Editing March (section)

== Observances ==
''This list does not necessarily imply either official status or general observance.''

=== Month-long ===
* In Catholic tradition, March is the Month of Saint Joseph.
* [[List of commemorative months#March|Endometriosis Awareness Month]] ([[International observance]])
* National Nutrition Month (Canada)
* [[Season for Nonviolence]]: January 30 – April 4 ([[International observance]])
* [[Women's History Month]] (Australia, United Kingdom, United States)
* Women's Role in History Month ([[Philippines]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women's Month {{!}} Department of Education |url=https://www.deped.gov.ph/2017/03/31/womens-month/ |access-date=2023-11-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==== American ====
* [[List of commemorative months#March|Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ucp.org/tag/national-cerebral-palsy-awareness-month/|title=National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month – UCP|website=ucp.org|access-date=2016-03-25|archive-date=2017-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707205747/http://ucp.org/tag/national-cerebral-palsy-awareness-month/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Irish-American Heritage Month]]
* [[Multiple Sclerosis Foundation|Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month]]
* [[National Association for Music Education|Music in our Schools Month]]
* [[List of commemorative months#March|National Athletic Training Month]]
* [[List of commemorative months#March|National Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month]]
* National Celery Month
* National Frozen Food Month
* [[List of commemorative months#March|National Kidney Month]]
* [[American Dietetic Association|National Nutrition Month]]
* [[National Association of Social Workers|National Professional Social Work Month]] 
* [[List of commemorative months#March|National Reading Awareness Month]]
* [[Youth Art Month]]

=== Non-Gregorian ===
''(All [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]], [[Islam]]ic, and [[Jew]]ish observances begin at the sundown prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question unless otherwise noted.)''
* [[List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Chinese calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Hebrew calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Islamic calendar]]
* [[List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar]]

=== Movable ===
* [[List of movable Eastern Christian observances]]
* [[List of movable Western Christian observances]]
* [[National Corndog Day]] ([[United States]]): March 21
* [[Equal Pay Day]] ([[United States]]): March 31

==== First Sunday ====
* [[Children's Day#New Zealand|Children's Day]] ([[New Zealand]])

==== First week, March 1 to 7 ====
* [[Global Money Week]]

==== School day closest to March 2 ====
* [[Read Across America|Read Across America Day]]

==== First Monday ====
* [[Casimir Pulaski Day]] ([[United States]])

==== First Tuesday ====
* [[National Grandparents Day#France|Grandmother's Day]] ([[France]])

==== First Thursday ====
* [[World Book Day (UK and Ireland)]]
* [[World Maths Day]]

==== First Friday ====
* [[Employee Appreciation Day]] ([[United States]], [[Canada]])

==== Second Sunday ====
* [[Daylight saving time]] begins ([[United States]] and [[Canada]])

==== Week of March 8: March 8–14 ====
* [[Women of Aviation Worldwide Week]]

==== Monday closest to March 9, unless March 9 falls on a Saturday ====
* [[Baron Bliss#Baron Bliss Day|Baron Bliss Day (Belize)]]

==== Second Monday ====
* [[Canberra Day]] ([[Australia]])
* [[Commonwealth Day]] ([[Commonwealth of Nations]])

==== Second Wednesday ====
* [[Public holidays in Liberia|Decoration Day (Liberia)]]
* [[No Smoking Day]] ([[United Kingdom]])

==== Second Thursday ====
* [[World Kidney Day]]

==== Friday of the second full week of March ====
* [[World Sleep Day]]

==== Third week in March ====
* [[National Poison Prevention Week]] ([[United States]])

==== Third Monday ====
* [[Public holidays in Mexico|Birthday of Benito Juarez]] ([[Mexico]])

==== March 19th, unless the 19th is a Sunday, then March 20 ====
* [[Saint Joseph|Feast of Joseph of Nazareth]] ([[Western Christianity]])
** [[Father's Day]] (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia)
** [[Falles|Las Fallas]], celebrated on the week leading to March 19. ([[Valencia]])
** [[Mission San Juan Capistrano|"Return of the Swallow"]], annual observance of the [[American cliff swallow|swallows]]' return to [[Mission San Juan Capistrano]] in [[California]].

