Awareness Themes
March 2025
Month-long Observances:
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Women’s History Month
UK Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Great Daffodil Appeal Month
Awareness Days and Events:
March 1: Intercalary Days / St. David’s Day / 19th Day Fast Begins
March 2: Feast of Orthodoxy / Disability Day of Mourning / Self-Injury Awareness Day / International Wheelchair Day / Zero Discrimination Day
March 3: World Hearing Day
March 5: Shrove Tuesday
March 6: Ash Wednesday
March 7: Holika Dahan / Purim
March 8: International Women’s Day
March 9: Eid al-Fitr / Navatri / Cheesefare Sunday
March 10: Great Lent Begins
March 11: Navatri
March 12: Navatri
March 14: Nanakshahi (New Year) / Hola Mohalla / Pi Day
March 15: Navatri / International Day to Combat Islamophobia
March 16: Navatri / International Day of Happiness
March 17: St. Patrick’s Day / Mother’s Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day / Navatri
March 19: Navatri / International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 20: Ostara / World Down Syndrome Day / World Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / Spring Equinox / Single Parents’ Day
March 21: International Day of Forests / Nowruz (New Year) / World Poetry Day / International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 22: World Water Day
March 24: World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
March 25: Annunciation of the Virgin Mary / Annunciation to the Theotokos
March 26: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 28: Holi / International Trans Day of Visibility
March 29: Earth Hour
March 30: World Bipolar Day