Day Guide for Monday October 13th 2025 What are the holidays on October 13th 2025?

This is our day guide for Monday October 13th 2025 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?

Holidays on October 13th 2025

International: Indigenous Resistance Day

Honors the indigenous people of the Americas on the date when Columbus first set foot in the Americas

International: Columbus Day

This national holiday commemorates the exact date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas

American Samoa: White Sunday

A religious day dedicated to the children of American Samoa

Bahamas: National Heroes' Day

The second Monday in October is National Heroes Day, which replaced Discovery Day in 2013

Belize: Indigenous People’s Resistance Day (in lieu)

Marks the arrival of Columbus in the Americas on October 12th 1492

Burundi: Prince Louis Rwagasore Day

Marks the assassination in 1961 of a Burundi nationalist and prime minister

Public sector only

Canada: Thanksgiving

Celebrated on the Second Monday in October and statutory, except in Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Cape Verde: Public Holiday

A public holiday has been declared to enable citizens to support the national football team as they aim to qualify for the World Cup.

Equatorial Guinea: Independence Day (in lieu)

Independence from Spain on 12 October 1968, when the country became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Japan: Health-Sports Day

Japan celebrates Sports Day to promote sports and an active lifestyle to ensure a healthy mind and body

Samoa: Lotu a Tamaiti Holiday

Day after White Sunday, when parents and communities celebrate childhood

Sint Maarten: Constitution Day

The constitution came into force on October 10th 2010, the date of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles

Regional

Spain (regional): Hispanic Day (in lieu)

This national holiday commemorates the exact date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas

Thailand: The Passing of King Bhumibol

In remembrance of His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX who died on October 13th 2016.

Turks and Caicos Islands: National Heritage Day

This holiday replaced Columbus Day in 2014, which was also held on the second Monday In October

Regional

USA (regional): US Indigenous People's Day

This state holiday has been adopted on the second Monday in October to replace Columbus Day

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General Information for October 13th 2025
There are 16 public holidays today.
Day 286 of 2025
79 days left in 2025
Week 42 of the year
On this Day in History
1990 - End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.
1917 - The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.