There’s nothing like a shiny new yr of prospects to encourage content material creation — and a wide-open social media calendar to go along with it.
Now, don’t let all these open slots intimidate you. An effective way to kickstart your 2024 content material batch is to notice down all of the yr’s essential official (and goofy, unofficial) holidays. Even when you slot them into your social calendar as a placeholder, you’re heading in the right direction for now.
Doing so is crucial for 2 causes:
- It’s an effective way to encourage contemporary social media content material concepts and enjoyable or significant methods to attach along with your target market.
- You’ll concentrate on occasions which will imply much less energetic time on-line on your viewers, just like the summer time holidays or Thanksgiving within the U.S. (The very last thing you wish to do is neglect a nationwide vacation and have your essential launch announcement exit then — and fall flat.)
This record is fairly complete for people with a U.S. or world viewers, but when your goal market is predicated in a selected nation or area, I’d suggest supplementing this record with native nationwide holidays, too.
On all of the enjoyable, foolish “nationwide” days: most of those will not be government-official holidays — lots of them are leftover from intelligent advertising and marketing campaigns of years passed by — and the nationwide typically refers back to the U.S. market. Nonetheless, if there’s one which particularly applies to your area of interest as a creator or model, it might be price tapping into!
Once more, this record is complete however not exhaustive. Should you don’t spot one on this record that ties into your area of interest, it’s additionally price doing some research right here. There are literally thousands of these enjoyable nationwide celebrations on the market — there’s nearly actually the proper one for you, too.
Beneath is the record of all of the dates to bookmark in your social media calendar for 2024 (plus some further context and concepts on a number of for every month).
January 2024
January month-to-month themes + occasions
- Dry January
- Nationwide Mentoring Month
- Nationwide Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
- Paris Trend Week (16 January – 21 January)
January 1: New Yr’s Day
January 7: Golden Globe Awards
Awards season 2024 has already kicked off with the Golden Globe Awards, and — if it is sensible on your model to faucet into popular culture traits — it’s price being attentive to.
With out fail, awards season will set off a tidal wave of memes, GIFs, hashtags, and inside jokes that provide an effective way to attach along with your viewers. Whether or not it’s hopping on a meme-worthy second like Dunkin’ Donuts did with Ben Affleck’s seemingly tiresome Grammy’s expertise or a delicate nod to the pink carpet like Fenty Magnificence in 2023, the entire main awards reveals are price following (on social that’s).
we will likely be there for him within the morning, that’s for certain🫶
— Dunkin’ (@dunkindonuts) February 6, 2023
Should you missed the boat for the Globes, concern not — the Grammys, Emmys, BAFTAs, SAGs, Oscars, and Canne’s Movie Competition are nonetheless to return.
January 8: Clear Off Your Desk Day
January 11: Human Trafficking Consciousness Day
January 14: Costume Up Your Pet Day
January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (U.S.)
January 15: Emmys ceremony (rescheduled from September 2023)
January 16: Paris Trend Week begins
January 17: Buyer Service Day
January 18: Get to Know Your Clients Day
January 19: Nationwide Popcorn Day
January 20: Nationwide Cheese Lover’s Day
January 21: Nationwide Hugging Day
January 23: Nationwide Pie Day
January 24: Nationwide Praise Day
January 27: Worldwide Chocolate Cake Day
January 29: Nationwide Puzzle Day
January 31: Grammy Awards
February 2024
February month-to-month themes + occasions
- Nationwide Black Historical past Month (USA)
- LGBT+ Historical past Month (UK)
- New York Trend Week (February 9 – 14)
- London Trend Week (February 16 – 20)
- Milan Trend Week (February 20 – 26)
February 2: Groundhog Day
February 4: World Most cancers Day
February 4: Grammy Awards ceremony
February 9: New York Trend Week begins
February 9: Nationwide Pizza Day
February 10: Chinese language New Yr
February 11: Tremendous Bowl LVIII
Whether or not or not your viewers is predicated within the U.S. or loves American soccer, Tremendous Bowl Sunday is one other annual occasion to regulate for social media traits.
