January 1 > New Year’s Day.

January 8 > La Fete des Rois (Epiphany).

January 9 > 6.6 Kms FIAC Carib Series Lagoon Race

January 22 > Road Runners CARIB Smalta Fun Run

January 29 > Bottom Braquette Mountain Bike Endurance Ride 50 Kms

February 5 > FITA Triple Mini Triathlon

February 26 – March 1 > Carnaval celebrations on French side.

February 11 > Avenir Sportif Half Marathon

February 12 > FITA Kids’ Triathlon

February 26 > Bottom Braquette 100 Kms Road Race

February 28 > Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday). Children’s parades

March 1 > Ash Wednesday

March 3-5 > Annual Heineken Regattas.

March 17 > St. Patrick’s Day

March 19 > Road Runners Subway to Subway (8.5 Kms)

March 23 > Treaty of Concordia Celebration (Sint Maarten)

March 23 > Mi-Careme, or Mid-Lent, public holiday. Parades, parties during day-long respite from Lent

March 26 > FIAC Kayak Lagoon Rally

April 2 > Avenir Sportif Biathlon Bikle/Run in Marigot

April 14 > Good Friday (Holiday – Stores closed)

April 16 > Easter Sunday. Public holiday. Religious and family celebration

April 16 > Road Runners’ Easter Egg Hash

April 17 > Easter Monday (Holiday)

April19 – May 3 > Carnival.

April 30 > Grand Parade

April 30 > Carnival Holiday

April 30 > Queen’s birthday. Public holiday honoring the Queen of Holland, is celebrated on the Dutch & the French side.

May 1 > Labor Day. Public holiday on both sides. Picnics and general merrymaking.

May 2 > 2nd Day Parade

May 7 > FIAC Puchn’Paddle Kayak

May 8 > VE Day. Public holiday

May 14 > Mother’s Day

May 11-14 > Quicksilver SXM Challenge 2006. 6th St. Martin Challenge Windsurfing / Kite Surfing

May 12-14 > SMART – St. Maarten/St. Martin Annual Regional Tradeshow

May 13-14 > St. Maarten Open Golf Tournament

May 20-21 > St. Maarten Open Golf Tournament

May 21 > Roadrunners Lagoon Half Marathon

May 23-27 > Black Heritage week.

May 25 > Ascension Thursday. Public holiday

May 27 > Slavery Abolition Day, public holiday. Picnics, parties

May 27 > Bottom Braquette 6th Team MTB race

May 28 > Mother’s Day

June 1-3 > 4th Annual St. Martin book Fair

June 3 > Avenir Sportif – Kids Track and Field Events

June 4 > FITAS Triathlon Championship

June 4 > Pentecost Sunday.

June 7-12 > St. Martin Billfish Tournament

June 18 > Father’s Day

June 25 > Cycle Women’s Intrenational Road Race

July 1 > Emancipation Day

July 2 > FIAC Kayak 3 Person Sprint Carib

July 14 > Bastille day.

July 14 > Avenir Sportif Bastille Day Run

July 16 > Road Runners Beach Run

July 21 > Schoelcher Day.

July 21-23 > 3rd Annual St. Maarten Summerfest. Concerts

July 28-30 > 3rd Annual St. Maarten Summerfest. Concerts

August 15 > Assumption day. Public holiday

September 3 > FIAC Kayak Kim Sha to Cay Bay 8.5 Kms

September 7 > Moonlight Golf Tournament

September 17 > Road Runners Splash and Sprint

September 26 > Avenir Sportif 6 Kms and 12 Kms Run around Marigot

September 27 > World Tourism Day

October 3 > FITA Tetrathlon Run/MTB/Road Run

October 8 > Road Runners Cancer Awareness Walk & Run

October 16 > FIAC Kayak 4th Carib Series Race 25 Kms

October 21 > Antillean Day

October 23 > Road Runners Fatum 10 Kms

October 29 > 6 Hour Swim Team Swimathon

October 31 > Halloween

October 31 > November 7 > Fete de Cuisine

November > Big Game Fishing Event

November 1 > Toussaint (All Saints Day). Public holiday. All cemetery tombstones illuminated with candles

November 2 > All Souls Day. Public holiday also

November 5 > FITA Triathlon Texaco/Royal Palm

November 7 Caribbean Tourism Day

November 11 > Armistice Day. Public holiday. Commemorates the end of World War I

November 11 > St. Maarten Day. Public holiday.

November 11 > Annual Around the Island Relay Race

November 11-12 > Concordia Cup Golf Tournament

November 18-27 > The Alliance race for mono and multi hulls as well as Fun boats.

November 19 > FIAC Kayak around the island relay race

December > St. Martin Lighting Parade

December > St. Martin Annual Christmas Lights Competition

December > National Day for Thanksgiving, Peace & Consolation

December > Pan in Paradise. Folkloric Steel Pan Concert

December > St. Maarten Charter Yacht Exhibition

December 2 > Avenir Sportif 3 Kms Telethon Team Relay

December 3 > Miss Caribbean Hibiscus Pageant

December9 > Annual Santa Scramble Golf tournament

December 10 > Bottom Braquette Road/Bike race 44.5 Kms/75 Kms/100 Kms

December 15 > Kingdom (of the Netherlands) Day – Holiday

December 17 > FITA Burger King’s Kids Triathlon

December 17 > Road Runners Green House 10 Kms run

December 24 > Christmas Eve. Dancing, and dining on Creole specialties. Midnight Mass. Reveillon

December 25 > Christmas Day. Public holiday. Singing, exchanging of gifts, feasting

December 26 > Boxing Day (Sint Maarten). Public holiday

December 31 > Reveillon de la Saint Sylvestre (New Year’s Eve celebration).