Key social media dates for 2025

It seems as though the internet is celebrating a holiday almost every day. Whether it’s Pizza Day, Star Wars Day, or National Dog Day, there’s always something going on to help you connect with audiences.

How you use them and which you choose to include in your social media marketing plan will vary depending on your brand and your audience. Remember, the goal is to surprise and delight, and sometimes, the weird and wonderful is what it takes to engage customers and stop the scroll. Of course, you know we love a cross-channel approach, and social media and email marketing can really help each other out.

We’ve compiled a list of key social media dates for 2025. This list is extensive, it’s not exhaustive. With so many more holidays popping up all the time, there are sure to be some we’ve missed. But this list is designed to help inspire some new campaigns and help you plan unique ways to engage your customers.

January 2025

Themes for the month

Dry January #DryJanuary

National Mentoring Month #MentoringAmplifies

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

January hashtag calendar

January 1 – New Year’s Day #NewYearsDay

January 2 – National Motivation and Inspiration Day #MotivationandInspirationDay

January 2 – Science Fiction Day #ScienceFictionDay

January 2 – World Introvert Day #WorldIntrovertDay

January 3 – Festival of Sleep Day #FestivalOfSleepDay

January 4 – National Spaghetti Day #NationalSpaghettiDay

January 5 – Bird Day #BirdDay

January 6 – National Shortbread Day #NationalShortbreadDay

January 6 – Epiphany #Epiphany 

January 6 – The Golden Globe Awards #GoldenGlobes 

January 8 – Bubble Bath Day #BubbleBathDay

January 11 – Human Trafficking Awareness Day #HumanTraffickingAwarenessDay

January 11 – National Vision Board Day #VisionBoardDay

January 13 – Clean Off Your Desk Day #CleanOffYourDeskDay

January 13 – National Sticker Day #NationalStickerDay

January 13 – Make Your Dreams Come True Day #DreamsComeTrue

January 14 – Organize Your Home Day #OrganizeYourHomeDay

January 14 – Dress Up Your Pet Day #DressUpYourPetDay

January 15 – National Hat Day #NationalHatDay

January 16 – National Nothing Day #NationalNothingDay

January 16 – Get To Know Your Customers Day #Customers

January 18 – Winnie The Pooh Day #WinnieThePoohDay

January 19 – Popcorn Day #PopcornDay

January 20 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day #MLKDay

January 20 – Penguin Awareness Day #PenguinAwarenessDay

January 23 – National Pie Day #PieDay

January 21 – National Hugging Day #NationalHuggingDay

January 23 – National Pie Day #NationalPieDay

January 24 – National Compliment Day #NationalComplimentDay

January 25 – Opposite Day #OppositeDay

January 27 – Chocolate Cake Day #ChocolateCakeDay

January 28 – Data Privacy Day #DataPrivacyDay

January 30 – Croissant Day #CroissantDay

January 31 – Backwards Day #BackwardsDay

January 31 – Hot Chocolate Day #HotChocolateDay

February 2025

Themes for the month

National Black History Month (USA)

LGBT+ History Month (UK)

