This is a list of holidays in October, it includes school holidays, national holidays and
religious holidays. We include national holidays for countries all over the world, but we can not
guarantee that everything is listed here. We try to keep the October holidays list as up to date as possible.
The list of holidays in October was last updated in February 2011.
Holidays in October.
October 1 - Independence Day in Nigeria.
October 3 - German Unity Day (Germany).
October 5 - Proclamation of Portuguese Republic (Portugal).
October 6 - Armed Forces Day in Egypt commemorating the Yom Kippur War.
October 8 - Independence day in Croatia.
October 9 - Leif Erikson Day.
October 12 - National Day of Spain.
October 18 - Alaska Day.
October 25 - Day of the Romanian Army.
October 26 - National Day of Austria.
October 27 - Independence Day in St. Vincent & the Grenadines.