You might be deep into planning next year, or you might just have a quiet moment to let the dates for 2024 sink in.This Free Calendar and Awareness Dates for 2024 will mean you can shortcut your planning and get your marketing sorted quickly. As always, double check any dates as things move (and humans can make mistakes). And as it does take me a long time to put this edit together, I’ve started up a page so you can Buy Me A Coffee if you appreciate the work. It is a passion project of mine so I hope it helps.

So here we are, a big old list of dates for you to
– copy and paste
– go and buy tickets to the exciting stuff
– forward to a colleague / friend / partner so they can use them too

If you do find this useful, please let me know. If you forward to a friend, make sure they sign up as I’ll keep updating these throughout the year.

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates January 2024

• 1 – New Years Day
• 1 – 31 Dry January
• 1 – 31 Veganuary
• 3 Traitors Season 2 BBC
• 4 World Braille Day
• 5 Stranger Thing’s Play opens
• 5 Twelfth Night
• 6 Twelfth Day
• 7 Vera new series on ITV
• 8 Back to School (approx)
• 11 New Wolf Moon
• 12 Mean Girls Film (2024)
• 14 @dancingonice starts
• 14 Critics Choice Awards Ceremony
• 14 – 28 Tennis Australian Open
• 15 Blue Monday
• 15 Samaritans Brew Monday
• 15 Love Island All Stars
• 18 Winnie the Pooh Day
• 20 The King & I play opens at The Dominion Theatre
• 22 Winter Walk for Endo
• 24 National Pie Day
• 25 Full Moon Wolf Moon
• 26-28 RSPB Big Bird Watch
• 25 Burns Night
• 26 Australia Day
• 27 – 4 Feb – National Storytelling Week

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates February 2024

• 1 – 28 LGBT History Month
• 1 Apprentice on BBC
• 2 Six Nations Rugby
• 2 Groundhog Day (US)
• 4 Grammys Ceremony
• 4 World Cancer Day @worldcancerday 
• 5 – 11 Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week
• 8 One Day Series on Netflix
• 9 New Snow Moon
• 9 – 11 New York Fashion Week
• 9 – 25 Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks Dark Skies Festival
• 10 Chinese New Year – Year of the Dragon
• 11 Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Parade
• 11 Super Bowl (US)
• 12 Half Term Week (approx)
• 13 Galentine’s Day
• 13 Pancake Day
• 13 Galentine’s Day
• 14 The New Look – Christian Dior on Apple TV
• 14 Valentine’s Day – click here for my Instagrammable Valentine’s Places in London
• 14 Madame Web Film with Dakota Johnson
• 14 Basant Panchami (Hindu Spring Festival)
• 14 Love Is Blind on Netflix
• 14-28 March Ash Wednesday Lent
• 15 Singles Day
• 15 – 20 Sept Tate Modern Yoko Ono Exhibition
• 16 – 20 London Fashion Week
• 17 National Random Acts of Kindness Day
• 18 BAFTA 
• 19 Back to School
• 20 – 26 Milan Fashion Week
• 22 Avatar: The Last Airbender (on Netflix)
• 23 ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ season 6
• 24 Full Moon Snow Moon
• 24 Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 26 – 5 March Paris Fashion Week
• 29 Leap Year

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates March 2024

• 1 St David’s Day
• 1 Start of meteorological spring
• 1 Dune: Part Two Film
• 1 Ovarian Cancer Month
• 2 Brit Awards
• 2 first F1 race in Bahrain
• 7 World Book Day
• 8 International Women’s Day
• 10 Oscars
• 10 New Worm Moon
• 10 Mother’s Day
• 12-15 Cheltenham Festival
• 17 St Patrick’s Day
• 17 Comic Relief
• 18-23 Spring Clearing Week
• 20 Spring Equinox
• 23 Icons of British Style at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire
• 25 Full Moon Worm Moon
• 25 Lunar eclipse
• 29 School Holidays start (approx)
• 29 Good Friday
• 29 Film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• 30 The Gemini Oxford / Cambridge Boat Race
• 31 Easter Sunday
• 31 Clocks Go Forward

 

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates April 2024

• 1 Easter Monday Bank Holiday
• 1 April Fool’s Day
• 4 Ripley (Talented Mr Ripley remake) with Andrew Scott on Netflix
• 5 Scoop based on Prince Andrew Drama on Netflix
• 8 New Pink Moon
• 8 Solar eclipse
• 9 Eid al-Fitr
• 10 National Siblings Day
• 11 Ramadan 
• 11 – 13 Grand National
• 11 National Pet Day
• 12 Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black Film released (UK)
• 12 – 21 Coachella Festival
• 15 Back to School (approx)
• 19 Taylor Swift  new album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
• 20 Record Store Day
• 20 – 6 May Snooker World Championships
• 21 London Marathon
• 21 National Tea Day
• 22 Earth Day – theme Planet vs. Plastics
• 23 Full Moon Pink Moon
• 23 St George’s Day
• 23 Shakespeare’s Birthday
• 26 Challengers Film in cinemas
• 26 Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story on Disney+

 

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates May 2024

• Mental Health Awareness Month
• 2 London Mayoral Election
• 5 Orthodox Easter Sunday
• 6 Early May bank holiday
• 6 Met Gala Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
• 7 New Flower Moon
• 10 200 years of the National Gallery
• 11 Eurovision Song Contest
• 11 or 12 Women’s FA Cup Final
• 12 US Mother’s Day
• 14 Cannes Film Festival
• 16 Bridgerton Series 3 part 1
• 16 International Day of Light
• 18 V&A Exhibition Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
• 20 Tennis French Open
• 20 World Bee Day
• 21 – 25 RHS Chelsea Flower Show – click here for my Instagrammable Places at Chelsea in Bloom for Chelsea Flower Show
• 23 Full Moon Flower Moon
• 23 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts
• 24-26 Birmingham Pride
• 25 The Emirates FA Cup Final
• 25-27 Blenheim Palace Food Festival
• 26 RideLondon
• 27 Spring Bank Holiday
• 27 Cheese Rolling
• 27 Half Term Holiday (approx)