Friendship Month

Ramadan: February 18, 2025 – March 30, 2025

February hashtag calendar

February 1 – Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day #IceCream

February 2 – Groundhog Day #GroundhogDay

February 2 – World Wetlands Day #WorldWetlandsDay

February 2 – The Grammy Awards #Grammys2025

February 3 – Golden Retriever Day #GoldenRetrieverDay

February 4 – World Cancer Day #WorldCancerDay #WeCanICan

February 6 – Frozen Yoghurt Day #FrozenYoghurtDay

February 6 – New York Fashion Week begins #NYFW

February 7 – National Send a Card to a Friend Day #SendACardToAFriendDay

February 7 – National Bubble Gum Day #BubbleGumDay

February 7 – National Wear Red Day #WearRed

February 8 – National Boy Scouts Day #BoyScoutsDay

February 9 – Super Bowl LIX #SuperBowl2025

February 9 – National Pizza Day #PizzaDay

February 11 – Safer Internet Day #SaferInternetDay

February 13 – Self-Love Day #SelfLoveDay

February 13 – Galentine’s Day #GalentinesDay

February 14 – Valentine’s Day #ValentinesDay

February 15 – Singles Awareness Day #SinglesAwarenessDay

February 17 – Presidents Day #PresidentsDay

February 17 – Random Acts of Kindness Day #RandomActsOfKindnessDay

February 20 – London Fashion Week begins #LFW

February 20 – Love Your Pet Day #LoveYourPetDay

February 24 – London Fashion Week ends #LFW

February 27 – Toast Day #ToastDay

February 28 – Ramadan begins #Ramadan

February 28 – Rare Disease Day #RareDiseaseDay

February 29 – Chinese New Year #YearOfTheSnake

March 2025

Themes for the month

Women’s History Month

American Red Cross Month

March hashtag calendar

March 1 – Peanut Butter Lover’s Day #PeanutButterLoversDay

March 2 – Dr. Suess Day #DrSuessDay

March 3 – World Wildlife Day #WorldWildlifeDay

March 3– The Academy Awards #Oscars2025

March 4 – Mardi Gras #MardiGras

March 4 – Shrove Tuesday #PancakeDay

March 6 – World Book Day and Copyright Day #BookDay

March 7 – Employee Appreciation Day #EmployeeAppreciationDay

March 7 – Cereal Day #CerealDay

March 8 – International Women’s Day #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 #EachforEqual

March 9 – Meatball Day #MeatballDay

March 10 – International Day of Awesomeness #IDOA

March 10 – National Napping Day #NationalNappingDay

March 11 – Organize Your Home Office Day #OrganizeYourHomeOfficeDay

March 12 – National Girl Scout Day #GirlScoutDay

March 14 – Potato Chip Day #NationalPotatoChipDay

March 14 – World Sleep Day #WorldSleepDay

March 16 – Panda Day #PandaDay

March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day #StPatricksDay

March 18 – Awkward Moments Day #AwkwardMomentsDay

March 19 – National Let’s Laugh Day #NationalLetsLaughDay

March 20 – First Day of Spring #FirstDayofSpring

March 20 – International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayofHappiness

March 20 – World Storytelling Day #WorldStorytellingDay

March 21 – Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day #RacialDiscriminationDay

