ceux qui les perpétuent et comment y participer en invité respectueux.
Holy Week in Guatemala · Photo : ArquiWHAT, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Les prochaines fêtes autour desquelles organiser un voyage.
The Ga people of Accra remember a famine by laughing at it: after weeks in which drumming and noise are banned, chiefs sprinkle kpokpoi — steamed maize with palm oil — through the streets, and the drums return for “hooting at hunger”.
août – septembre 2026Période approximative
On 18 and 19 September Chile celebrates its national holidays — the Dieciocho — with flags on every building, cueca dancing and barbecues in the fondas, a Te Deum in Santiago and a great military parade, in what can stretch into a week of celebration.
18–19 septembre 2026Calculée
For sixteen days each autumn Munich’s Theresienwiese becomes the world’s largest folk festival — beer tents of the city’s own breweries, a funfair, costume parades and some seven million visitors — a tradition that began with a royal wedding in 1810.
19 septembre – 4 octobre 2026Calculée
추석
Korea’s harvest festival under the full moon of the eighth lunar month — three days when cities empty as families go home to honour their ancestors, tidy the family graves and make half-moon rice cakes steamed over pine needles.
24–26 septembre 2026Calculée
中秋节
On the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month, when the moon is held to be at its fullest and brightest, Chinese families gather to share mooncakes, carry lanterns and look at the moon — a harvest festival with the legend of Chang’e at its heart.
25 septembre 2026Calculée
Tết Trung Thu
In Vietnam the Mid-Autumn full moon belongs to children — lantern processions after dark, star lanterns and masks, lion dances going from house to house, and tables of cakes, fruit and rice-dough figurines.
25 septembre 2026Calculée
መስቀል
At the end of the rainy season, Ethiopians commemorate the finding of the True Cross by lighting the demera — a great pyre decorated with yellow daisies — in Addis Ababa’s Meskel Square, where priests chant and dance before the patriarch sets it alight.
26–27 septembre 2026Calculée
مهرگان
The ancient Iranian autumn festival of Mehr — friendship, affection and the harvest. Tables are laid with pomegranates, apples and grapes, prayers are said, and there is music, dance and, in places, wrestling.
2 octobre – 2 novembre 2026Estimée
60 pays et 145 fêtes pour l’instant, chaque entrée documentée une à une.
For sixteen days each autumn Munich’s Theresienwiese becomes the world’s largest folk festival — beer tents of the city’s own breweries, a funfair, costume parades and some seven million visitors — a tradition that began with a royal wedding in 1810.
19 septembre – 4 octobre 2026Calculée
موسم طانطان
At the edge of the Sahara, nomadic peoples from more than thirty tribes gather for a great annual fair of camels and horses, tents and trade, Hassani poetry and song — revived after a quarter of a century in which it could not be held.
3–7 octobre 2026Annoncée officiellement
দুর্গাপূজা
For ten days each autumn Kolkata worships the goddess Durga — and turns into an open-air gallery. Clay images made from the mud of the Ganga fill thousands of pandals, drummers play, and crowds walk the city day and night until the images return to the river.
20 octobre 2026Annoncée officiellement
Día de Muertos
At the turn of October and November, Mexican families welcome their dead home for a brief visit. They build altars with marigolds, candles and the departed’s favourite food, decorate graves, and in some towns keep vigil in the cemetery all night.
1–2 novembre 2026Calculée
दीपावली
The festival of lights. Over five days around the new moon of autumn, homes, temples and streets glow with oil lamps and lanterns, doorsteps bloom with rangoli, families share sweets and gifts, and the darkest night of the month becomes the brightest of the year.
8 novembre 2026Annoncée officiellement
Kölner Karneval
Cologne’s “fifth season” opens at 11:11 on 11 November and explodes onto the streets in the days before Lent, when costumed crowds shout “Kölle Alaaf!” and more than a million people watch the Rose Monday parade throw sweets from its floats.
11 novembre 2026Calculée
ลอยกระทง
On the full-moon night of the twelfth Thai month, people float small decorated baskets bearing a candle, incense and a wish on rivers, canals and ponds across Thailand. In Chiang Mai the night coincides with Yi Peng, when sky lanterns drift up into the dark.
25 novembre 2026Estimée
Konkurs Szopek Krakowskich
On the first Thursday of December, hundreds of makers carry their szopki — nativity scenes shaped like Kraków’s churches, towers and cloth hall, glittering with foil and coloured paper — to the steps of the Mickiewicz monument on the Main Market Square to be judged.
3 décembre 2026Calculée
Chaque entrée est documentée à partir de sources officielles, universitaires et institutionnelles, citées en fin de page.
Les fêtes suivent leurs propres calendriers : solaires, lunaires, saisonniers. Nous calculons chaque date d’après sa règle et indiquons son degré de certitude.
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