March 2026 Monthly Holidays
Action & Skill Toys MonthAdopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month Link
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month Link Link
APS Month Link
Asset Management Awareness Month Link
Brain Injury Awareness Month Link
Child Life Month Link
Clap 4 Health Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
(Different sponsor from National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month Link
*Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Developmental Disabillities Awareness Month Link
Employee Spirit Month
Endometriosis Month Link
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month Link
Holy Humor Month (3/31-4/27) [30 days ends the Sunday after Easter]
Honor Society Awareness Month Link
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Mad for Plaid Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March Frozen Food Month
Music In Our Schools Month Link
National Athletic Training Month Link
National Breast Implant Awareness Month Link
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
(Different sponsor from Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Essential Tremor Awareness Month Link
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month Link
National Hockey Month Link
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/28-5/3)
National Ladder Safety Month
National March Into Literacy Month
National Noodle Month Link
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Peanut Month
National Pet Vaccination Month
National Snow Guards Safety Month Link
National Social Work Month Link
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Pastor's Wife Appreciation Month Link Link
Paws To Read Month
Play The Recorder Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Problem Gambling Awareness Month Link
Quinoa Month Link
Save The Vaquita Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month Link
Social Work Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Supply Management Month
Transgender Month of Action for Healthcare Equality Link
Trisomy Awareness Month Link
Vascular Abnormalities Awareness Month
Women's History Month: Link
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Worldwide Homeschooling Awareness Month
Youth Art Month
March 2026 Weekly Holidays
Cornish Pasty Week: 1-7? Link
*Hearing Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
*National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
*National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
*National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
*National Invest in a Veteran Week: 1-7 Link
*National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 Link
*Return The Borrowed Books Week: 1-7
*Termite Awareness Week: 1-7
*Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7 Link
*Will Eisner Week: 1-7 (Always has the 6th which is his birthday) Link
*World Hearing Awareness Week: 1-7
Telecommuter Appreciation Week: 1-7 (Always Week that has Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday 3/2)
National Consumer Protection Week: 1-7 Link (First Full Week in March. )
Celebrate Your Name Week: 1-7 (First Full Week)
Consumer Protection Week: 1-7
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week: 1-7 Link (First Full Week)
National Schools Social Work Week: 1-7 Link (First Sunday thru Saturday)
National Words Matter Week: 1-7 (First Full Week)
No More Week: 1-7 Link
Read an E-Book Week: 1-7 Link (First Full Week) (Note: Read An Ebook Day is in Sept.)
Save Your Vision Week: 1-7 Link (First Full Week)
Termite Awareness Week: 1-7 (First Week)
Women in Construction Week: 1-8 Link (First Sunday thru Saturday)
Words Matter Week: 1-7 (First Full Week)
Shrovetide: 2-4 (Sun.Mon.Tues. before Ash Wed.)
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 2-8 (Starts on First Monday)
National School Breakfast Week: 2-6 (First Full M-F week)
International Festival of Owls: 6-8 (First full weekend)
Campfire USA Birthday Week: 8-14 ( Second Full Week)
Girl Scout Week: 8-14 Link (Always the week with March 12)
National Procrastination Week: 8-14 (Second Week)
Teen Tech Week: 8-14 (Usually 2nd Week)
National Patient Safety Awareness Week: 8-14
Bar Crawl Week: 9-15 (Week before St. Patrick's Day) Link
International Brain Awareness Week: 9-13 Link
International Water Week: 9-13 Link
*Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign: 11-17
World Police and Fire Games: 12-21 (2027) Link
World Rattlesnake Roundup: 13-15 (Second Weekend)
American Chocolate Week: 15-21 (Always Third Full Week) Link
National Agriculture Week: 15-21
National Animal Poison Prevention Week: 15-21 (Third Full Week) Link Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week: 15-21 (Third Full Week) Link
National Poison Prevention Week:15-21 (Third Full Week) Link
World Folktales & Fables Week: 15-21 (Third Week)
Act Happy Week: 16-22 (Starts on 3rd Monday)
International Teach Music Week: 16-22
LGBT Health Awareness Week: 16-20 Link
National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week: 16-22
National Fix A Leak Week: 16-22 (Third M-Sun Week) Link
National Fragrance Week: 16-22 Link
Wellderly Week: 16-22 (Third Mon-Sun Week)
Native American Awareness Week: 17-20 Link
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 18-21 Link
AKC Agility Championships: 19-22 Link
*International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination: 21-27
Consider Christianity Week: 22-28 (Starts 2 Sundays Before Easter)
National Protocol Officer's Week: 22-28 (Last Full Week)
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 22-28 (Last Week)
National Cleaning Week: 22-28 (Last Week) Link
Passiontide: 22-4/4 (Begins on 5th Sunday of Lent and goes for 2 weeks)
Passion Week: 22-28 (Beginning the 5th Sunday of Lent. Week before Holy Week)
World Optometry Week: 22-28 Link Link Link (Always has 23rd in it)
Shakespeare Week: 23-29? Link
*National Farm Workers Awareness Week: 25-31 Link Link
*National Physicians Week: 25-31 Link
Holy Week: 29-4/4 (Begins on the 6th and final Sunday of Lent.)