March 21 – World Poetry Day #WorldPoetryDay

March 22 – Earth Hour Day #EarthHourDay

March 22 – World Water Day #WorldWaterDay #Water2me

March 23 – Puppy Day #PuppyDay

March 25 – Tolkien Reading Day #TolkienReadingDay

March 26 – Good Hair Day #GoodHairDay

March 30 – Ramadan ends #Ramadan

March 30 – Mother’s Day (UK and US) #HappyMothersDay

March 31 – Transgender Day of Visibility #TDOV

March 31 – National Taco Day #NationalTacoDay

April 2025

Themes for the month

Stress Awareness Month

National Poetry Month

April hashtag calendar

April 1 – April Fools Day #AprilFools

April 2 – World Autism Awareness Day #AutismAcceptance

April 3 – Find a Rainbow Day #FindARainbowDay

April 3 – World Party Day #PartyDay

April 4 – Walk To Work Day #WalkToWorkDay

April 7 – World Health Day #LetsTalk

April 9 – Unicorn Day #UnicornDay

April 10 – Siblings Day #SiblingsDay

April 11 – Pet Day #PetDay

April 15 – World Art Day #WASD2025

April 16 – Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day #PJDay

April 17 – Get To Know Your Customers Day #Customers

April 17 – National High-Five Day #NH5D

April 18 – Good Friday #GoodFriday

April 20 – National Lookalike Day #NationalLookalikeDay

April 20 – Easter Sunday #HappyEaster 

April 21 – World Creativity and Innovation Day #Innovate

April 12 – Easter Monday #HappyEaster 

April 22 – Earth Day #EarthDay2025

April 24 – Pigs in a Blanket Day #PigsInBlanketsDay

April 24 – Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day #COUNTONME

April 25 – World Malaria Day #EndMalariaForGood

April 28 – National Superhero Day #SuperheroDay

April 29 – International Dance Day #InternationalDanceDay

April 30 – Adopt a Shelter Pet Day #AdoptAShelterPetDay

May 2025

Themes for the month

National Barbeque Month

Lupus Awareness Month

May hashtag calendar

May 1 – World Password Day #WorldPasswordDay

May 3 – Write a review Day #WriteaReviewDay

May 4 – Star Wars Day #MayThe4thBeWithYou

May 4 – National Lemonade Day #NationalLemonadeDay

May 5 – May Day #MayDay

May 5 – Cinco de Mayo #CincoDeMayo

May 6 – Nurses Day #NursesDay

May 8 – World Donkey Day #DonkeyDay

May 8 – Parents’ Day (Korea) #ParentsDay

May 10 – World Lupus Day #LupusDay

May 11 – Eat What You Want Day #EatWhatYouWantDay

May 12 – Limerick Day #LimerickDay

May 13 – World Cocktail Day #CocktailDay

May 15 – International Day of Families #FamilyDay

May 15 – National Chocolate Chip Day #ChocolateChipDay

May 16 – Love a Tree Day #LoveATreeDay

May 16 – Endangered Species Day #EndangeredSpeciesDay

May 17 – World Baking Day #BakingDay

May 18 – Visit Your Relatives Day #VisitYourRelativesDay

May 18 – Electronic Greeting Card Day #ElectronicGreetingCardDay

May 20 – World Bee Day #BeeDay

May 22 – Sherlock Holmes Day #SherlockHolmesDay

May 24 – National Scavenger Hunt Day #NationalScavengerHuntDay

May 24 – Brother’s Day #BrothersDay

May 25 – Wine Day #WineDay

May 26 – Memorial Day #MemorialDay

May 28 – Hamburger Day #NationalHamburgerDay

May 30 – National Creativity Day #NationalCreativityDay

May 31 – Web Designer Day #WebDesignerDay

May 31 – National Heat Awareness Day #NoFryDay

June 2025

Themes for the month

Pride Month

National Grilling Month

June hashtag calendar

June 1 – National Cancer Survivor’s Day #NCSD2025

June 2 – Rocky Road Day #RockyRoadDay

June 5 – World Environment Day #WorldEnvironmentDay

June 6 – Drive-in Movie Day #DriveInMovieDay

June 6 – Donut Day #DonutDay

June 7 – Chocolate Ice Cream Day #ChocolateIceCreamDay

June 8 – World Oceans Day #WorldOceansDay

June 8 – Best Friends Day #BestFriendsDay

June 11 – Make Life Beautiful Day #MakeLifeBeautiful

June 14 – National Flag Day #FlagDay

June 14 – World Blood Donor Day #GiveBlood

June 15 – Father’s Day (UK and US) #HappyFathersDay

June 16 – Fudge Day #FudgeDay

June 17 – Eat Your Vegetables Day #EatYourVegetablesDay

