Halloween

Halloween falls on 31 October and, like every calendar date, arrives first in the Pacific and last in the Americas, a rolling wave that takes 26 hours from Kiritimati in the Line Islands to Baker Island. In Wales the night has older roots as Nos Galan Gaeaf, one of the three spirit nights of the Welsh year, marking the start of winter in the pre-Christian calendar. Trick-or-treating typically runs from dusk, which by late October in Cardiff means shortly after 6:00pm.