Like awards season, the Tremendous Bowl will dominate socials within the U.S. and plenty of different nations — unsurprising, with a record-breaking 113.06 million views within the States and an extra 56 million in the remainder of the world. The legendary half-time efficiency’s mixed star and model energy might have one thing to do with this. In recent times, celebrities like Rihanna, Beyonce, Madonna, Prince, and extra have graced the stage.
If that doesn’t persuade you… Taylor Swift could be within the field this yr.
February 13: Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)
February 14: Valentine’s Day
February 16: London Trend Week begins
February 17: Random Act of Kindness Day
February 18: BAFTA (British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts) Awards ceremony
February 18: Nationwide Drink Wine Day
February 19: Presidents’ Day
February 20: Milan Trend Week begins
February 24: SAG (Display Actors Guild) Awards ceremony
February 28: Nationwide Pancake Day
February 29: Leap Yr Day
February twenty ninth? Nope, I didn’t make a mistake — 2024 is a intercalary year, which implies it’s three hundred and sixty six days lengthy. This phenomenon happens roughly each 4 years to account for the ‘further’ time it takes for the Earth to revolve across the solar (one year, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, or 365.2422 days, in keeping with NASA) in order that our seasons don’t fall out of sync with the calendar.
There’ll undoubtedly be some intelligent methods to mark this uncommon day on social media — you can want all of the seemingly ageless ‘leaplings’ (these born on February 29) their first actual pleased birthday in 4 years, provide a one-day-only sale, or give you inventive methods on your followers to profit from their ‘further’ day.
March 2024
March month-to-month themes + occasions
- Ladies’s Historical past Month
- American Purple Cross Month
- Ramadan: March 10 – April 9
March 1: Nationwide Day of Unplugging
March 2: Learn Throughout America Day
March 4: Nationwide GramMarch Day
March 8: Worldwide Ladies’s Day
Yearly, Worldwide Ladies’s Day — a worldwide day celebrating girls’s social, financial, cultural, and political achievements — has a selected theme. In 2024, it’s #InspireInclusion. The purpose is “to collectively forge a extra inclusive world for ladies,” in keeping with the IWD website.
“After we encourage others to grasp and worth girls’s inclusion, we forge a greater world. And when girls themselves are impressed to be included, there is a sense of belonging, relevance, and empowerment.”
The location is a superb useful resource for concepts on celebrating this essential worldwide day, from selling girls and ladies’ inventive and creative expertise, to supporting girls and ladies in management. Control the IWD Instagram, LinkedIn, and X accounts for inspiration — they amplify others who’ve already launched their #InspireInclusion and #IWD2024 campaigns.
March 9: World Kidney Day
March 10: Mom’s Day (U.Ok.)
March 10: The Academy Awards
March 11: Nationwide Napping Day
March 13: Nationwide K9 Veterans Day
March 15: World Client Rights Day
March 16: Freedom of Info Day
March 17: St. Patrick’s Day
March 19: Nationwide Let’s Chuckle Day
March 20: Worldwide Day of Happiness
March 21: World Poetry Day
March 22: World Water Day
March 23: Earth Hour
This worldwide motion organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) calls on houses and companies to show off non-essential lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (native time) to represent dedication to the earth.
“By doing so, this hour can shine an unmissable world highlight on nature loss and local weather change and the necessity to work collectively to safe a brighter future for individuals and the planet,” the group says.
It’s a strong, unifying occasion and a chance for creators and types to showcase their model values by going above and past the one-hour blackout. Right here’s an instance by Starbucks India, who spotlighted their local weather initiatives on the day in 2020, and Pizza Hut Hong Kong, who “went darkish” on social media to mark the event in 2022.
March 23: Nationwide Pet Day
March 24: Nationwide Cocktail Day
March 25: Worldwide Waffle Day
That is one enjoyable day that goes past a intelligent advertising and marketing marketing campaign — Waffle Day really stems from the Feast of the Annunciation or Our Woman’s Day, a day within the Christian faith that celebrates the go to of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.