June 18– National Picnic Day #NationalPicnicDay

June 19 – Martini Day #MartiniDay

June 19 – Juneteenth #Juneteenth

June 20 – World Refugee Day #WorldRefugeeDay

June 20 – Take Your Dog To Work Day #TakeYourDogToWorkDay

June 21 – First Day of Summer #FirstDayOfSummer

June 21 – National Selfie Day #NationalSelfieDay

June 21 – World Music Day #WorldMusicDay

June 21 – International Yoga Day #InternationalYogaDay

June 27 – Sunglasses Day #SunglassesDay

June 30 – Social Media Day #SMDay, #SocialMediaDay

July 2025

Themes for the month

National Ice Cream Month

National Independent Retailer Month

July hashtag calendar

July 1 – Joke Day #JokeDay

July 1 – Canada Day #CanadaDay

July 2 – World UFO Day #WorldUFODay

July 4 – Independence Day #July4th

July 5 – Bikini Day #BikiniDay

July 6 – Fried Chicken Day #FriedChickenDay

July 7 – World Chocolate Day #WorldChocolateDay

July 9 – Fashion Day #FashionDay

July 10 – Pina Colada Day #PinaColadaDay

July 11 – Cheer Up the Lonely Day #CheerUpTheLonelyDay

July 11 – National Mojito Day #MojitoDay

July 11 – French Fries Day #FrenchFriesDay

July 12 – Malala Day #MalalaDay

July 14 – Mac and Cheese Day #MacCheeseDay

July 15 – Give Something Away Day #GiveSomethingAwayDay

July 16 – Guinea Pig Appreciation Day #GuineaPigs

July 17 – World Emoji Day #WorldEmojiDay

July 17 – Get To Know Your Customers Day #Customers

July 18 – Nelson Mandela International Day #MandelaDay

July 20 – Lollipop Day #LollipopDay

July 20 – National Moon Day #NationalMoonDay

July 20 – Ice Cream Day #IceCreamDay

July 21 – Junk Food Day #JunkFoodDay

July 24 – Tequila Day #TequilaDay

July 25 – National Wine and Cheese Day #WineAndCheeseDay 

July 26 – All or Nothing Day #AllOrNothing

July 28 – Milk Chocolate Day #MilkChocolateDay

July 29 – Lipstick Day #LipstickDay

July 30 – International Day of Friendship #DayOfFriendship

July 30 – National Father-in-Law Day #FatherInLawDay

July 31 – Harry Potter’s Birthday #HappyBirthdayHarry

July 31 – National Intern Day #NationalInternDay 

August 2025

Themes for the month

National Immunization Awareness Month

Black Business Month

August hashtag calendar

August 1 – National Girlfriends Day #NationalGirlfriendsDay

August 1 – International Beer Day #BeerDay

August 2 – Coloring Book Day #ColoringBookDay

August 3 – Watermelon Day #WatermelonDay

August 3 – National Sisters Day #SistersDay

August 5 – Blogger Day #BloggerDay

August 8 – International Cat Day #CatDay

August 9 – National Bowling Day #BowlingDay

August 9 – Book Lovers Day #BookLoversDay

August 10 – Lazy Day #LazyDay

August 10 – World Lion Day #WorldLionDay

August 11 – Sons and Daughters Day #SonsAndDaughtersDay

August 12 – World Elephant Day #WorldElephantDay

August 13 – International Lefthanders Day #LefthandersDay

August 15 – Relaxation Day #RelaxationDay

August 16 – Tell a Joke Day #TellAJokeDay

August 18 – National Fajita Day #NationalFajitaDay

August 18 – Never Give Up Day #NeverGiveUp

August 19 – World Photo Day #WorldPhotoDay

August 19 – World Humanitarian Day #WorldHumanitarianDay

August 22 – World Plant Milk Day #WorldPlantMilkDay 

August 23 – Sponge Cake Day #SpongeCakeDay

August 25 – Banana Split Day #BananaSplitDay

August 25 – US Open Starts #USOpen

August 26 – Women’s Equality Day #WomensEqualityDay

August 26 – International Dog Day #InternationalDogDay

August 27 – World Rock Paper Scissors Day #RockPaperScissor

August 29 – Chop Suey Day #ChopSuey

August 30 – National Beach Day #NationalBeachDay 

August 31 – Eat Outside Day  #EatOutsideDay

September 2025

Themes for the month

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Suicide Prevention Month

Back to School

September hashtag calendar

September 1 – Labor Day #LaborDay

September 2 – World Coconut Day #WorldCoconutDay

September 4 – Eat An Extra Dessert Day #EatAnExtraDessert

