Samhain / Date
Evening of Fri, Oct 31, 2025 – Sat, Nov 1, 2025
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Samhain or Sauin is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year.
Samhain, the Celtic year's end and the beginning of the new one, is celebrated on the Eve of Samhain, as the Celts believed that night precedes day.
Samhain
Festival
Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2025 – Sat, Nov 1, 2025
Samhain, a Celtic festival, is held on November 1 and is believed to bring the gods' world into view and play tricks on mortals.
Samhain, the festival of the dead, is celebrated on the 31st October in the northern hemisphere, or 1st May in the southern hemisphere.
This is the festival celebrating the time of year when “the summer goes to rest”. It was an agricultural festival and a time for “stock-taking” before the ...
Oct 30, 2024 · There are four seasonal festivals: Samhain, Beltane, Imbolg, and Lughnasa, representing the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Samhain marks the ...
It is part of a pagan, Celtic spiritual tradition that marks the end of summer, welcoming in the harvest, and bringing in the darker half of the year.
Sep 28, 2023 · Plan a visit to Ireland in a month, including stops in Dublin, Galway, Cork, and Dublin for Samhain.
Oct 28, 2024 · Samhain is the third and final harvest festival, falling after Lughnasad in August and the autumn equinox in September.
Nov 13, 2022 · What were the nation(s) that really started the Samhain festival? I know it's a Celtic tradition, but I need to clarify this term for my students.