The non secular celebration developed into what is called Waffle Day in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as a result of the Swedish Vårfrudagen (Our Woman’s Day) sounds quite a bit like våffeldagen (waffle day). Over time, Swedes started calling it Waffle Day and celebrating by consuming waffles.
The event is now marked globally (largely by waffle restaurant chains), although the U.S. celebrates its Nationwide Waffle Day to commemorate the date of a U.S. patent on a waffle iron on August 24.
March 27: World Theatre Day
March 29: Good Friday
March 30: Medical doctors’ Day
March 31: Easter
April 2024
April month-to-month themes + occasions
- Stress Consciousness Month
- Nationwide Poetry Month
April 1: April Fools’ Day
That is your signal to not consider all the things (or something…) you learn on-line in the present day. This vacation is usually marked by manufacturers with tongue-in-cheek campaigns, however I’d argue it may be considerably tiresome. Should you’re going to lean into it, remember to put some actual thought into your pranks.
Some headline-grabbing examples from 2023 embrace Tic tac and Nutella’s Nutella-flavored mints formed like tiny jars of chocolate unfold, McDonald’s McNugget Boots, and Tinder’s press launch saying a ban on all images of males holding fish.
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— McDonald’s UK (@McDonaldsUK) April 1, 2023
April 2: Worldwide Truth-Checking Day
April 3: Unbiased Artist Day
April 4: Nationwide Burrito Day
April 6: Nationwide Worker Advantages Day
April 7: World Well being Day
April 8: Nationwide Empanada Day
April 10: Nationwide Siblings Day
April 11: Nationwide Pet Day
April 13: Worldwide Plant Appreciation Day
April 18: Nationwide Train Day
April 21: World Creativity and Innovation Day
April 22: Earth Day
April 23: World Guide Day
Could 2024
Could month-to-month themes + occasions
- Nationwide Barbeque Month
- Lupus Consciousness Month
- Cannes Movie Competition (Could 14 – 25)
Could 1: Could Day
Could 2: Child Day
Could 3: Write a Overview Day
Could 4: Firefighters’ Memorial Day
Could 4: Star Wars Day
“Could the fourth be with you” — a play on the Star Wars catchphrase, “Could the power be with you,” spawned an empire of horrible puns. Tacky although it could be, it’s an effective way to faucet into the ability of a universe far, distant and join with a fandom that spans generations.
Manufacturers with Star Wars-themed merch (of which there are many — assume Lego, Construct-a-Bear, Fossil, Monopoly, and extra) typically mark the event with particular gross sales and affords.
Could 5: Cinco de Mayo
Could 6: Worldwide No Food regimen Day
Could 7: Nationwide Lecturers’ Day
Could 9: Europe Day
Could 12: Mom’s Day
Many nations (together with the U.S., Canada, many of the E.U., Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, the Philippines, and South Africa) have a good time Mom’s Day on the second Sunday in Could (Could twelfth in 2024). Nonetheless, it’s price noting that Mom’s Day is widely known on completely different days in several areas. Take into account this when you’re speaking to a worldwide viewers — notably if parenting, motherhood, or an analogous theme is certainly one of your content material pillars.
There’s a helpful full record of Mom’s Day dates world wide right here, do you have to want them.
Could 14: Cannes Movie Competition kicks off
Could 16: Drawing Day
Could 17: Endangered Species Day
Could 18: World AIDS Vaccine Day
Could 19: Plant One thing Day
Could 20: World Bee Day
Could 21: Nationwide Memo Day
Could 23: Vesak
Vesak, Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, or Buddha Day, is an important Buddhist pageant of the yr. It’s celebrated in lots of Asian nations and nationals overseas, the place many will spend the day and even the evening at their native temple. It’s additionally a time for doing good deeds, meditation and reflection, and sharing meals and choices.
Could 24: Nationwide Scavenger Hunt Day
Could 25: Nationwide Wine Day
Could 28: Nationwide Hamburger Day
Could 30: Nationwide Creativity Day
Could 31: World No-Tobacco Day
June 2024
June month-to-month themes + occasions
- Pleasure Month
- Males’s Well being Schooling and Consciousness Month
- U.S., Europe, and U.Ok. summer time holidays (early June – finish July — varies in keeping with area)
- UEFA European Soccer Championship, aka Euro 2024 (June 14 – July 14)
June 1: Summer time holidays
Colleges in lots of elements of the Northern Hemisphere are closed for an prolonged summer time break from June till late July or August. This implies dad and mom will take the chance to get pleasure from day off with their youngsters, and people with out youngsters will benefit from the hotter climate and be on-line a bit much less.