March 2026 Daily Holidays
*Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day: 1
Link
*Baby Sleep Day: 1
*Black Women's Day: 1
*Breast Implant Illness Awareness Days:
1-30 (Not monthly observance)
*Dadgum That's Good Day: 1 (Masterbuilt food products &
cookbooks)
*Endometriosis Day or Wear Yellow Day: 1
Finisher's Medal
Day: 1 Link
(First
Sunday)
*Horse Protection
Day: 1
Link
*Indie Music Day:
1
*Meteorlogical
Spring: 1 (Temperature)
Namesake Day:
1 (Sunday of First Full Week)
*National Horse
Protection Day: 1
*National Peanut Lovers Day: 1
Link
*National Sunkist
Citrus Day: 1
Link
*Peace Corps Birthday:
1
*Pig Day: 1
*Plan a
Solo Vacation Day: 1
*Refired, Not Retired Day: 1
*Saint David's Day:
1 Link
*Self-injury
Awareness Day: 1
Link
*U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Day: 1
*World Compliment Day:
1 Link
*World Seagrass Day: 1
*Zero Discrimination Day: 1
Link
Academy Awards: 2
*Dr. Seuss Day: 2
Casimir Pulaski Day: 2 (First Monday in March)
Link (Note: See
also October 11)
Fun Facts About Names
Day: 2 (Monday
of First Full Week)
NEA's Read Across America Day:
2 (Nearest School
Day to Dr. Seuss's Birthday 3/2)
Ta'Anit Esther: 2
*World Teen Mental Illness Day: 2
Link
World Tennis Day:
2 (First Monday)
Holi:3
*I Want
You To Be Happy Day: 3
*International Ear Care Day: 3
*Irish Whiskey
Day: 3
Link
*National Anthem
Day: 3
*National Mulled Wine Day: 3
Link
Peace Corps Day: 3
Link
( Historical 3/1/1961 by Pres. Kennedy.
Observed on First Tuesday)
*Princess Day:
3 Link
Purim: 3
*Simplify Your Life Day: 3
*Soup It Forward Day: 3
Link
Unique Names Day: 3
(Tuesday of First Full Week)
*What If Cats and Dogs Had
Opposable Thumbs? Day: 3 Link
*World Birth Defects Day: 3
*World Hearing Awareness
Day: 3 Link
*World Wildlife Day: 3
Link
*Benjamin Harrison Day: 4
*Brain Injury Awareness Day: 4
Link (Note: Brain Injury Awareness Week is
in May)
*Courageous Follower Day: 4
Discover What Your Name
Means Day: 4 (Wednesday of First Full Week)
Holi: 4
*Holy Experiment Day: 4
Link and
Link
*Hug A G.I. Day: 4
Link
*International Scrapbooking Industry Day: 4
*March Forth-Do Something Day:
4
*Marching Music Day: 4 Link
*National Backcountry Ski Day: 4
*National Grammar Day: 4
Link
*National Sons Day: 4
Link
*Old Inauguration Day: 4
*Toy Soldier Day: 4
Link
*World Engineering Day For Sustainable Development: 4
*World Obesity Day: 4
Link
*Mars Day: 5
Nametag Day: 5 (Thursday of First Full Week)
*National Absinthe Day:
5 Link
*National Cheetos
Day: 5
Link
National Hospitalist Day:
5 (First Thursday)
Link
*National Pasty Day:
5 (Always on St. Piran's Day 3/5)
Link
*National Poutine Day: 5
*Saint Piran's Day: 5
Slam The Scam Day:
5 Link (Thursday
of Consumer Protection Wk)
World Book Day: 5
Link (First
Thursday)
*Day of The Dude: 6
Link
Dress in Blue Day: 6
Link
(Always First Friday)
Employee
Appreciation Day: 6 (Always First Friday)
Global Day of
Unplugging: 6-7 Link (First
Friday & Saturday)
Middle Name Pride Day: 6
( Friday of First Full Week)
*National Dentist's Day: 6
Link
Link
Link
Link
*National Dress Day: 6
Link
*National Frozen Food Day: 6
Link
National
Salesperson Day: 6 (First Friday) (Also
in December)
National Speech and Debate Education Day: 6
Link (First Friday)
*Oreo Cookie Day: 6
*Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day: 6 (Many
schools celebrate this on different dates in March.)
