Christmas-linked holidays

Yule (, ) is a winter festival and time of the year historically observed by heathen Germanic peoples that was later merged with the festival of Christmas during the process of Christianisation. The oldest accounts describe two Yule-months around the winter solstice in early, and sometimes explicitly heathen, Germanic calendars.

feast day of Saint Martin of Tours

Christian feast day dedicated to Lucy of Syracuse and observed on 13 December

feast day

national holiday in Japan

Christmas celebrations and traditions in Nazi Germany

holiday

traditional holiday in Colombia

Takanakuy (Quechua for "to hit each other") is an annual established practice of fighting fellow community members held on 25 December, by the inhabitants of Chumbivilcas Province, near Cuzco, in Peru. The practice started in Santo Tomás, the capital of Chumbivilcas, and subsequently spread to other villages and cities, the prominent ones being Cuzco and Lima. The festival consists of dancing and of individuals fighting each other to settle old conflicts.

thumb|Pomegranate (in Turkish: Nar) thematic table in Nardugan

Hebrew name for Christmas Eve

annual event in Oaxaca, Mexico