2022 Social Media Holidays to Add to Your Content Calendar

Does your social media calendar need a little inspiration? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve rounded up an ultimate list of social media holidays for 2022.

No matter what type of business you’re creating social media content for, you’re sure to find a holiday relevant to your target audience. There are holidays for the environment, social justice, health and wellness, and just plain fun.

Take a look at the list of 2022 social media holidays below (hashtags included!) and see which ones you can work into your content calendar this year.

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January 2022 Social Media Holidays

January is Financial Wellness Month, Walk Your Dog Month, and National Hobby Month.

January 2: Science Fiction Day #ScienceFictionDay
January 4: National Trivia Day #NationalTriviaDay
January 5: National Bird Day #NationalBirdDay
January 11: Clean Off Your Desk Day #CleanOffYourDeskDay
January 13: National Sticker Day #NationalStickerDay
January 15: National Hat Day #NationalHatDay and National Bagel Day #NationalBagelDay
January 17: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day #MLKDay
January 20: Cheese Lovers Day #CheeseLoversDay and Get to Know Your Customers Day #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
January 21: National Hugging Day #NationalHuggingDay
January 24: National Compliment Day #NationalComplimentDay
January 25: Opposite Day #OppositeDay
January 28: Data Privacy Day #PrivacyAware
January 31: Community Manager Appreciation Day #CMAD

February 2022 Social Media Holidays

February is Black History Month, American Heart Month, and National Snack Food Month.

February 2: Groundhog Day #GroundhogDay and World Wetlands Day #WorldWetlandsDay
February 4: World Cancer Day #WorldCancerDay
February 5: National Weatherperson’s Day #NationalWeatherpersonsDay
February 7: National Send a Card to a Friend Day #SendACardToAFriendDay
February 8: National Boy Scouts Day #BoyScoutsDay and Safer Internet Day #SID2022
February 9: National Pizza Day #NationalPizzaDay
February 11: Inventors Day #InventorsDay and International Day of Women and Girls in Science #WomenInScience
February 13: World Radio Day #WorldRadioDay and Galentine’s Day #GalentinesDay
February 17: Random Acts of Kindness Day #RandomActsOfKindnessDay
February 18: National Battery Day #NationalBatteryDay
February 20: World Day of Social Justice #SocialJusticeDay and Love Your Pet Day #LoveYourPetDay
February 25: National Skip the Straw Day #SkiptheStrawDay

March 2022 Social Media Holidays

March is Women’s History Month, National Caffeine Awareness Month, and National Crafting Month.

March 1: Zero Discrimination Day #ZeroDiscriminationDay
March 2: National Read Across America Day #ReadAcrossAmericaDay #DrSeussDay
March 3: World Wildlife Day #WorldWildlifeDay
March 4: National Grammar Day #NationalGrammarDay and National Employee Appreciation Day #EmployeeAppreciationDay and National Day of Unplugging #NationalDayOfUnplugging
March 6: National Dentist’s Day #DentistsDay
March 7: National Be Heard Day #NationalBeHeardDay and National Cereal Day #NationalCerealDay
March 8: International Women’s Day #WomensDay #IWD2022 and National Proofreading Day #NationalProofreadingDay
March 10: National Pack Your Lunch Day #NationalPackYourLunchDay
March 11: National Worship of Tools Day #WorshipOfToolsDay and Popcorn Lover’s Day #PopcornLoversDay
March 12: National Girl Scout Day #GirlScoutDay
March 14: Pi Day #PiDay and Potato Chip Day #NationalPotatoChipDay
March 15: National Napping Day #NationalNappingDay and World Consumer Rights Day #WorldConsumerRightsDay
March 16: National Freedom of Information Day #FreedomOfInformationDay
March 18: Global Recycling Day #GlobalRecyclingDay and Awkward Moments Day #NationalAwkwardMomentsDay
March 19: National Let’s Laugh Day #NationalLetsLaughDay and World Sleep Day #WorldSleepDay and Red Nose Day #RedNoseDay
March 20: International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayofHappiness and World Storytelling Day #WorldStorytellingDay
March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination #RacialDiscriminationDay and World Poetry Day #WorldPoetryDay
March 22: World Water Day #WorldWaterDay
March 23: National Puppy Day #NationalPuppyDay
March 24: All Women’s Equal Pay Day #EqualPayDay
March 25: Tolkien Reading Day #TolkienReadingDay
March 26: National Spinach Day #NationalSpinachDay and Purple Day #PurpleDay
March 27: Earth Hour Day #EarthHour
March 29: National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day #MomPopBusinessOwnersDay
March 30: Doctor’s Day #NationalDoctorsDay and National Take a Walk in the Park Day #NationalWalkInTheParkDay
March 31: World Backup Day #WorldBackupDay and Transgender Day of Visibility #TransDayofVisibility #TDOV

