Short answer: Halloween is celebrated on October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day. It grew out of the Celtic festival of Samhain and is known today for costumes, carved pumpkins and trick-or-treating. NanoIP's Halloween sale runs from October 19 to November 2, 2026 (UTC): 20% off residential and mobile proxies, and up to 40% off ISP proxies on longer plans, renewals included.
What is Halloween?
Halloween falls on the evening of October 31 every year. The name is a shortened form of "All Hallows' Eve", the evening before All Hallows' Day, better known as All Saints' Day, on November 1.
Where it comes from
Halloween's roots go back to Samhain, a festival of the Celtic peoples of Ireland, Scotland and other parts of north-western Europe. Samhain marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter, a time when the boundary between the living and the dead was believed to grow thin. People lit bonfires and wore disguises. When the Church later placed All Saints' Day on November 1, the old customs gathered around the evening before it.
Irish and Scottish emigrants brought the holiday to North America in the 19th century, and it grew from there into the celebration known around the world today.
Halloween traditions
- Jack-o'-lanterns. In Ireland and Scotland, people carved faces into turnips and lit them from inside. In North America, pumpkins were larger and easier to carve, and they became the symbol of the holiday.
- Costumes. Dressing up began as a way to disguise yourself on the night spirits were thought to walk. Today costumes range from witches and ghosts to film characters.
- Trick-or-treating. Children in costume go from door to door saying "trick or treat" and collect sweets.
- Decorations. Bats, black cats, ghosts, spiders and a full moon appear on houses, in shop windows and on websites, ours included.
Where Halloween is celebrated
Halloween is most widely celebrated in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. In many other countries it has caught on as a night for costume parties, themed events and shop promotions.
Why Halloween matters for online businesses
For online sellers, Halloween opens the year-end shopping season. It is followed within weeks by Singles' Day on November 11, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas, and sellers change prices, launch seasonal ads and add stock in several markets at once. Proxies help with the checks that come with that:
- Seasonal ads. Confirm that holiday ads show the right offer, language and landing page in each country, with ad verification from local IPs.
- Holiday prices. Follow how competitors price their holiday deals in each market with price monitoring.
- Storefronts and accounts. Keep each store account on its own stable IP through the busy weeks, as in e-commerce operations.
If you are not sure which product fits each job, the NanoIP proxies overview explains the three products and when to use each.
NanoIP's Halloween sale
The sale runs from October 19 to November 2, 2026, and ends at 23:59 UTC on November 2. It covers all three products:
| Product | Plan | Halloween discount |
|---|---|---|
| Residential proxies | Every traffic package | 20% off |
| Mobile proxies | Every traffic package | 20% off |
| ISP proxies | 30 days | 20% off |
| ISP proxies | 180 days | 30% off |
| ISP proxies | 360 days | 40% off |
ISP renewals are included: if you already have ISP IPs, renewing them during the sale gets the same discount, and you keep the same IPs. The pricing page shows the Halloween prices for every plan while the sale is on.
Which plan to choose
- Accounts you will run for months: a 360-day ISP plan has the largest discount, 40% off, and keeps one static IP for all 360 days.
- Existing ISP IPs: renew them during the sale to keep the same IPs at the Halloween price.
- Data collection: residential traffic is 20% off on every package. Larger packages already cost less per GB, and the 1 TB package does not expire, so traffic bought now does not run out of time.
- Work that needs a carrier network: mobile traffic is 20% off on every package, and the 1 TB and 5 TB packages do not expire either.
How to buy at the Halloween price
- Open the NanoIP purchase page. New users can sign up there.
- Choose the product and plan.
- Complete the purchase before 23:59 UTC on November 2.
NanoIP accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB, UnionPay and Alipay.
Frequently asked questions
When does NanoIP's Halloween sale end?
At 23:59 UTC on November 2, 2026. The sale started on October 19.
Does the Halloween discount apply to ISP renewals?
Yes. Renewing ISP IPs during the sale gets the same discount as a new purchase of the same period, and the IPs stay the same.
Is Halloween on the same date every year?
Yes. Halloween is always on October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day.