Social Media Holidays for Your 2025 Content Calendar

TL;DR: Social Media Holidays 2025

Looking for inspiration for your social media content calendar? Social media holidays give you ready-made opportunities to engage your audience, boost reach, and drive brand awareness. From National Pizza Day to World Mental Health Day, these days let you connect around topics that matter — whether it’s food, wellness, culture, or fun.

January 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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

Mix holidays into your social media strategy 

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