Most of us have the well-known national days/weeks in our diaries, or at least we will be prompted well in advance of them via the media, but there are many other unusual ones you might want to use as prompts for your social media posts.

Here are 30 slightly more obscure national days to see you through the first 6 months of 2020.

  1. Houseplant Appreciation Day 10 Jan
  2. National Clean Off Your Desk Day 13 Jan
  3. National Handwriting Day 23 Jan
  4. National Compliment Day 24 Jan
  5. Chocolate Cake Day 27 Jan
  6. Hedgehog Day 2 Feb
  7. Time to Talk Day 6 Feb
  8. Send a Card to a Friend Day 7 Feb
  9. National Pizza Day 9 Feb
  10. Safer Internet Day 11 Feb
  11. Random Acts of Kindness Day 17 Feb
  12. Leap Day 29 Feb
  13. British Pie Week starts 2 Mar
  14. National Grammar Day 4 Mar
  15. Learn About Butterflies Day 14 Mar
  16. Find a Rainbow Day 3 Apr
  17. Tell a Lie Day 4 Apr
  18. No Housework Day 7 Apr
  19. Look up at the Sky Day 14 Apr
  20. National Tea Day 21 Apr
  21. Honesty Day 29 Apr
  22. National Walking Month start 1 May
  23. Clean up your room day 10 May
  24. World Sleep Day 13 May
  25. Brothers and Sisters Day 31 May
  26. Hug your cat day 4 Jun
  27. National Yo-Yo Day 6 Jun
  28. World Gin Day 13 Jun
  29. World Blood Donor Day 14 Jun
  30. Wrong Trousers Day 26 Jun

Look out for the second half of the year’s list later in 2020!