October 2025 - Dates For Your Calendar

Each month at Good Tuesday, we gather all the big (and little) dates you’ll want to know about. The most important dates for your calendar and the latest social media days for your diary; so you can plan ahead, join the conversation, and never miss a reason to celebrate.

Here are the important October dates for your calendar

Whether it's a plant-based feast for World Vegetarian Day, a heartfelt thank-you to your favourite teacher for World Teachers' Day, or the satisfying clink of a well-made gin and tonic for International Gin and Tonic Day, October is all about slowing down and showing up. It’s a month that reminds us to nourish our bodies, appreciate the people who shape us, and toast to the little things that make life sweeter.

Lots going on... but there's an extra hour in bed to look forward to at least.

These are some key October dates for mapping out social content or making sure you check in with the right people at the right time.

🧡 This month is:

• Black History Month
• Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Stoptober
• ADHD Awareness Month

October Dates For Your Calendar

1st - World Vegetarian Day, Yom Kippur

2nd - Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

3rd - Buy British Day (UK), Mean Girls Day, World Smile Day

4th - Mushroom Day (UK)

5th - World Teachers' Day, Grandparents Day (UK)

6th - Dyslexia Awareness Week begins (UK)

9th - World Sight Day

10th - World Mental Health Day, World Homeless Day

12th - World Arthritis Day

13th - Columbus Day (US), Thanksgiving (CA), Indigenous Peoples' Day (US), Coffee Week begins (UK)

15th - International Mushroom Day 16th - World Food Day

17th - National Pasta Day (US)

18th - World Menopause Day

19th - International Gin and Tonic Day

20th - Diwali

21st - Back to the Future Day

24th - Wear It Pink (Breast Cancer Awareness), United Nations Day

25th - Make a Difference Day (US)

26th - Daylight Savings Time Ends (Clocks Go Back 1hr)

29th - World Stroke Day

30th - National Checklist Day (US)

31st - Halloween