Link)
World Day of Prayer:
6 (Always First Friday)
Genealogy Day: 7 Link
(Saturday of First Full Week)
Iditarod: 7 (Begins on First Saturday)
*National Be Heard Day: 7
*National Cereal Day: 7
Link
*National Flapjacks
Day: 7 Link
National Frozen
Food Day: 7 Link (First
Saturday)
National Play Outside Day: 7
Link
(First Saturday)
Sock Monkey Day:
7 (First Saturday)
World Information Architecture Day: 7
Link (First
Saturday)
Check Your Batteries Day: 8
(Second Sunday)
*Day
for Women's Rights & International Peace: 8
Daylight Saving Time Begins:
8 (Turn Ahead 1 Hour) @2:00 am) (March 8 to November 1)
Girl
Scout Sunday: 8
Link
(The Sunday in Girl Scout Week)
*Girls Write
Now Day: 8
Girl Scout Sunday: 8
Link
(The Sunday in Girl Scout Week)
*National Biobased Products Day: 8
Link
*International Women's Day: 8
Link
*International
Working Women's Day: 8
National "I AM" Day: 8 (Second Sunday)
*National Breast Implant Awareness Day: 8 Link
*National Proofreading Day: 8
*National Peanut Cluster Day: 8
Link
*National Retro Video
Game Day: 8 Link
*Volunteers of America Day: 8
*Barbie Day: 9
Fill Our Staplers Day: 9 (Also Nov.4. Always Day after Daylight Savings
Ends)
*Get Over It Day: 9
Link
*Joe Franklin Day: 9
Napping Day:
9 (Monday after
daylight savings times)
*National Urban
Educator Day: 9 Link
*Panic Day: 9
Link
*International Bagpipe Day: 10
*International Day of Awesomeness:
10 Link
*International Day of
Women Judges: 10
*Land Line Telephone Day:
10
*Mario Day: 10
*National Women &
Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: 10
Organize Your Home Office Day: 10
(Second Tuesday)
*Salvation Army Day: 10
*US Paper Money
Day: 10
*COVID-19 Global Pandemic Day: 11
*Dream 2026 Day: 11
*Johnny Appleseed
Day: 11
*Key Deer Awareness Day: 11
*National 311 Day: 11
Link
*National Find Common Ground Day: 11
*National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day: 11
Link
Link
Link
*National Promposal Day: 11
Link (Ask
to prom)
Registered
Dietitian Day: 11 (Second Wednesday)
Sterile
Packaging Day: 11 (Second Wednesday)
*World Plumbing Day: 11
Link
*Alfred Hitchock Day: 12
Link
*Girl Scout Birthday Day: 12
Link
Nutrician and Dietetics Technician, Registered Day:
12 (Second Thursday)
*Working Moms Day: 12
World Kidney Day:
12 (Second Thursday)
*Donald Duck Day: 13 (Link Removed Due to
Virus) (See also June 9)
*Earmuffs Day: 13
*Good Samaritan Involvement Day: 13
*International Riesling Day:
13
Link
*Itra-Uterine Growth
Awareness Restriction (IUGAR) Day: 13
*K-9 Veterans Day: 13
Link
*Ken Day: 13 (Doll)
**L. Ron
Hubbard Day: 13
*National Jewelry Day: 13
Link
*National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day: 13
Purim: 13
Shabbat Across America and Canada: 13
*Smart & Sexy Day: 13
World
Sleep Day: 13 Link
(Friday of 2nd Full Week)
*International Ask A Question Day: 14
*International Day of Action
for Rivers: 14
Link
*International Day of Mathematics: 14
Link
International Fanny Pack
Day:14 Link (Second Saturday)
*MOTH-ER Day: 14
National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day:
14 (Second Saturday)
*Potato Chip
Day: 14
*Pi Day (as in the math pie = 3.14159265 etc.): 14
Link
*Professional
Speakers Celebration: 14
*Save a Spider Day: 14
Link
*Write Your Story Day: 14
Academy Awards: 15
*Brutus Day: 15
*Buzzards Day: 15 Link
*Ides of March: 15
*International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter:
15
Link
*International Day to Combat Islamophobia: 15
*Medical Examiners Day: 15
Link
Link
Mothering Sunday: 15
Link
(The Fourth
Sunday in Lent.3 weeks before Easter.)
