Month at a Glance
January is the month where everyone pretends they've figured it out. The calendar rolls over, the gym gets crowded for about ten days, and the rest of the world quietly settles back into the habits it had in December. It's also the start of the US federal year, a rich month for historical anniversaries, and the one stretch of the calendar where nobody argues about whether it's actually cold yet.
2026 Calendar
Every day in January
The last day of Kwanzaa (African Americans)
Ancestry Day (Haiti)
Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan)
The eleventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
Christian Feast day: Charles of Mount Argus
Christian Feast day: André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day: André Bessette (Canada)
Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)
Fête du Vodoun (Benin)
Children's Day (Tunisia)
Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
Constitution Day (Mongolia)
Defender of the Motherland Day (Uzbekistan)
Arbor Day (Egypt)
National Religious Freedom Day (United States)
National Day (Menorca, Spain)
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)
Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance: Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi)
Armed Forces Day (Mali)
Babinden (Bulgaria, Serbia)
Day of Unity of Ukraine (Ukraine)
Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands)
Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (Romania)
Betico Day (Aruba)
Australia Day (Australia)
Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)
Army Day (Armenia)
Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)
Christian Feast Day: Adelelmus of Burgos
Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)