Fecha de Navidad?

Most noticeable difference: when talking about “Navidad,” here, you’re actually talking about the 24th of December. People know that Christmas is on the 25th, and will plainly admit as much, but here it is the 24th that reigns supreme. Basically, the whole day of the 24th people cook food (tamales, arroz, frijoles, cerdo, pollo, ensalda, etc, etc, etc) and visit friends and family, eating as they go (I think final count was that I had 3 lunches and 2 dinners (of Chipotle-sized portions… and it’s rude not to eat everything (I wasn’t hungry for the next 3 days))).