April 2022 Social Media Holidays

April is National Stress Awareness Month, Volunteer Month, and National Poetry Month.

April 1: April Fools Day #AprilFools
April 2: World Autism Awareness Day #WAAD
April 3: Find a Rainbow Day #FindARainbowDay
April 4: Hug a Newsperson Day #HugANewsperson
April 5: World Health Day #LetsTalk
April 6: National Walking Day #NationalWalkingDay
April 7: World Health Day #WorldHealthDay
April 10: National Siblings Day #NationalSiblingsDay and Encourage a Young Writer Day #EncourageAYoungWriterDay
April 11: National Pet Day #NationalPetDay
April 12: International Day of Human Space Flight #InternationalDayOfHumanSpaceFlight
April 15: National Tax Day #TaxDay and National High-Five Day #NH5D
April 16: National Stress Awareness Day #StressAwarenessDay and National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day #PJDay
April 17: Haiku Poetry Day #HaikuPoetryDay
April 18: National Columnists’ Day #NationalColumnistDay
April 20: National Look-Alike Day #NationalLookAlikeDay
April 21: National Administrative Professionals Day #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay and Get to Know Your Customers Day #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
April 22: Earth Day #EarthDay2022
April 23: National Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day #TakeOurChildrenToWorkDay and National Picnic Day #NationalPicnicDay and World Book Day #WorldBookDay
April 25: National Telephone Day #NationalTelephoneDay
April 28: Denim Day #DenimDay and National Superhero Day #NationalSuperheroDay
April 29: International Dance Day #InternationalDanceDay
April 30: National Honesty Day #NationalHonestyDay and National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day #AdoptAShelterPetDay

May 2022 Social Media Holidays

May is Asian Heritage Month, Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month.

May 1: International Workers Day #IntWorkersDay
May 4: Star Wars Day #StarWarsDay #Maythe4thBeWithYou and Thank a Teacher Day #ThankATeacher
May 5: Cinco de Mayo #CincoDeMayo
May 6: National Nurses Day #NursesDay
May 7: World Password Day #WorldPasswordDay and Space Day #SpaceDay
May 9: Europe Day #EuropeDay
May 12: National Limerick Day #NationalLimerickDay and National Receptionist Day #NationalReceptionistDay
May 15: International Day of Families #FamilyDay
May 16: Love a Tree Day #LoveATreeDay
May 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia #IDAHOT2022
May 18: International Museums Day #IMD2022
May 21: National Memo Day #NationalMemoDay and National Bike to Work Day #BTWD and Endangered Species Day #EndangeredSpeciesDay
May 24: National Scavenger Hunt Day #NationalScavengerHuntDay
May 27: Heat Awareness Day #NoFryDay
May 28: World Hunger Day #WorldHungerDay
May 29: Paperclip Day #PaperclipDay

June 2022 Social Media Holidays

June is Pride Month, Great Outdoors Month, and National Adopt a Cat Month.

