16 Holidays, Ranked Head-to-Head
All 16 holidays here, ranked by 72 players. Christmas leads: it wins 87.3% of its matchups (n = 244) and was champion in 41 of 72 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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St. Patrick's DayMarch 17
Father's Day3rd Sunday in June
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Holidays: the community’s best
Win rate across 1,056 head-to-head picks from 72 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Holiday | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 213–31 | 87.3% | 41 | 244 | ||
| 2 | HalloweenOctober 31 | 150–59 | 71.8% | 13 | 209 | |
| 3 | 113–61 | 64.9% | 8 | 174 | ||
| 4 | 88–67 | 56.8% | 2 | 155 | ||
| 5 | 4th of JulyJuly 4 | 88–69 | 56.1% | 3 | 157 | |
| 6 | 70–69 | 50.4% | 0 | 139 | ||
| 7 | Mother's Day2nd Sunday in May | 60–71 | 45.8% | 1 | 131 | |
| 8 | 57–71 | 44.5% | 1 | 128 |
Holidays: the community tier list
From 1,056 head-to-head picks in 72 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Christmas
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Halloween
- New Year's Eve/Day
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Thanksgiving
- 4th of July
- Easter
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Mother's Day
- Valentine's Day
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Memorial Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- Father's Day
- Black Friday
- Cinco de Mayo
- Mardi Gras
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Labor Day
- Groundhog Day
How the Holidays bracket works
This holiday ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Christmas or Halloween? Thanksgiving or New Year's Eve/Day? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two options is far easier than sorting 16 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 16 options in the field. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same option can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve/Day. Updated
- ChristmasDecember 25Photo: derivative work: Crumpled Fire / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- HalloweenOctober 31Photo: Toby Ord / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Thanksgiving4th Thursday in NovemberPhoto: Ms Jones / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- New Year's Eve/DayDecember 31 / January 1Photo: Andreas Weith / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4th of JulyJuly 4
- Valentine's DayFebruary 14
- EasterSpring
- Mother's Day2nd Sunday in May
- Father's Day3rd Sunday in June
- St. Patrick's DayMarch 17Artwork: Andreas F. Borchert / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Memorial DayLast Monday in May
- Labor Day1st Monday in September
- Cinco de MayoMay 5
- Mardi GrasBefore LentPhoto: Infrogmation of New Orleans / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Groundhog DayFebruary 2Photo: Anthony Quintano / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Black FridayDay after ThanksgivingPhoto: Powhusku / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tier list instead?
Load all 16 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own holiday bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Trust the first instinct. Overthinking a matchup usually produces a ranking you do not agree with later.
- The default run puts all 16 options in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
What is the best holiday?
According to 72 BracketRanker players, Christmas (December 25). It wins 87.3% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 244) and was champion in 41 of 72 brackets (56.9%).
How many options are in the Holidays bracket?
The pool holds 16 options. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which options are included?
Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve/Day, 4th of July, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Holidays bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a holidays tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other option grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two options that never met. If you would rather place the options into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community holidays ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Holidays community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which options are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own options, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.