Trinidad and Tobago Festivals and Important Holiday Dates

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Trinidad and Tobago Festivals
and Important Holiday Dates

A great, vacation-planning resource...

Knowing the exact dates of important Trinidad and Tobago festivals can make a big difference when planning your vacation.

What often makes this difficult, especially when planning a year or two in advance, is that so many of these festival dates are determined by lunar events.

To make your planning easier, here are dates for a 21-year period. You never know when you might have to plan a big family reunion, or perhaps schedule a wedding, and attending one of these festivals would be the icing on the proverbial cake...


	CARNIVAL	PHAGWA	HOSAY	EID	DIWALI
2010	Feb 15-16	Mar 1	Dec 13-16, 19	Sep 10	Nov 5
2011	Mar 7-8	Mar 20	Dec 3-6, 9	Aug 31	Oct 26
2012	Feb 20-21	Mar 8	Nov 21-24, 27	Aug 19	Nov 13
2013	Feb 11-12		Nov 11-14, 17	Aug 9	Nov 3
2014	Mar 3-4		Oct 31-Nov 3, 7	Jul 29	Oct 23
2015	Feb 16-17		Oct 20-23, 26	Jul 18	Nov 11
2016	Feb 8-9		Oct 8-11, 14	Jul 6	Oct 30
2017	Feb 27-28		Sep 28-Oct 1, 4	Jun 25	Oct 19
2018	Feb 12-13		Sep 17-20, 23	Jun 15	Nov 7
2019	Mar 4-5		Sep 7-10, 13	Jun 5	Oct 27
2020	Feb 24-25		Aug 26-29, Sep 1	May 24	Nov 14
2021	Feb 15-16		Aug 16-19, 31	May 13	Nov 4
2022	Feb 28-Mar 1		Aug 5-8, 11	May 2	Oct 25
2023	Feb 20-21		Jul 25-28, 31	Apr 21	Nov 12
2024	Feb 12-13		Jul 13-16, 19	Apr 10	Nov 1
2025	Mar 3-4		Jul 3-6, 9	Mar 31	Oct 21
2026	Feb 16-17		Jun 22-25, 28	Mar 20	Nov 8
2027	Feb 8-9		Jun 12-15, 18	Mar 10	Oct 29
2028	Feb 28-29		Jun 1-4, 7	Feb 27	Oct 17
2029	Feb 12 -13		May 21-24, 27	Feb 15	Nov 5
2030	Mar 4-5		May 10-13, 19	Feb 4	Oct 26

Scheduling one of these Trinidad and Tobago festivals into your vacation plans can often make the difference between a great vacation and an extraordinary one.

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Dates permitting, it would be ideal if you are able schedule 2 major Trinidad and Tobago festivals into your holiday plans, like Trinidad Carnival and Phagwa together for example, or Hosay and Diwali.

In this way you really get the full multi-cultural experience that Trinidad offers. So look out for those years when important dates align. Also, while you may not have considered it, spending Christmas in Trinidad and Tobago can be eye opening. Who needs snow to enjoy the Holiday Season, Trinidadians don't, they have Parang, Ponchacrema, Pastelle and Poinsettia.
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