==== Third Wednesday ====
* [[Arbor Day#Netherlands|National Festival of Trees]] ([[Netherlands]])

==== March equinox: c. March 20 ====

{{see also|March equinox}}
* [[Nowruz]], The [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] new year. (Observed Internationally)
* [[Chunfen]] ([[East Asia]])
* [[Dísablót]] (some [[Asatru]] groups)
* [[Earth Day#History of the Equinox Earth Day (March 20)|Earth Equinox Day]]
* [[Thelema#Holidays|Equinox of the Gods/New Year]] ([[Thelema]])
* [[Higan]] ([[Japan]])
* [[International Astrology Day]]
* [[Mabon (Wicca)|Mabon]] ([[Southern Hemisphere]]) ([[Neo-paganism]])
* [[Ostara]] ([[Northern Hemisphere]]) ([[Neo-paganism]])
* [[Shunbun no Hi]] ([[Japan]])
* [[Ásatrú holidays#The Troth|Sigrblót]] ([[The Troth]])
* [[Ásatrú holidays#Asatru Free Assembly|Summer Finding]] ([[Asatru Free Assembly]])
* [[Sun-Earth Day]] ([[United States]])
* [[Vernal Equinox Day]]/[[Kōreisai]] ([[Japan]])
* [[World Storytelling Day]]

==== Fourth Monday ====
* [[Public holidays in Christmas Island|Labour Day]] ([[Christmas Island]], Australia)

==== Fourth Tuesday ====
* [[American Diabetes Association#American Diabetes Alert Day|American Diabetes Alert Day]] ([[United States]])

==== Last Saturday ====
* [[Earth Hour]] ([[International observance]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.earthhour.org/|title=Homepage|date=2 February 2018}}</ref>

==== Last Sunday ====
* [[Daylight saving time|European Summer Time]] begins

==== Last Monday ====
* [[Seward's Day]] ([[Alaska]], United States)