*National VO Day
(Voice Over):
15
*National Shoe The World Day: 15
*True Confessions Day: 15
Link
*World Consumer Rights Day: 15
Link
*Black Press Day: 16
*Campfire Girls Day: 16
*Curlew Day: 16
*Freedom of Information Day: 16
(On or nearst to 16th)
*Goddard Day: 16
Link
Link
*Lips Appreciation Day: 16
Link
*National
Panda Day: 16
*No Selfies Day: 16
*St. Urho's Day: 16
Link and
Link
Well-Elderly or Wellderly Day: 16 (Third Monday)
*Campfire Day: 17
Laylat Al-Qadr: 17
Link
National Agriculture Day: 17
Link
(Third Tuesday)
*National Slime Day: 17
Link
(Nickelodeon)
*St. Patrick's Day:
17 Link
World Social Work Day: 17
(Third Tuesday)
Link
3-D Day: 18 Link
(The 3rd day of the 3rd week of the 3rd month)
*Awkward Moments Day: 18
*Forgive Mom and Dad Day: 18
Link
*Global
Recycling Day: 18
Link
*Kiss Your Fianc e Day: 18
*National
Biodiesel Day: 18
*National Public Defense Day: 18
Link
*National Sloppy Joe Day: 18
Link
Transit Driver Appreciation Day: 18 (On
18th unless it falls on weekends. Then closest working day.)
Link
Small Business Development Day: 18
Link
(Third Wednesday)
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day: 19 (Third Thursday)
*Client's Day: 19
Link
*Certified Nurses Day: 19
Link
Eid-Al-Fitr: 19 (Begins at Sundown)
Goddess
of Fertility Day: 19 (Day before the Spring Equinox)
*International
Read To Me Day: 19
Link
*National Backyard Day: 19
Link
*National Certified Nurses Day: 19
Link
Link
*National Chocolate Caramel Day: 19
Link
National Farm Rescuer Day: 19
Link (Third Thursday)
*National
Poultry Day: 19 Link
National Spray Tanning Day: 19
Link (Third Thursday)
*Operation Iraqi Freedom Day: 19
*Raspberry Day: 19
*Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day: 19
*Alien Abduction Day: 20 (Started in 2008
at Toronto Alien Festival)
*Bed-in For Peace Day: 20
(Beatles - John and Yoko)
Eid-Al-Fitr: 20
*Great American
Meat Out Day: 20 Link
*International Day of Happiness: 20
Link
Link
*French Language Day: 20
Link
International Astrology Day: 20 (Spring Equinox)
*National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: 20
Link
*National Proposal Day: 20 (First day of Spring and Fall)
Naw-Ruz: 20 (Spring Equinox)
Ostara: 20 (Spring Equinox)
Proposal Day: 20 (Spring Equinox)
*Snowman Burning Day: 20
Spring (Vernal Equinox):
20 10:46 am EDT
(March 20-June 20)
*World Flour Day: 20
Link
*World
Frog Day: 20 Link
*Won't You Be My Neighbor Day: 20
*World Day of Theatre for Children
and Young People: 20 Link
World Storytelling Day: 20
Link
(Always Spring Equinox)
*Gallo Wine
Day: 21
*International Colour Day: 21
Link
*International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: 21
*International
Day of Forests and The Tree: 21
Link
*International
Day of Nowruz: 21 Link
International Sports Car Racing Day: 21
Link
(Third Saturday)
*Memory Day: 21
Milestone Divas Day: 21
Link (Third Saturday)
*National Common Courtesy Day: 21
National Corn Dog Day: 21
Link
(On First Saturday of NCAA Men's Division. Usually
3rd Saturday)
*National Day of Action
On Syringe Exchange: 21
Link
*National Fragrance Day: 21
Link (Note: National Perfume Day is in April)
*National Healthy Fats Day: 21
*National Renewable Energy Day: 21
*National
Single Parent Day: 21
Link
National Tequila Day: 21 (Third Saturday) Mexico
Link (On July 24th in US)
Play The Recorder
Day: 21 (Third Saturday)
Save The Panther Day: 21 (Third Saturday)
*Smiley Day :) : 21
Link
Link
*Twitter Day: 21
(Social Media Application)
Walk In The Sand Day: 21
Link
(Saturday after the March Equinox)
*World Down Syndrome
Day: 21 Link
*World
Day for Glaciers: 21
*World Poetry
Day: 21 Link
*World Puppetry Day: 21
Link
*World Sparrow Day: 21
Link
*World
Vermouth Day: 21
Link
Worldwide & National Quilting Day: 21 (Always Third Saturday)
Link
*39 And Holding Day: 22
Link
*As Young As You Feel Day: 22
Link
*International Day of The Seal: 22
*National
Goof-off Day: 22
*Talk Like William Shatner Day: 22
*Tuskegee Airmen Day: 22
Women Arts Day: 22
*World Daffodil Day: 22
Link
(Northern Hemisphere) (August 21 Southern
Link )
*World Day for Water (aka World Water Day) : 22
Link
*World Day
of Metta: 22
*Atheist Day: 23
Link
*National Puppy Day: 23
Link
Link
*National Chia Day: 23
Link
*National Tamale Day: 23
*Near Miss Day: 23
*OK Day: 23
Link
*World Meteorological Day: 23
Link
Link
Link
Link
Link
*World Optometry Day: 23
Link
Link
Link
Link
Link
Link
American Diabetes Association Alert Day: 24
Link
(4th Tuesday)
*International
Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and
for Dignity of Victims: 24
Link
*National
Agriculture Day: 24
*National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day: 24
Link
*National Cocktail Day: 24
*World Tuberculosis
Day: 24
All Womens' Equal Pay: 25?
