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Makahiki. The Makahiki season is the ancient Hawaiian New Year festival, in honor of the god Lono of the Hawaiian religion . It is a holiday covering four consecutive lunar months, approximately from October or November through February or March. The focus of this season was a time for men, women and chiefs to rest, strengthen the body, and ...
Lahaina Noon. Lāhainā Noon, also known as a zero shadow day, is a semi-annual tropical solar phenomenon when the Sun culminates at the zenith at solar noon, passing directly overhead (above the subsolar point ). [ 1] As a result, the sun's rays will fall exactly vertical relative to an object on the ground and cast no observable shadow. [ 2]
August 21. ( 2026-08-21) Frequency. annual. Related to. Independence Day. Statehood Day or Admission Day is a legal holiday in the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is celebrated annually on the third Friday in August to commemorate the anniversary of the state's 1959 admission to the Union. It was first celebrated in 1969.
The Flag of Hawaii. [1] Seal. The Great Seal of the State of Hawaii. [2] Motto. " Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono " ("The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness") —. [3]
Sovereignty Restoration Day ( Hawaiian: Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea) is a national holiday of the former Hawaiian Kingdom celebrated on July 31 and still commemorated by Native Hawaiians in the state of Hawaii. It honors the restoration of sovereignty to the kingdom, following the occupation of Hawaiʻi by Great Britain during the 1843 Paulet Affair, by ...
This image of the central Pacific, captured on Friday, Apr. 12, 2024, shows the storm with its bright-colored clouds spinning northwest of Hawaii (lower center). Intense rain was occurring in the ...
Prince Kūhiō Day is an official holiday in the state of Hawaiʻi in the United States. [1] It is celebrated annually on March 26, to mark the birth of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole — heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, prince of the House of Kalākaua, and later territorial delegate to the United States Congress. [2]
Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (April 23, 1926 – December 11, 2022), also known as Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa and sometimes called Kekau, was a Native Hawaiian-American heiress, equestrian, philanthropist and supporter of Native Hawaiian heritage, culture and arts, who was born during the Territorial Period of Hawaii as a descendent of the Hawaiian royal family from the House of ...