It’s price noting this time in your content material calendar as it may be a quieter time on-line — it’s most likely not the perfect interval for essential launches and occasions in case your target market is in these areas.
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June 1: International Day of Dad and mom
June 2: American Indian Citizenship Day
June 3: Love Conquers All Day
June 4: Nationwide Cheese Day
June 5: World Surroundings Day
June 7: Nationwide Donut Day
June 8: World Oceans Day
June 14: Flag Day
June 14: Euro 2024 kick-off
June 14: Blood Donor Day
June 16: Father’s Day
Like Mom’s Day, many will have a good time Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June (June sixteenth in 2024), however there are areas during which this differs. For instance, Australia and New Zealand will mark the event on the primary Sunday in September (the first in 2024), Brazil on the second Sunday of August (the eleventh this yr), and Thailand on December 5 (the birthday of the late king).
June 18: Worldwide Sushi Day
June 19: Juneteenth
Juneteenth Nationwide Independence Day, often generally known as Juneteenth, is a vacation in the USA to mark the top of slavery on the anniversary of the ultimate enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas in 1865, throughout which over 250,000 enslaved Black individuals had been declared free. The day was declared a federal vacation in 2021.
It’s essential to notice that Juneteenth — like many different essential dates on this record — shouldn’t be seen as a advertising and marketing alternative to use. Disinegnuos manufacturers have been known as out for not working towards what they preach for celebrating the vacation of their advertising and marketing supplies whereas having no insurance policies and practices that assist Black staff internally or the Black neighborhood extra broadly.
“It’s a vacation that marks the top of 200+ years of slavery, bondage, and abuse of African People,” multicultural advertising and marketing professional Lizette Williams identified in an interview with Forbes in 2022. “It’s a celebration of resilience — not a advertising and marketing second, fastidiously crafted social media put up, or newest African American-targeted innovation drop.”
Fairly than a performative advertising and marketing marketing campaign, Williams suggests diverting these sources. “Assist Black-owned companies or organizations similar to Black Ladies Code, Loveland Basis, and others to assist in the continual battle for racial justice, equality, and fairness,” she recommended.
June 21: Worldwide Yoga Day
In 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recommended that June twenty first be celebrated as Worldwide Yoga Day in his United Nations Tackle. It obtained a record-breaking 175 nations becoming a member of as co-sponsors and was applied lower than three months later. Since then, the traditional religious observe, which the UN agreed “offers a holistic strategy to well being and well-being,” has been celebrated worldwide.
This worldwide day is a flexible one and might be included in your social media plan whether or not your model is health-oriented or not. Carmesa marked the event with a tongue-in-cheek meme in 2022, and Google India indulged in a “large stretch.”
June 21: World Day of Music
June 22: Constructive Media Day
June 23: Worldwide Olympic Day
June 24: Worldwide Fairy Day
June 25: International Beatles Day
June 27: Nationwide Sun shades Day
June 28: Nationwide SAFER Office Day
June 29: St Peters Day
June 30: Worldwide Asteroid Day
July 2024
July month-to-month themes + occasions
- 2024 Summer time Olympics (Jul 26 – August 11)
- Nationwide Ice Cream Month
- Nationwide Grilling Month
July 1: Worldwide Joke Day
July 2: World UFO Day
July 3: Nationwide Keep Out of the Solar Day
July 4: Independence Day (US)
July 6: Worldwide Kissing Day
July 7: World Chocolate Day
July 8: Be a Child Once more Day
July 9: Trend Day
July 10: Nationwide Kitten Day
July 11: World Inhabitants Day
July 12: Nationwide French Fry Day
July 13: Embrace Your Geekness Day
July 14: Euro 2024 remaining
July 15: Nationwide Give One thing Away Day
July 17: World Emoji Day
July 18: Nelson Mandela Day
Nelson Mandela commemorates the birthday of South African freedom fighter and former president Nelson Mandela. The celebration, formally declared by the United Nations in 2009, is a name to motion to encourage volunteering and neighborhood service to honor Mandela’s legacy, particularly for 67 minutes (a nod to his 67 years of public service).
