⌂ Calendar → May → 23 → Don't Fry Day

May 23 Events
← May 22	May 24 →

Don't Fry Day

Name: Don't Fry Day
Start: 2025-05-23T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-05-23
Location: US Holidays

Don't Fry Day is held on May 23. The Friday before Memorial Day. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual.

Help us

To help reduce rising rates of skin cancer from overexposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun, the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention has designated the Friday before Memorial Day as “Don’t Fry Day” to encourage sun safety awareness and to remind everyone to protect their skin while enjoying the outdoors.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

Buy a Musical Instrument Day on May 22;

World Goth Day on May 22 (The Official World Goth Day site defines it as "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world.");

Sherlock Holmes Day on May 22 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the british writer, who gave the world one of the most famous fictional detectives, was born on this day in 1859);