St. Andrew's Day 2024

St. Andrew's Day, the feast day of Saint Andrew, is celebrated on November 30, 2024. Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and St. Andrew's Day is Scotland's official national day. It is also a national holiday in Romania.

In 2006, the Scottish Parliament passed the St. Andrew's Day Bank Holiday Act, which designated the Day as an official bank holiday. If 30 November falls on a weekend, the next Monday is a bank holiday instead. Although it is a bank holiday, banks are not required to close and employers are not required to give their employees the day off as a holiday.

In Scotland, and many countries with Scottish connections, St Andrew's Day is marked with a celebration of Scottish culture with traditional Scottish food, music and dance. Schools across Scotland hold special St Andrew's Day events and activities including art shows, Scottish country dancing, lunchtime ceilidhs, dance festivals, storytelling, reciting and writing poems, writing tall tales, cooking traditional Scottish meals, and bagpipe-playing.

In Scotland the day is also seen as the start of a season of Scottish winter festivals encompassing St Andrew's Day, Hogmanay and Burns Night. In Edinburgh, there is a week of celebrations, concentrating on musical entertainment and traditional ceilidh dancing. A ceilidh is a social event with couples dancing in circles or sets.

In Glasgow city center, a large shindig, or party, with traditional music and a ceilidh are held. In Dumfries, songs are performed in the Burn's night tradition. (With material from: Wikipedia)

More dates:

• St. Andrew's Day on Nov 30, 2025
• St. Andrew's Day on Nov 30, 2026
• St. Andrew's Day on Nov 30, 2027