June 1: Global Day of Parents #GlobalDayOfParents
June 3: Global Running Day #GlobalRunningDay
June 4: National Donut Day #NationalDonutDay
June 5: World Environment Day #WorldEnvironmentDay
June 6: National Cancer Survivors Day #NCSD2022 and Higher Education Day #HigherEducationDay
June 8: World Oceans Day #WorldOceansDay and Best Friends Day #BestFriendsDay
June 13: International Children’s Day #ChildrensDay
June 14: World Blood Donor Day #GiveBlood
June 14: National Flag Day #FlagDay
June 19: Juneteenth (Freedom Day) #Juneteenth
June 20: World Refugee Day #WithRefugees
June 21: National Selfie Day #NationalSelfieDay and World Music Day #WorldMusicDay and International Yoga Day #InternationalYogaDay
June 24: National Handshake Day #HandshakeDay
June 25: Take Your Dog to Work Day #TakeYourDogToWorkDay
June 27: National Sunglasses Day #NationalSunglassesDay
June 30: Social Media Day #SMDay #SocialMediaDay

July 2022 Social Media Holidays

July is National Anti-Boredom Month, National Ice Cream Month, and National Make a Difference to Children Month.

July 1: National Postal Worker Day #NationalPostalWorkerDay
July 2: World UFO Day #WorldUFODay
July 3: International Plastic Bag Free Day #PlasticBagFreeDay
July 7: World Chocolate Day #WorldChocolateDay
July 11: Cheer Up the Lonely Day #CheerUpTheLonelyDay
July 15: Give Something Away Day #GiveSomethingAwayDay #GivingDay and Get to Know Your Customers Day #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
July 17: World Emoji Day #WorldEmojiDay
July 18: National Ice Cream Day #IceCreamDay and World Listening Day #WorldListeningDay
July 30: Talk in an Elevator Day #TalkInAnElevatorDay
July 30: International Day of Friendship #DayOfFriendship

August 2022 Social Media Holidays

August is Black Business Month, Back to School Month, and National Sandwich Month.

August 1: Respect for Parents Day #RespectForParentsDay
August 2: National Coloring Book Day #NationalColoringBookDay
August 3: Black Women’s Equal Pay Day #BlackWomensEqualPay
August 8: International Cat Day #InternationalCatDay
August 9: National Book Lovers Day #NationalBookLoversDay
August 10: National Lazy Day #LazyDay
August 11: National Sons and Daughters Day #SonsAndDaughtersDay
August 12: International Youth Day #YouthDay and World Elephant Day #WorldElephantDay
August 13: International Lefthanders Day #LefthandersDay
August 14: National Financial Awareness Day #FinancialAwarenessDay
August 15: National Relaxation Day #NationalRelaxationDay
August 16: National Tell a Joke Day #NationalTellAJokeDay
August 19: World Photo Day #WorldPhotoDay and World Humanitarian Day #WorldHumanitarianDay
August 20: National Lemonade Day #NationalLemonadeDay
August 26: National Dog Day #NationalDogDay and National Women’s Equality Day #WomensEqualityDay

September 2022 Social Media Holidays

September is World Alzheimer’s Month, Classical Music Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month.

September 4: National Wildlife Day #NationalWildlifeDay
September 5: International Day of Charity #CharityDay
September 6: Read a Book Day #ReadABookDay
September 8: International Literacy Day #LiteracyDay
September 10: Stand Up To Cancer Day #KissCancerGoodbye
September 11: National Day of Service and Remembrance #911Day
September 12: Civic Day of Hacking #HackForChange
September 12: National Grandparents Day #NationalGrandparentsDay and National Day of Encouragement #DayOfEncouragement and National Video Games Day #NationalVideoGamesDay
September 19: Talk Like a Pirate Day #TalkLikeAPirateDay
September 21: International Day of Peace #PeaceDay and World Alzheimer’s Day #WorldAlzheimersDay and Miniature Golf Day #MiniGolfDay
September 22: Car-Free Day #CarFreeDay and Hobbit Day #HobbitDay
September 26: National Pancake Day #NationalPancakeDay
September 27: World Tourism Day #WTD2022
September 28: World Rabies Day #WorldRabiesDay
September 28: National Good Neighbor Day #GoodNeighborDay
September 29: National Women’s Health and Fitness Day #FitnessDay
September 30: International Podcast Day #InternationalPodcastDay

October 2022 Social Media Holidays

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Emotional Wellness Month, and National Pizza Month.

