Which national holiday is the MOST celebrated in your city?

[Nomad9]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Wasn't listed as an option but it would be Canada Day.

I didn’t know about Canada Day...until getting randomly stuck in traffic somewhere between Toronto and Montreal while on a road trip.

[LouisianaRush]

For New Orleans, it is Mardi Gras. It is not even close. It is probably the only city I know where xmas is not top holiday. Mardi Gras season (early spring), not just the day, is also more popular and more widely celebrated over Christmas season (December).

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Wasn't listed as an option but it would be Canada Day.

yes, this. Why do people assume this is an American website?

In Quebec, it would be la Fete Nationale, aka Journee St. Jean Baptiste

[Omaharocks]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

No question in SF: Halloween

You know, the OP claimed Labor Day for Atlanta, which I think is a reasonable choice, but I'd argue Halloween is also the most celebrated here in ATL.

There's a big parade, and people go all out for halloween decorations, much more so than christmas displays, which surprised me after living most my life in the midwest.

[SFBruin]

In Chicago (not where I live), it is probably St. Patrick's day.

I wasn't there for New Year's Eve or Christmas, though.

[austin242]

I'd say Halloween or Christmas.

[mrnyc]

cleveland’s thanksgiving traffic is infamously annually the worst, or one of the worst in the country.

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and...media=AMP+HTML

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by 10023

Pretty easy for me.

Who the hell celebrates New Year’s Day?

My family does. We celebrate it with a dinner that we all come together. We usually have a ham dinner, leaving Christmas to have a turkey dinner.

Edmonton:

The holiday we celebrate by congregating as a city:

1. Canada Day (downtown fireworks draws more than 100,000 to watch as people crowd both sides of the river valley)
2. August Civic Holiday (for the Heritage Festival runs on that weekend. Draws north of 100,000 people to Hawrelak Park)
3. National Aboriginal Day (draws a good number to the festivities in Louise McKinney Park)

[mrnyc]

well the holiday season in december is traditionally nyc at its best. really the whole time between thanksgiving and three kings day.

however, for just a day, i would say both thanksgiving and st pats are the big ones.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by doglover99

DC does 4th of July but sadly there is no NYE celebration like a London or a Paris. Lame for the capital of the most powerful economy.

yeah, but what they do do extremely well for holidays of a sort in dc is the short spring hanami cherry blossom viewing season.

[kool maudit]

Midsommar!

[Centropolis]

someone was playing that movie* in the background around the holidays** during a family thing. i remember hearing that distinctive animalistic shrieking one might associate with finding human feces in a hotel room or a detached body part before the television was shut off

the american fourth of july is probably closer in reality to that sort of ritual violence

* everything is on film in the american context who can say there is any difference
** meaning thanksgiving / christmas / new years in the american context