=== Fixed ===
* [[March 1]]
** [[Baba Marta]] ([[Bulgaria]]),
** [[Prohibition in Iceland#Beer Day|Beer Day]] ([[Iceland]])
** [[Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death]] ([[Iraqi Kurdistan]])
** [[Francisco Solano López|Heroes' Day]] ([[Paraguay]])
** [[Independence Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)]]
** [[Mărțișor]] ([[Romania]] and [[Moldavia]])
** [[National Pig Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)]]
** [[Saint David's Day]] ([[Wales]])
** [[Samiljeol]] ([[South Korea]])
** [[Self-injury Awareness Day]] ([[International observance]])
** [[World Civil Defence Day]]
* [[March 2]]
** [[List of food days#March|National Banana Creme Pie Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[National Reading Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Obama, Fukui#Traditions|Omizu-okuri ("Water Carrying") Festival]] ([[Obama, Fukui|Obama]], Japan)
** [[Public holidays in Burma|Peasant's Day (Burma)]]
** [[Texas Independence Day]] ([[Texas]], United States)
** [[Public holidays in Ethiopia|Victory at Adwa Day (Ethiopia)]]
* [[March 3]]
** [[Hinamatsuri]] ([[Japan]])
** [[Public holidays in Bulgaria|Liberation Day (Bulgaria)]]
** [[Martyrs' Day#Malawi|Martyr's Day (Malawi)]]
** [[Public holidays in Georgia|Mother's Day (Georgia)]]
** [[List of food days#March|National Canadian Bacon Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Public holidays in Egypt|Sportsmen's Day (Egypt)]]
** [[World Wildlife Day]]
* [[March 4]]
** [[National Grammar Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[St Casimir's Day]] ([[Poland]] and [[Lithuania]])
* [[March 5]]
** [[Custom Chief's Day]] ([[Vanuatu]])
** [[Public holidays in Azerbaijan#Other observances|Day of Physical Culture and Sport]] ([[Azerbaijan]])
** [[Learn from Lei Feng Day]] ([[China]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Absinthe Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Cheez Doodle Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[St Piran's Day]] ([[Cornwall]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[European Day of the Righteous]] ({{EUR}})
** [[Foundation Day (Norfolk Island)]]
** [[Independence Day (Ghana)]]
* [[March 7]]
** [[Liberation of Sulaymaniyah]] ([[Iraqi Kurdistan]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Crown Roast of Pork Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Teacher's Day (Albania)]]
* [[March 8]]
** [[International Women's Day]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Women's Day 2022 theme: Break the Bias |url=https://www.internationalwomensday.com/ |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=International Women's Day |language=en}}</ref>
*** [[International Women's Collaboration Brew Day]]
*** [[Mother's Day]] (primarily [[Eastern Europe]], [[Russia]], and the former [[Soviet bloc]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Peanut Cluster Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Potato Salad Day]] ([[United States]])
* [[March 9]]
** [[List of food days#March|National Crabmeat Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Meatball Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Teachers' Day]] ([[Lebanon]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Harriet Tubman Day]] ([[United States|United States of America]])
** [[Holocaust Memorial Days|Holocaust Remembrance Day]] ([[Bulgaria]])
** [[Hote Matsuri]] ([[Shiogama]], Japan)
** [[List of food days#March|National Blueberry Popover Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[National Mario Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[AIDS.gov|National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Tibetan Uprising Day]] ([[Tibetan independence movement]])
* [[March 11]]
** [[Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania]]
** [[Johnny Appleseed Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Moshoeshoe I#Legacy|Moshoeshoe Day]] ([[Lesotho]])
** [[List of food days#March|Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day (United States)]]
* [[March 12]]
** [[Arbor Day#China|Arbor Day (China)]]
** [[Arbor Day#Taiwan|Arbor Day (Taiwan)]]
** [[Aztec New Year]]
** [[Scouts' Day#Dates celebrated by country|Girl Scout Birthday]] ([[United States]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Baked Scallops Day  (United States)]]
** [[National Day (Mauritius)]]
** [[Arbor Day#North Macedonia|Tree Day]] ([[North Macedonia]])
** [[World Day Against Cyber Censorship]]
** [[Youth Day (Zambia)]]
* [[March 13]]
** [[Public holidays in Vatican City|Anniversary of the election of Pope Francis]] ([[Vatican City]])
** [[Kasuga Matsuri]] (Kasuga Grand Shrine, [[Nara, Nara|Nara]], Japan)
** [[L. Ron Hubbard's birthday]] ([[Scientology]])
** [[Public holidays in Iraq|Liberation of Duhok City]] ([[Iraqi Kurdistan]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Coconut Torte Day (United States)]]
* [[March 14]]
** [[National Multiple Sclerosis Society|Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week]] [[March 14]] to [[March 20]] ([[United States]])
** [[Pi Day]]
** [[White Day]] ([[Asia]])
* [[March 15]]
** [[Hōnen Matsuri]] ([[Japan]])
** [[International Day Against Police Brutality]]
** [[J. J. Roberts' Birthday]] ([[Liberia]])
** [[National Day (Hungary)]]
** [[World Consumer Rights Day]]
** [[World Contact Day]]
** [[World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film]]
** [[World Speech Day]]
** [[Youth Day (Palau)]]
* [[March 16]]
** [[Lithuanian book smugglers|Day of the Book Smugglers]] ([[Lithuania]])
** [[Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires]] ([[Latvia]])
** [[Public holidays in Iraq|Halabja Day]] ([[Iraqi Kurdistan]])
** [[Saint Urho's Day]] ([[Finnish Americans]] and [[Finnish Canadians]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[Children's Day#Bangladesh|Children's Day]] ([[Bangladesh]])
** [[Evacuation Day (Massachusetts)]] ([[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]])
** [[Saint Patrick's Day]] ([[Ireland]], [[Irish diaspora]])
* [[March 18]]