October 1: International Coffee Day #InternationalCoffeeDay and World Vegetarian Day #WorldVegetarianDay and World Smile Day #WorldSmileDay
October 2: International Day of Nonviolence #InternationalDayOfNonviolence
October 3: National Techies Day #TechiesDay
October 4: World Animal Day #WorldAnimalDay and National Taco Day #NationalTacoDay and World Habitat Day #WorldHabitatDay
October 5: World Teachers Day #WorldTeachersDay
October 10: World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHeathDay
October 11: International Day of the Girl #DayOfTheGirl and Indigenous Peoples’ Day #IndigenousPeoplesDay and National Coming Out Day #NationalComingOutDay
October 14: World Sight Day #WorldSightDay and National Dessert Day #DessertDay
October 15: Global Handwashing Day #GlobalHandwashingDay
October 16: World Food Day #FoodDay and Bosses Day #BossesDay
October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty #EndPoverty
October 20: World Statistics Day #StatisticsDay
October 21: Reptile Awareness Day #ReptileAwarenessDay and Get to Know Your Customers Day #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
October 24: United Nations Day #UNDay
October 25: Greasy Foods Day #GreasyFoodsDay
October 29: National Cat Day #NationalCatDay
October 30: National Publicist Day #NationalPublicistDay and Checklist Day #ChecklistDay

November 2022 Social Media Holidays

November is No-Shave November (also known as Movember), National Novel Writing Month, and National Entrepreneurship Month.

November 1: World Vegan Day #WorldVeganDay and National Authors Day #NationalAuthorsDay and National Cook For Your Pets Day #CookForYourPetsDay
November 3: National Sandwich Day #NationalSandwichDay
November 4: National Candy Day #NationalCandyDay
November 8: National Cappuccino Day #CappuccinoDay and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) Day #STEMDay
November 13: World Kindness Day #WKD
November 14: World Diabetes Day #WDD
November 15: Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day #CleanOutYourRefrigeratorDay and America Recycles Day #BeRecycled
November 16: International Day for Tolerance #ToleranceDay and National Entrepreneurs Day #EntrepreneursDay
November 17: International Students Day #InternationalStudentsDay
November 19: International Men’s Day #InternationalMensDay
November 20: Universal Children’s Day #UNChildrensDay
November 21: World Hello Day #WorldHelloDay
November 26: National Cake Day #NationalCakeDay and National Day of Listening #DayOfListening and Small Business Saturday #SmallBusinessSaturday #ShopSmall
November 29: Electronic Greeting Card Day #ElectronicGreetingCardDay and Giving Tuesday #GivingTuesday
November 30: Computer Security Day #ComputerSecurityDay

December 2022 Social Media Holidays

December is HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, Learn a Foreign Language Month, and National Tie Month.

December 1: World AIDS Day #WAD2022
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPWD
December 4: National Cookie Day #NationalCookieDay
December 5: World Soil Day #WorldSoilDay
December 6: Microwave Oven Day #MicrowaveOvenDay
December 8: Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day #PretendToBeATimeTravelerDay
December 10: Human Rights Day #HumanRightsDay and Nobel Prize Day #NobelPrizeDay and National Salesperson Day #SalespersonDay
December 11: International Mountain Day #InternationalMountainDay
December 21: Crossword Puzzle Day #CrosswordPuzzleDay
December 27: No Interruptions Day #NoInterruptionsDay