January

Every year

Fixed dates

Global

• 1st: New Years Day (Gregorian calendar) - all night parties and celebrations including fireworks displays in cities and locations worldwide, but especially Western ones

Australia

• 26th: Australia Day in Australia - a public holiday commemorating the arrival of the convict First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of both the city of Sydney and the colony of New South Wales, celebrated in grand style in Sydney (especially) and country-wide, with public firework displays and home barbeques

Movable dates

Global

• Late January or early February: Chinese New Year, celebrated in China, Singapore and anywhere where there are large concentrations of Chinese

Australia

• Australia's largest country music festival => is held in Tamworth, northern New South Wales

South Korea

• Late January or early February: Korean Lunar New Year (Seollal), South Korea

Vietnam

• Late January or early February: Vietnamese New Year (T?t), Vietnam

The authors of this document are Tom Webb and the following WikiTravel users: Hypatia, InterLangBot, Jpatokal, Pjamescowie, Ravikiran_r, Sjc196, Jonboy. The original version of this article can be seen at http://wikitravel.org/en/January.