Link
International Balloon Animal Day: 25 (Fourth
Wednesday)
*International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of
Slavery and The Transatlantic: 25
*International Day of The Unborn Child:
25
Link
*International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members: 25
Link
Little
Red Wagon Day: 25 Link (Last
Wednesday)
Manatee Appreciation Day: 25
Link (Last Wednesday)
*National
Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy: 25
National Equal Pay Day:
25?
Link
*National Medal
of Honor Day: 25
*Old New Year's Day: 25
*Pecan Day: 25
*Tolkien Reading Day: 25
*Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day): 25
Link (Note: This is Sweden and Denmark. For
the US many consider August 24 Waffle Day.)
World Maths Day: 26
Link
*Legal Assistants Day: 26
*Live Long And Prosper Day: 26
*Make
Up Your Own Holiday Day: 26 Link
*National Science Appreciation Day: 26
Link
*Purple Day: 26
Link
*Spinach Day: 26
*Celebrate Exchange Day: 27
Link
Endometriosis March Day: 27-29
Link
(Last weekend)
Frozen Dead Guy Days: 27-29
Link
*International Medical Science Liason Day: 27
Link
*International
Whisk(e)y Day: 27
Link
*National Medical Billers Day: 27
Link
*National Scribble Day:
27
*Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day: 27
Link
*Viagra Day: 27
*World
AdTech Day: 27 Link
*World Cheese Day: 27
*World
Theatre Day: 27
Link
*Barnum & Bailey Day: 28
Be Mad Day: 28 (Fourth Saturday)
Earth Hour: 28 (Fourth Saturday) (Not to be confused with Earth Day. This pertains to turning off
lights at 8:30 pm local time.)
*National Triglycerides
Day: 28
Link
Support Women
Artists Now Day: 28 (Last Saturday)
*Weed Appreciation Day: 28
Link
Whole Grain Sampling Day: 28 (Last Saturday)
*Knights of Columbus Founders Day: 29
National Education
and Sharing Day: 29 Link
(11th day of the Month of Nissan)
*National Mom & Pop
Business Owner's Day: 29
*National Vietnam War Veterans Day: 29
Link
*Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day: 29
Palm Sunday: 29
*Smoke & Mirrors Day: 29
Link
*Texas
Loves The Children Day: 29
World Piano Day: 29
Link (On the
88th day of the year. Normally March 29, except on leap year. There is also
Piano Month in Sept.)
*Doctors Day: 30
Link
*Grass Is Always
Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day: 30
*I Am In Control Day: 30
Link
*International Day of Zero Waste: 30
*International Laundry Folding Day: 30
*Pencil Day: 30
*Torrents Day: 30
Link
*Virtual Vacation Day: 30
Link
*World Bi-polar Day: 30
Link
*Anesthesia Tech Day: 31 Link
*Bunsen Burner Day: 31
*Cesar Chavez Day
or US Border Control Day: 31
Link
Link
Doctors' Day: 31
*International Hug A Medielvalist Day: 31
*International Transgender
Day of Visibility: 31
Link
*National Crayon Day: 31 Link
Link
*National "She's Funny That Way" Day: 31
*National Tater Day: 31
Link
*Prom Day:
31 Link
*Starbucks
Day: 31
*Terri's Day: 31
Link
*World Backup Day: 31
