Here’s a list of important dates, both national and international, for the months of October to December 2024. Is it wrong to slightly smirk seeing that International Podiatry Day falls on the same day as UK Fungus Day? 🤪
We are always surprised at how many days of the year are now allocated as ‘special’ days, for one reason or another. It seems there’s a day for everything and everyone! Here is a comprehensive list of some of the more important dates, but this is by no means 100% complete.
Next quarter: January – March 2025
October
- 01: World Vegetarian Day; International Music Day; National Hair Day; International Coffee Day; International Day of Older Persons; Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins; Black History Month begins
- 02: Rosh Hashanah; International Day of Non-Violence; World Financial Planning Day
- 03: National Boyfriend Day; National Poetry Day
- 04: World Smile Day; World Animal Day; World Space Week; National Vodka Way
- 05: World Teachers’ Day
- 06: World Cerebral Palsy Day; Grandparents’ Day
- 07: World Habitat Day; World Architecture Day
- 08: International Podiatry Day; UK Fungus Day
- 09: World Post Day
- 10: World Sight Day; World Homeless Day; World Porridge Day
- 11: Yom Kippur; International Day of the Girl Child; World Egg Day
- 12: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day; World Arthritis Day
- 13: International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
- 14: World Standards Day
- 15: Global Handwashing Day; International Day of Rural Women
- 16: Sukkot; Global Dignity Day; World Spine Day
- 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty; National Pasta Day
- 18: Anti-Slavery Day
- 19: National Album Day
- 20: World Osteoporosis Day; International Sloth Day; International Chefs Day
- 21: National Reptile Day; National Apple Day; Back to the Future Day; Trafalgar Day
- 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
- 23: Shemini Atzeret
- 24: World Development Information Day; United Nations Day
- 25: International Dwarfism Awareness Day; World Opera Day; International Artist Day; World Pasta Day
- 26: National Pumpkin Day
- 27: National Mentoring Day
- 28: nothing found
- 29: National Cat Day; World Psoriasis Day; World Stroke Day
- 30: Dhanteras
- 31: Samhain; Halloween; World Savings Day
November
- 01: Diwali; All Saints’ Day; Day of the Dead; World Vegan Day; Native American Heritage Month; Movember
- 02: All Souls’ Day
- 03: nothing found
- 04: nothing found
- 05: Bonfire Night; World Tsunami Awareness Day; National Redhead Day
- 06: International Stress Awareness Day
- 07: nothing found
- 08: National Cappuccino Day; World Urbanism Day
- 09: British Pudding Day; World Adoption Day; International Day against Fascism and AntiSemitism
- 10: International Accounting Day; World Science Day for Peace and Development
- 11: Remembrance Day
- 12: nothing found
- 13: World Kindness Day
- 14: World Diabetes Day
- 15: National Philanthropy Day; Kartik Purnima
- 16: International Day for Tolerance
- 17: World Prematurity Day; International Students’ Day
- 18: Global Education Week Begins
- 19: National Play Monopoly Day; International Men’s Day; World Toilet Day
- 20: Universal Children’s Day
- 21: World Hello Day; World Television Day; World Philosophy Day
- 22: nothing found
- 23: National Espresso Day
- 24: nothing found
- 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against women
- 26: nothing found
- 27: nothing found
- 28: Thanksgiving Day USA
- 29: Black Friday; Buy Nothing Day
- 30: St Andrew’s Day
December
- 01: World AIDS Day
- 02: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery; National Mutt Day; Cyber Monday
- 03: Giving Tuesday; International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 04: Wildlife Conservation Day; International Day of Banks
- 05: International Volunteer Day; World Soil Day
- 06: St Nicholas Day
- 07: International Civil Aviation Day; Candle Day; Small Business Saturday
- 08: National Brownie Day
- 09: Green Monday; National Pastry Day; International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
- 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Prize Day
- 11: International Animal Rights Day; International Mountain Day; UNICEF Birthday
- 12: International Universal Health Coverage Day
- 13: nothing found
- 14: Monkey Day
- 15: nothing found
- 16: nothing found
- 17: nothing found
- 18: International Migrants Day
- 19: nothing found
- 20: International Human Solidarity Day
- 21: Yule; Winter Solstice
- 22: nothing found
- 23: Festivus
- 24: Christmas Eve
- 25: Christmas Day; Hanukkah
- 26: Boxing Day; Kwanzaa
- 27: International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
- 28: nothing found
- 29: nothing found
- 30: nothing found
- 31: New Year’s Eve
Source: Calendarr.com & various websites
Previous quarter: July – September 2024