September 5 – International Day of Charity #CharityDay

September 5 – Non-Profit Day #NonProfitDay

September 6 – Read a Book Day #ReadABookDay

September 7 – Superhuman Day #SuperhumanDay

September 7 – US Open Ends #USOpen

September 8 – International Literacy Day #LiteracyDay

September 11  – Patriot Day (US) #PatriotDay

September 13 – Positive Thinking Day #PositiveThinkingDay

September 15 – Greenpeace Day #GreenpeaceDay

September 19 – Talk Like a Pirate Day #TalkLikeAPirateDay

September 20 – Oktoberfest Starts #Oktoberfest 

September 21 – International Day of Peace #PeaceDay

September 21 – Miniature Golf Day #MiniGolfDay

September 21 – World Alzheimer’s Day #AlzheimersDay

September 22 – Car-Free Day #CarFreeDay

September 22 – Hobbit Day #LordOfTheRings

September 22 – National Ice Cream Cone Day #NationalIceCreamConeDay

September 22 – First Day of Fall #1stDayOfFall

September 24 – National Punctuation Day #NationalPunctuationDay

September 26 – European Day of Languages #EDL2025

September 27 – World Tourism Day #WTD2025

September 27 – International Rabbit Day #InternationalRabbitDay

September 28 – Good Neighbor Day #GoodNeighborDay

September 29 – World Heart Day #HeartDay

September 30 – Love People Day #NationalLovePeopleDay

September 30 – International Podcast Day #InternationalPodcastDay

October 2025

Themes for the month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Global Diversity Awareness Month

National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Black History Month (UK)

October hashtag calendar

October 1 – World Vegetarian Day #WorldVegetarianDay

October 1 – International Coffee Day #CoffeeDay

October 2 – Name Your Car Day #NameYourCarDay

October 2 – National Brow Day #NationalBrowDay

October 4 – World Animal Day #WorldAnimalDay

October 5 – Oktoberfest Ends #Oktoberfest 

October 5 – World Teachers Day #WorldTeachersDay

October 5 – Grandparents Day #GrandparentsDay

October 6 – Noodle Day #NoodleDay

October 9 – World Sight Day #WorldSightDay

October 10 – World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHeathDay

October 10 – World Egg Day #WorldEggDay

October 11 – International Day of the Girl #DayOfTheGirl

October 13 – Train Your Brain Day #TrainYourBrainDay

October 15 – National Health Savings Account (HSA) Awareness Day #HSADay

October 15 – Global Handwashing Day #GlobalHandwashingDay

October 16 – World Food Day #FoodDay

October 16 – Get To Know Your Customers Day #Customers

October 17 – Spreadsheet Day #Spreadsheets

October 18 – World Menopause Day #WorldMenopauseDay

October 19 – Evaluate Your Life Day #EvaluateYourLife

October 20 – Diwali #Diwali 

October 21 – Reptile Awareness Day #ReptileAwarenessDay

October 24 – United Nations Day #UNDay

October 25 – Greasy Foods Day #GreasyFoodsDay

October 25 – Make a Difference Day #MDDAY

October 26 – Pumpkin Day #PumpkinDay

October 30 – Checklist Day #ChecklistDay

October 31 – Halloween #Halloween

November 2025

Themes for the month

Men’s Health Awareness Month #Movember

Epilepsy Awareness Month

National STEM Week March 14, 2025 – March 23, 2025

November hashtag calendar

November 1 – World Vegan Day #WorldVeganDay

November 1 – National Cook For Your Pet’s Day #NationalCookForYourPetsDay

November 1 – National Author’s Day #NationalAuthorDay

November 3 – Sandwich Day #SandwichDay

November 4 – Candy Day #CandyDay

November 4 – Use Your Common Sense Day #CommonSense

November 5 – International Stress Awareness Day #StressAwarenessDay

November 5 – Guy Fawkes Night (UK) #GuyFawkesNight

November 8 – Cappuccino Day #CappuccinoDay

November 9 – World Freedom Day #FreedomDay

November 9 – Tongue Twister Day #TongueTwisterDay

November 11 – Veterans Day #VeteransDay

November 11 – Singles Day #SinglesDay

November 11 – Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day #CleanOutYourRefrigeratorDay

