Festivals

[Mysterysword]

So I need a list of the various annual events and important dates that take place throughout the Eorzean year. Note: annual - I only want events that take place every year. Also preferably in handy note format, so I can conveniently pin them to specific cells in my Eorzean calendar spreadsheet.

I know that the game is very vague about when the various festivals take place, so I'm fine with rough estimates of when exactly they take place, time-bubble notwithstanding. I'd like citations of which month or season, if not which day, a festival takes place, and I'd also like a list of the more obscure events, such as that Third Astral/Umbral Moon feast that I vaguely recall reading in a levequest.

[LineageRazor]

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Seasonal_Events

If you're asking what specific Eorzean months these take place, as opposed to real-life months, I do not believe that information is ever provided, in-game or out. In fact, I'm not sure the Eorzean calendar is EVER mentioned in-game, for any purpose, aside from character creation. I can't recall any NPC ever mentioning "the sixth Umbral Moon", or whatever. You'll have to make your best guess. It wouldn't be out of line to use the real-life month to approximate the in-game month, in absence of other data.

[Annana]

Each real life month lines up with a Moon in Eorzea.

January is the First Astral Moon, for instance.

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Time

[Enkidoh]

Most of the special events are actually based on real life holidays or events though, both Western/US festivals like Starlight Celebration (Christmas), Valentione's Day (Valentine's Day), Egg Hunt (Easter) and All Saints' Wake (Halloween), and Japanese festivals like Heavensturn (New Year), Little Ladies' Day (Doll Festival) and Moonfire Faire (Tanabata/summer) - the only seasonal event that isn't is the Rising that celebrates the game's real-life rebirth from the 'ashes of 1.0' (and in story, the restoration of the world following the Calamity). All these events are run at the times corresponding to the real world and have no actual in-game bearing on the Eorzean calendar.

This is because story-wise Hydaelyn exists in a kind of 'time bubble' where the passage of time is only noted to occur if necessary for the plot. Otherwise, despite regular seasonal events happening as the real world calendar proceeds, there is no actual meta connection to the time and date they occur in real life and in Eorzea.

Technically, Hydaelyn is still in the year 1 7th Astral Era and it is still five years since the Calamity occurred, despite the constant progression of seasonal events from year to year. A little suspension of disbelief is needed here.

[Mysterysword]

Technically, Hydaelyn is still in the year 1 7th Astral Era and it is still five years since the Calamity occurred, despite the constant progression of seasonal events from year to year. A little suspension of disbelief is needed here.

I am aware of this, I'm not trying to track the amount of time that has taken place in-game, nor am I trying to make any comparisons to real-life time lapses. I know about the time bubble and all that. What I'm asking is, in a single, typical Eorzean year, how many and what kind of festivals would take place during the course of that year? Hypothetically speaking, anyway.

Also, the Eorzean year has 384 days, so it's hard to compare it to a Gregorian year.

[Hasrat]

Also, the Eorzean year has 384 days, so it's hard to compare it to a Gregorian year.

How so? Character creation gives a day by day correlation. All you really need to do is pick out the Eorzean days that correspond to the irl dates of the holidays being celebrated, and you've got your answers.

[Keever]

It's not a day by day correlation. In character creation, sometimes two Eorzean days in a row both correlate to the same Earth day. That's because every month in the Eorzean calendar contains 32 days, without exception.