Unusual, Weird and Fun holidays celebrated around the world
There are many unusual, weird and funny holidays celebrated every single day all around the world. They are mostly holidays created by people who try to see everyday life from a different perspective, to bring more freshness and inspiration to their daily routine, or simply to have some fun.
These holidays often focus on things that are normally considered trivial, silly and not worth celebrating. But sometimes these things are well worth it. Take Ice Cream Day, for instance. Would anyone really argue that this wonderful food plays an important role in the life of every human being? Some other odd holidays are dedicated to actually really weird things, like Male Watchers Day. As they say tastes differ, and there is a special day for almost everything.
Choose a strange and obscure holiday for you to celebrate or enjoy them all with our list of the most bizarre holidays ever celebrated.
Help us List of Weird, Funny and Unusual Holidays for 2025-2026 year
May 2025
Thursday 22 May -
Buy a Musical Instrument Day;
World Goth Day (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 (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)
June 2025
Monday 9 June -
Donald Duck Day (Donald first appeared to us in a 1934 film called The Wise Little Hen, a retelling of the original little red hen story)
Thursday 12 June -
Red Rose Day;
Loving Day (is the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States. This is anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states.");
Superman Day (Superman was first created in 1933 by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the writer and artist respectively)
Thursday 19 June -
Garfield The Cat Day (Garfield was famously created by cartoonist Jim Davis and appeared in a cartoon strip on 19th June 1978);
World Sauntering Day (The holiday was created in 1979 by W.T. Rabe in response to the growing popularity of jogging. It is believed to have begun at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan, USA. The Grand Hotel has the world's longest porch at 660 feet. The idea behind the day was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them);
Dump The Pump Day (Third Thursday of June);
National Seersucker Day in US (date fer 2025)
Monday 23 June -
Pink Day in US;
Let It Go Day;
Rehabilitation day of the swastika (arose from 2009 on the initiative of the followers of the realism movement who believed that life on Earth was created scientifically by representatives of a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization who transmitted their message to us. Representatives of this civilization are called reelites by Elohim)
July 2025
Thursday 17 July -
World Emoji Day (International is an unofficial holiday. Celebrated annually since 2014, NBC reported that the day was Twitter's top trending item on July 17 in 2015);
Yellow Pig Day (is a monthly collaborative art project celebrating the United States' wide array of bizarre national holidays);
Tattoo Day August 2025
Sunday 31 August -
Franchise Appreciation Day (Franchise - the object of a franchise agreement. Franchising is a type of business organization where a party of the company-owner "franchisor" is allowed to transfer the right to sell goods/products/services of the company, for a certain fee, to another party);
Eat Outdoors Day September 2025
Wednesday 3 September -
Skyscraper Day (The very first skyscraper was built in 1885 in Chicago. It was The Home Insurance Building and had 10 floors. The author of the project is the American architect William Le Baron Jenney. It lasted until 1931);
Bed Day in Japan Wednesday 17 September -
Batman Day (an annual observance begun by DC Comics on September 17, 2013. The purpose of Batman Day is to celebrate the anniversary of the character’s first ever appearance, which was in Detective Comics #27 way back in May 1939)
Wednesday 24 September -
World Day Against Software Patents (Brussels, 2nd September 2008 — A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the “World Day Against Software Patents”);
National Microfilm Week in USA (Acknowledging the important contributions made by microfilm in the day-to-day life of America and the accomplishments of the microfilm, President to designate the week which begins on September 24, 1972, as National Microfilm Week. PROCLAMATION 4158)
Friday 26 September -
Johnny Appleseed Day (What many people don’t know is that Johnny Appleseed was no mere legend, but was, in fact, a missionary known by the name of John Chapman. Born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1774)
October 2025
November 2025
December 2025
Tuesday 23 December -
Roots Day;
HumanLight Day (is a secular holiday that focuses on the "positive, secular human values of reason, compassion, humanity and hope");
Festivus (a holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld, as an alternative to the pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season)
January 2026
Thursday 1 January -
Commitment Day (The first known Commitment Day was celebrated in 1960 as an extension of the tradition of New Year’s Resolutions—however);
First Foot Day;
Polar Bear Swim Day or Polar Plunge Day (Canada and United States);
Z Day (People whose first or last name start with the letter Z must have it pretty rough. Most processes, systems and organizations use alphabetical sorting as standard, meaning they are always last no matter the place or occasion)
Saturday 10 January -
Houseplant Appreciation Day (was established by The Gardener’s Network, establishing an official opportunity to remind people of the benefits of houseplants. Having plants in your home or office can do a great deal to lift your mood and improve your quality of life. For example, a 2009 study showed that the scent of lavender can effectively lower pulse rates in stressful situations);
Peculiar People Day;
Bittersweet Chocolate Day Wednesday 28 January -
Kazoo Day (Alabama Vest of Macon Georgia made the first Kazoo in the 1840's. Actually, he conceived the Kazoo, and had Thaddeus Von Clegg, a German clockmaster make it to his specifications)
February 2026
Friday 27 February -
No Brainer Day (This day was created by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, 'America's Premier Eventologist' - per Insight Magazine - Washington, DC - August, 1995, and 'The Premier Eventologist in the History of the World - per The Chicago Tribune - Chicago, Il - January 2001)
March 2026
April 2026
Sunday 12 April -
Big Wind Day (On April 12, 1934, the staff of the Mount Washington Observatory recorded the highest surface wind ever measured, anywhere on earth. This big wind was officially recorded at 231 miles per hour.);
Walk On Your Wild Side Day (Thomas and Ruth Roy are credited with being the creators of this celebration)
Wednesday 15 April -
Rubber Eraser Day (Joseph Priestley discovered the eraser in 1770, using pieces of rubber imported from Brazil. Then in 1858, Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia, Pa., patented the pencil with an eraser at the end);
Take A Wild Guess Day;
Stoker's Day (is celebrated in spring, at the end of the heating season. All shifts workers gether in the boiler room to extinguish the boilers and begin to celebrate. The date of this celebration is not fixed. The local authorities decide when to start and when to finish the heating season but usually it hapends not later than April 30 if the average air temperature is above +8 for 3 days in a raw)
May 2026
Tuesday 12 May -
Limerick Day (celebrates the birthday of Writer Edward Lear: 1812-1888. Limericks were popularized by Lear in 1846 in his Book of Nonsense);
Odometer Day (The odometer was invented by William Clayton in 1847)
Thursday 14 May -
Chicken Dance Day (“Der Ententanz” was the name of the song that inspired all of this, and while the dance has come to be called “The Chicken Dance”, the song itself is called The Duck Dance)
How to celebrate Fun Holidays
Well, we can eat, drink, dance. All that holiday wacky stuff. And maybe think some less and feel some more.
