May 2026

Holidays and celebrations in Canada in May

• 1 FriInternational Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day
• Global Love Day
• National Child & Youth Mental Health Day
• National Doctors Day
• School Principals Day
• May Day
• No Pants Day
• Save The Rhino Day
• 2 SatInternational Harry Potter Day
• Scurvy Awareness Day
• World Tuna Day
• World Naked Gardening Day
• International Drone Day
• National Brothers and Sisters Day
• World Ankylosing Spondylitis Day
• 3 SunSun Day
• World Press Freedom Day
• World Laughter Day
• International Wild Koala Day
• 4 MonInternational Firefighters' Day
• Star Wars Day
• 5 TueWorld Asthma Day
• African World Heritage Day
• World Pulmonary Hypertension Day
• World Hand Hygiene Day
• Second Sunday of Easter
• 6 WedInternational No Diet Day
• 7 ThuWorld AIDS Orphans Day
• National Denim Day
• World Password Day
• 8 FriWorld Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
• VE-Day
• White Lotus Day
• Iris Day
• 9 SatWorld Fair Trade Day
• 10 SunMother's Day
• 12 TueCannes Film Festival
• International Nurses Day
• 13 WedCannes Film Festival
• World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Cinema
• 14 ThuCannes Film Festival
• 15 FriInternational Day of Families
• Cannes Film Festival
• International Climate Protection Day
• The International Conscientious Objectors' Day
• 16 SatCannes Film Festival
• 17 SunInternational Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
• Cannes Film Festival
• World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
• World Baking Day
• 18 MonVictoria DayNewfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon
• 18 MonInternational Museum Day
• Cannes Film Festival
• 19 TueCannes Film Festival
• 20 WedCannes Film Festival
• World Bee Day
• World Metrology Day
• Bike to Work Day
• World Traumatologist Day
• 21 ThuGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day
• Cannes Film Festival
• International Tea Day
• 22 FriInternational Day for Biological Diversity
• Cannes Film Festival
• World Goth Day
• 23 SatWorld Turtle Day
• Cannes Film Festival
• 24 SunBike Day
• 25 MonNational Patriots' DayQuebec
• Towel Day
• Geek Pride Day
• 28 ThuBrunettes day
• Saint Augustine's Day
• 29 FriInternational Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
• 30 SatInternational Day of Potato
• 31 SunWorld No Tobacco Day