The day affords one other alternative for manufacturers and creators to place a stake within the floor when it comes to model values and do one thing significant for his or her neighborhood.
July 20: Worldwide Chess Day
July 21: Nationwide Junk Meals Day
July 23: Worldwide Self-care Day
July 26: Summer time Olympics kicks off in Paris
There’s nothing like a world sporting occasion to attach throughout borders — the Olympics is inspiring in that it affords a shot at glory for over 10,000 athletes from 206 Nationwide Olympic Committees (mainly, competing nations) collaborating.
In case your model is native, the virtually three-week occasion will present loads of alternatives for utilizing your platforms to assist your home-grown athletes. You’ll discover the full calendar of the 329 (!) occasions and a searchable database of competing athletes right here. Get to know their backgrounds and comply with their social accounts! Assist might additionally imply amplifying their content material or a easy good want within the feedback.
July 28: World Nature Conservation Day
July 29: Worldwide Tiger Day
July 30: Worldwide Day of Friendship
August 2024
August month-to-month themes + occasions
- Summer time Paralympics (August 28 – September 8)
- Nationwide Immunization Consciousness Month
- Black Enterprise Month
August 1: Nationwide Respect For Dad and mom Day
August 2: Nationwide Coloring Guide Day
August 8: Worldwide Cat Day
August 9: Nationwide Guide Lovers Day
August 10: Nationwide Lazy Day
August 11: Summer time Olympics ends
August 12: Worldwide Youth Day/ World Elephant Day
August 13: Lefthanders Day
Solely 12 p.c of individuals are left-handed — and in a predominantly right-handed world, they face a distinctive set of frustrations of their day by day lives (have you ever ever tried to make use of a pair of left-handed scissors as a right-handed particular person? Then you could have an inkling.)
Manufacturers like Oreo have capitalized on this with limited-edition left-handed Oreo cookies in 2018, and Longhorn Steakhouse created a sequence of GIFs to counter the shocking lack of GIFs that includes lefties (which garnered an astonishing 23 million Giphy views) in 2019.
August 15: Nationwide Rest Day
August 16: Nationwide Inform A Joke Day
August 17: World Honey Bee Day
August 19: World Humanitarian Day
August 24: Nationwide Waffle Day (U.S.)
August 26: Nationwide Canine Day
August 28: Summer time Paralympics kicks off in Paris
September 2024
September month-to-month themes + occasions
- Childhood Most cancers Consciousness Month
- Suicide Prevention Month
- Friendship Month
- Again to Faculty (U.S. and Europe)
September 1: Again to Hogwarts Day
Take it from this millennial — in case your target market options individuals on this era, there’s an opportunity this celebration of the Harry Potter franchise will resonate. Each September 1st — the day the Hogwarts Categorical departs Platform 9 ¾ from King’s Cross Station for the magical college within the e book and film sequence — nostalgic followers mark Again to Hogwarts Day.
Most have a good time by re-reading the books or watching the flicks, however 1000’s converge on the actual King’s Cross station in London to cheer (or increase their wands) when the prepare “departs” at 11 a.m (the place employees obliges by together with the fictional prepare on the departures board). Yearly, #backtohogwarts traits throughout social platforms.
September 4: Nationwide Wildlife Day
September 5: Worldwide Day of Charity
September 8: Worldwide Literacy Day
September 8: Summer time Paralympics ends
September 10: Grandparents Day
September 12: Nationwide Video Recreation Day
September 19: Speak Like a Pirate Day
One of many weirder ones on the social media calendar, Speak Like a Pirate Day, was born within the 90s from an inside joke between two associates, John Baur and Mark Summers. The day gained traction after being featured in a Miami Herald column in 2002.