November 12 – Happy Hour Day #HappyHourDay

November 12 – National Pizza Day #NationalPizzaDay

November 13 – World Kindness Day #WKD

November 14 – World Diabetes Day #WDD

November 15 – America Recycles Day #AmericaRecyclesDay

November 16 – International Day for Tolerance #ToleranceDay

November 16 – Fast Food Day #FastFoodDay

November 17 – International Students Day #InternationalStudentsDay

November 18 – Mickey Mouse’s Birthday #MickeyMouse

November 19 – International Men’s Day #InternationalMensDay

November 19 – Women’s Entrepreneurship Day #WomensEntrepreneurshipDay

November 20 – Transgender Day of Remembrance  #TransgenderDayofRemembrance 

November 21 – World Hello Day #WorldHelloDay

November 23 – Espresso Day #EspressoDay

November 26 – National Cake Day #NationalCakeDay

November 27 – Thanksgiving Day #Thanksgiving

November 28 – French Toast Day #FrenchToastDay

November 28 – Black Friday #BlackFriday2025

November 28 – National Day of Listening #NationalDayOfListening

November 29 – Small Business Saturday #SmallBusinessSaturday

November 29 – National Lemon Cream Pie Day  #NationalLemonCreamPieDay 

November 30 – Computer Security Day #ComputerSecurityDay

December 2025

Themes for the month

Hanukkah: December 14, 2025 – December 22, 2025 

Christmas: December 24, 2025 – December 26, 2025 

Kwanzaa: December 26, 2025  – January 1, 2025 #NguzoSaba

December hashtag calendar

December 1 – World AIDS Day #WAD2025

December 1  – Cyber Monday #CyberMonday

December 2 – Giving Tuesday #GivingTuesday

December 3 – Make A Gift Day #MakeAGiftDay

December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPwD

December 4 – Cookie Day #CookieDay

December 5 – International Ninja Day #DayOfTheNinja

December 5 – World Soil Day #WorldSoilDay

December 6 – Saint Nicholas Day #SaintNicholasDay 

December 7 – Cotton Candy Day #CottonCandyDay

December 8 – National Brownie Day #NationalBrownieDay

December 8 – Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day #PretendToBeATimeTravelerDay

December 8 – Brownie Day #BrownieDay

December 9 – Christmas Card Day #ChristmasCardDay

December 10 – Human Rights Day #HumanRightsDay

December 11 – International Mountain Day #InternationalMountainDay

December 13 – Gingerbread House Day #GingerbreadHouseDay

December 14 – Monkey Day #MonkeyDay

December 15 – 10 Days to Christmas #10DaysToGo

December 17 – National Maple Syrup Day #NationalMapleSyrupDay 

December 18 – Bake Cookies Day #BakeCookiesDay

December 19 – Ugly Christmas Sweater Day #UglyChristmasSweaterDay

December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day #CrosswordPuzzleDay

December 21 – First Day of Winter #WinterSolstice

December 24 – Christmas Eve #ChristmasEve

December 25 – Christmas Day #MerryChristmas

December 31 – New Year’s Eve #NYE2025

Let’s wrap up

Make sure you never miss an opportunity to connect with your audience and create content that drives engagement by planning your social media strategy well in advance. Use this comprehensive list of key social media dates for 2025 as a reference and schedule your content around these special events to see your brand’s engagement soar throughout the year.