May Social Media Holidays 2024

Below you’ll find holidays/observational days coming up in May. Take advantage of the fun and unique opportunity these days gives you to spice up your social media content.

May we share some May holidays with you? Okay that wasn’t really that funny but we do have some good social media holidays for you to look over this month.

A little reminder before we get into the month, don’t forget to start prepping summer content as it’s almost that time! 


Onto the main attraction. Below you’ll find holidays/observational days coming up in May. Take advantage of the fun and unique opportunity these days gives you to spice up your social media content.

May social media holidays:

  • May 2nd - World Password Day
  • May 4th - Star Wars Day
  • May 5th - Cinco de Mayo
  • May 8th - Reward Yourself Day
  • May 12th - Mother’s Day
  • May 18th - Armed Forces Day
  • May 20th - Flower Day
  • May 22nd - World Paloma Day
  • May 27th - Memorial Day
  • May 29th - Paperclip Day
  • May 30th - National Creativity Day (Free Canva template below)

You’re not going to want to miss our FREE Canva template of the month! Click this link to access a fully customizable Canva template for National Creativity Day! 

Looking for more inspiration? 


This 2021 Mother’s Day campaign from North Face is a great example of linking a brand to an emotion elicited from a holiday.

North Face promoted celebrating strong moms as many of their customers are avid outdoors(wo)men or have been empowered from their strong mothers to get outdoors. 

They were able to connect our emotions around our mothers’ to the emotions and memories we have of being outdoors. Which in-turn supports their brand and product as they are an outdoor/active brand.

If you need a little help coming up with unique and fresh content or copy for your holiday posts, don’t worry!

Cloud Campaign offers a FREE caption generator that can help you come up with tons of holiday copy in a flash! Check that out here.

We also have a whole article on how to use AI in content creation that can help take your content creation game to the next level! 

And if you want even more social media holidays to browse, check out our 2024 social media holidays calendar. With multiple FREE Canva templates, AI caption prompts, and hundreds of holidays!See you next month for a breakdown of June’s holidays!