The occasion struck a chord and has since been the springboard for Fb, Reddit, and Google campaigns. Even Apple’s voice assistant Siri has gotten in on the motion.
September 21 Worldwide Day of Peace
September 26: Nationwide Pancake Day
September 27: World Tourism Day
September 28: Nationwide Neighbor Day
September 30: Worldwide Podcast Day
October 2024
October month-to-month themes + occasions
- Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month
- Home Violence Consciousness Month
- International Range Consciousness Month
- Nationwide Bullying Prevention Consciousness Month
- Nationwide Cyber Safety Consciousness Month
- Black Historical past Month (UK)
October 1: Worldwide Espresso Day
October 2: Worldwide Day of Nonviolence
October 4: World Animal Day
October 4: World Smile Day
October 5: World Lecturers Day
October 10: World Psychological Well being Day
First celebrated in 1992, the purpose of World Psychological Well being Day is to “increase consciousness of psychological well being points world wide and to mobilize efforts in assist of psychological well being,” the World Well being Group says on its website.
Creators will mark the event to share their private psychological well being tales, whereas manufacturers take October 10 as a chance to showcase their dedication to the well being of their staff and clients. Right here’s how we shared the latter at Buffer in 2023 on Instagram and LinkedIn:
October 11: Worldwide Day of the Woman
October 14: Thanksgiving (Canada)
October 14: Nationwide Dessert Day
October 15: International Handwashing Day
October 16: Nationwide Boss’s Day
October 20: World Statistics Day
October 24: United Nations Day
October 31: Halloween
November 2024
November month-to-month themes + occasions
- Males’s Well being Consciousness Month (Movember)
- Epilepsy Consciousness Month
November 1: World Vegan Day
November 3: Nationwide Sandwich Day
November 4: Nationwide Sweet Day
November 5: U.S. Normal Presidential Election
November 7: Nationwide Most cancers Consciousness
November 11: Veterans Day
November 13: World Kindness Day
November 14: Worldwide Day For Tolerance
November 20: Common Kids’s Day
November 25: Nationwide Entrepreneur’s Day
November 26: Nationwide Cake Day
November 28: Thanksgiving (U.S.)
People have a good time Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November. It’s a time for feasting, spending time with household and associates, and — most significantly, when you’re managing a social media calendar — away from their units.
Very like the summer time holidays, this era is a quieter time on-line, so anticipate your social content material efficiency to dip and keep away from any main launches. (Word that Thanksgiving in Canada is widely known in October.)
November 29: Black Friday
The phenomenon that’s Black Friday has quick change into a worldwide occasion, with each model below the solar providing some form of particular deal. With all that happening, it’s robust to chop via the noise and really attain your clients to allow them to know what further worth you could have for them.
To that finish, it’s price spending a while carving out some stand-out social media posts prematurely. Listed here are 9 genius concepts to steal on your Black Friday advertising and marketing in 2024.
November 30: Small Enterprise Saturday
A well-crafted social media marketing campaign is a small enterprise’s finest buddy. And Small Enterprise Saturday — an annual occasion to encourage clients to assist small companies of their vacation buying — is a chance too good to be handed up.
Because the Black Friday furor subsides, getting content material in entrance of your excellent clients may require some work. Draw inspiration from this rundown of how different small companies made their voices heard on Small Enterprise Saturday on social media in 2023.
December 2024
December month-to-month themes + occasions
- Hanukkah: December 25 – January 2
- Kwanzaa: December 26 – January 2
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 2: Cyber Monday
December 4: Nationwide Cookie Day
December 5: Worldwide Volunteer Day
December 7: Worldwide Civil Aviation Day
December 8: Faux To Be A Time Traveler Day
December 10: Human Rights Day
December 11: Worldwide Mountain Day
December 14: Free Delivery Day
December 18: Worldwide Migrants Day
December 25: Hanukkah
December 25: Christmas Day
December 25: Kwanzaa
December 28: Nationwide Name A Pal Day
December 31: New Yr’s Eve
Are there not-to-be-missed dates which can be vital for a social media calendar? Go away us a remark under, or attain out to @Buffer throughout social channels.