** [[Public holidays in Mexico|Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation]] ([[Mexico]])
** [[Flag Day (Aruba)]]
** [[Gallipoli Memorial Day]] ([[Turkey]])
** [[Men's and Soldiers' Day]] ([[Mongolia]])
** [[Teacher's Day]] ([[Syria]])
* [[March 19]]
** [[Kashubian Unity Day]] ([[Poland]])
** [[Flag flying days in Finland#Days on which flying the Finnish flag is an established custom|Minna Canth's Birthday]] ([[Finland]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Thelema#Holidays|Feast of the Supreme Ritual]] ([[Thelema]])
** [[Farm Animal Rights Movement#Great American Meatout|Great American Meatout]] (United States)
** [[International Day of Happiness]] ([[United Nations]])
** [[Independence Day (Tunisia)]]
** [[International Francophonie Day]] (''[[Organisation internationale de la Francophonie]]''), and its related observance:
*** [[UN French Language Day]] ([[United Nations]])
** [[Public holidays in Iraq|Liberation of Kirkuk City]] ([[Iraqi Kurdistan]])
** [[AIDS.gov#External links|National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day]] (United States)
** [[World Sparrow Day]]
* [[March 21]]
** [[Arbor Day#Portugal|Arbor Day]] (Portugal)
** [[Fiestas Patrias (Mexico)#Natalicio de Benito Juárez|Birth of Benito Juárez]], a [[Fiestas Patrias (Mexico)]]
** [[Harmony Day]] (Australia)
** [[Human Rights Day]] (South Africa)
** [[Independence Day (Namibia)]]
** [[International Colour Day]] ([[International observance]])
** [[International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination]] ([[International observance]])
** [[International Day of Forests]] ([[International observance]])
** [[Mother's Day]] (most of the [[Arab world]])
** [[Arbor Day#Lesotho|National Tree Planting Day]] (Lesotho)
** [[Truancy|Truant's Day]] (Poland, [[Faroe Islands]])
** [[World Down Syndrome Day]] ([[International observance]])
** [[World Poetry Day]] ([[International observance]])
** [[World Puppetry Day]] ([[International observance]])
** [[Youth Day]] (Tunisia)
* [[March 22]]
** [[Emancipation Day#Puerto Rico – March 22|Emancipation Day]] ([[Puerto Rico]])
** [[World Water Day]]
* [[March 23]]
** [[Day of the Sea]] ([[Bolivia]])
** [[Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day]] ([[Azerbaijan]])
** [[List of food days#March|National Chips and Dip Day (United States)]]
** [[Pakistan Day]] ([[Pakistan]])
** [[Promised Messiah Day]] ([[Ahmadiyya]])
** [[World Meteorological Day]]
* [[March 24]]
** [[Public holidays in the United States#Northern Mariana Islands|Commonwealth Covenant Day]] ([[Northern Mariana Islands]], United States)
** [[Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice]] ([[Argentina]])
** [[Day of National Revolution]] ([[Kyrgyzstan]])
** [[Óscar Romero|International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims]] ([[United Nations]])
** [[National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)]]
** [[Scientology holidays|Student Day]] ([[Scientology]])
** [[World Tuberculosis Day]]
* [[March 25]]
** [[Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants]] (San Marino)
** [[Cultural Workers Day]] (Russia)
** [[Empress Menen's Birthday]] ([[Rastafari]])
** [[EU Talent Day]] ([[European Union]])
** [[Feast of the Annunciation]] (Christianity), and its related observances:
*** [[Lady Day]] (United Kingdom) (see [[Quarter Days]])
*** [[International Day of the Unborn Child]] (international)
*** [[Mother's Day]] (Slovenia)
*** [[Waffle Day]] (Sweden)
** [[Freedom Day (Belarus)]]
** [[International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade]]
** [[International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members]] ([[United Nations General Assembly]])
** [[Maryland Day]] ([[Maryland]], United States)
** [[Revolution Day (Greece)]]
** [[Struggle for Human Rights Day]] (Slovakia)
** [[Tolkien Reading Day]] ([[Tolkien fandom]])
* [[March 26]]
** [[Independence Day (Bangladesh)]]
** [[Khordad Sal]] ([[Zoroastrianism]])
** [[Public holidays in Mali|Martyr's Day or Day of Democracy (Mali)]]
** [[Prince Kūhiō Day]] ([[Hawaii]], United States)
** [[Purple Day]] ([[Canada]] and [[United States]])
* [[March 27]]
** [[Armed Forces Day#Myanmar|Armed Forces Day]] ([[Myanmar]])
** [[International whisk(e)y day]]
** [[World Theatre Day]] ([[International observance|International]])
* [[March 28]]
** [[Sen no Rikyū|Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū]] ([[Schools of Japanese tea ceremony]])
** [[Serfs Emancipation Day]] ([[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]])
** [[Teachers' Day]] (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
* [[March 29]]
** [[Boganda Day]] ([[Central African Republic]])
** [[Commemoration of the 1947 Rebellion]] ([[Madagascar]])
** [[Day of the Young Combatant]] ([[Chile]])
** [[Youth Day#Taiwan|Youth Day (Taiwan)]]
* [[March 30]]
** [[Land Day]] ([[Palestine (region)|Palestine]])
** [[National Doctors' Day]] ([[United States]])
** [[Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day]] ([[Trinidad and Tobago]])
** [[List of food days#Global or international|World Idli Day]]
* [[March 31]]
** [[César Chávez Day]] (United States)
** [[Public holidays in the Federated States of Micronesia|Culture Day]] ([[Public holidays in the Federated States of Micronesia]])
** [[Public holidays in Azerbaijan#Other observances|Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis]] (Azerbaijan)
** [[Freedom Day (Malta)]]
** [[International Transgender Day of Visibility]]
** [[Public holidays in Thailand#National observances|King Nangklao Memorial Day]] (Thailand)
** [[List of awareness days#March|National Backup Day]] (United States)
** [[List of food days#March|National Clams on the Half Shell Day (United States)]]
** [[Thomas Mundy Peterson|Thomas Mundy Peterson Day]] ([[New Jersey]], United States)
** [[Transfer Day]] ([[United States Virgin Islands|US Virgin Islands]])