Cinco de Mayo 2025
When is Cinco de Mayo 2025?
Cinco de Mayo 2024 has already passed: it was on Sunday, May 5, 2024 (189 days ago).
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What is Cinco de Mayo?
Cinco de Mayo parade
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday celebrated annually on May 5. Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for 'Fifth of May' and commemorates the unlikely victory of the Mexican Army over superior French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Even though it is only a public holiday in the state of Puebla, where the battle took place, and not in the rest of the country, schools are closed nationwide on this day.
Over the last decades Cinco de Mayo has gained increasing popularity in the Mexican-American population of the United States for the celebration of Mexican culture, heritage, cuisine, dance and music, comparable to
St. Patrick's Day for the Irish. Parades are staged and events, celebrations and ceremonies are held on this day, especially in areas in the Southwest that have large populations of Americans of Mexican descent.
Cinco de Mayo is not, as sometimes mistakenly assumed, Mexico's Independence Day, which is celebrated on September 16.
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Dates for Cinco de Mayo in other years
The next occurrence of Cinco de Mayo is marked in
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When is ...? |
Date |
Day of the week |
Days away |
Cinco de Mayo 2020 |
May 5, 2020 |
Tuesday |
1650 days ago |
Cinco de Mayo 2021 |
May 5, 2021 |
Wednesday |
1285 days ago |
Cinco de Mayo 2022 |
May 5, 2022 |
Thursday |
920 days ago |
Cinco de Mayo 2023 |
May 5, 2023 |
Friday |
555 days ago |
Cinco de Mayo 2024 |
May 5, 2024 |
Sunday |
189 days ago |
Cinco de Mayo 2025 |
May 5, 2025 |
Monday |
in 175 days |
Cinco de Mayo 2026 |
May 5, 2026 |
Tuesday |
in 540 days |
Cinco de Mayo 2027 |
May 5, 2027 |
Wednesday |
in 905 days |
Cinco de Mayo 2028 |
May 5, 2028 |
Friday |
in 1271 days |
Cinco de Mayo 2029 |
May 5, 2029 |
Saturday |
in 1636 days |
Cinco de Mayo 2030 |
May 5, 2030 |
Sunday |
in 2001 days |
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