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates June 2024

• Pride Month
• 3 New Term Starts (aprox)
• 6 New Strawberry Moon
• 6 80th Anniversary of D Day
• 8 World Oceans Day
• 10-16 Men’s Health Week
• 11-22 Hampton Court Palace Festival
• 12-16 Taste of London Festival
• 13 Bridgerton Series 3 part 2
• 14 June – 14 July Football European Championships
• 15 Trooping the Colour
• 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (US)
• 16 Father’s Day
• 16 Eid al-Adha
• 17 – 23 Queens Tennis
• 17 Cannes Lions
• 17 Cervical Screening Awareness Week
• 18-22 Royal Ascot
• 20 Summer Solstice
• 20- 23 Isle of Wight Festival
• 21 Full Moon Strawberry Moon
• 21 Taylor Swift Eras Tour arrives in UK
• 21-30 Jane Austen Regency Week
• 22 Cervical Cancer Awarness week
• 22 Naomi Exhibition at V&A
• 26 Glastonbury starts
• 29 London Pride

 

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates July 2024

• 1-14 Wimbledon Championships
• 1 Canada Day
• 2-7 RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
• 4 Independence Day
• 5 Barbie®: The Exhibition The Design Museum, London
• 5 New Buck Moon
• 7 F1 British Grand Prix
• 11 Goodwood Festival of Speed
• 11-29 Sept Buckingham Palace Summer Opening
• 17 World Emoji Day
• 14 – 9 Sept BBC Proms
• 14 Bastille Day
• 14 Basant Panchami (Hindu Spring Festival)
• 14-21 Golf The Open Championship St Andrews
• 21 Full Moon Buck Moon
• 24 School Summer Holidays (approx)
• 26 July – 11 August – Summer Olympics in Paris (ooh la la)
• 30 International Friendship Day

 

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates August 2024

• 1 Yorkshire Day
• 2-5 Brighton Pride
• 2-24 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh, Scot
• 2-26 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• 4 New Sturgeon Moon
• 12-18 Afternoon Tea Week
• 19 Full Moon Sturgeon Moon
• 21-25 Reading Festival & Leeds Festival
• 22-25 Creamfields North
• 25-26 Notting Hill Carnival
• 26 Summer bank holiday
• 26 Tennis US Open
• 26 National Dog Day
• 26 August Bank Holiday

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates September 2024

• 1 Start of meteorological autumn
• 1 Second Hand September
• 1 World Alzheimer’s Month
• 1 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
• 1 to 1 Jan Blackpool Illuminations
• 2 (approx) Back to School – term starts
• 2 New Harvest Moon
• 8 Great North Run
• 10 World Suicide Prevention Day
• 11 The National Television Awards
• 13 Roald Dahl Day
• 13 – 22 Jane Austen Festival
• 16-24 London Design Festival
• 18 Supermoon Harvest Moon
• 18 International Equal Pay Day
• 21 World Alzheimer’s Day
• 22 Start of Autumn – Autumn Equinox
• 27 World Biggest Coffee Morning (MacMillan)

 

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates October 2024

• Go Sober for October
• Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Black History Month
• Menopause Awareness Month
• 1 International Coffee Day
• 1 Start of Pudding Season
• 2 New Hunter’s Moon
• 3 Mean Girls Day ‘it’s October 3rd’
• 4 Film Joker: Folie à Deux
• 5 World Teacher’s Day
• 7-13 National Curry Week
• 10 Mental Health Awareness Day
• 13 Royal Parks Half Marathon
• 17 Supermoon Full Moon Hunter’s Moon
• 18 World Menopause Day
• 25 Half term (approx)
• 27 Clocks Go Back
• 28 UK Sausage Week
• 31 Halloween – click here for my Instagrammable Places in London at Halloween

 

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates November 2024

• National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
• Movember
• 1 New Beaver Moon
• 1 Diwali
• 4 Back to School – new term starts
• 5 Bonfire Night
• 5 US Presidential Election
• 10 Remembrance Sunday
• 11 Remembrance Day
• 15 Full Moon Beaver Moon
• 15 Children in Need
• 19 International Men’s Day
• 22 Film Gladiator 2
• 23 Thanksgiving 
• 24 Black Friday
• 27 Cyber Monday
• 30 St Andrew’s Day
• 30 Small Business Saturday

Free Calendar and Awareness Dates December 2024

• Decembeard for Bowel Cancer
• 1 New Cold Moon
• 12 Christmas Jumper Day (TBC)
• I’m A Celebrity Final (TBC)
• 14 Strictly Come Dancing Final
• 15 Full Moon Cold Moon
• 20 School breaks up – Christmas holidays
• 21 Winter Solstice
• 24 Christmas Eve
• 25 Christmas Day – click here for my most Instagrammable Christmas Decorations in London
• 25 – 2 Jan Hanukkah – festival of light, Jewish
• 26 Boxing Day
• 30 New Wolf Moon
• 31 New Year’s Eve

Found this 2024 Calendar handy? Keep checking back as I’ll be updating this regularly as more dates are announced. It takes me AGES to put this together, but I love doing it. If you’d like to support me, you can Buy Me A Coffee here. And huge thank you!