Social Media Content Calendar
VPE Communications compiled this social media calendar that includes key opportunities for social posts with an emphasis on the Latino community as well as some key general market opportunities. This calendar is not intended to be all encompassing of every possible social media opportunity and is meant as a guide that is subject to updates.
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR 2023
January
1 – New Year’s Day
6 – Día de los Reyes Magos
7 – Juan Gabriel’s birthday
16 – Martin Luther King Day
22 – Lunar New Year
ALL MONTH
- National Menudo Month
- National Menudo Month
February
2
- Día de la Candelaria
- Groundhog Day
12 – President Lincoln’s Birthday
14 – Valentine’s Day
17 -Vicente Fernández’s birthday
20 – President’s Day, Washington’s Birthday
21 – Mardi Gras
22 – National Margarita Day
24 – Flag Day (Mexico)
March
6 – Anniversary of the LA Walkouts
12 – Day Light Saving (start)
17 – St. Patrick’s Day
21 – Benito Juárez’s birthday
23 – National Tamal Day
31 – Cesar Chavez’s birthday & Cesar Chavez Day
31 – Anniversary of Selena Quintanilla’s death
APRIL
1 – April Fools’ Day
9 – Easter
10
- Dolores Huerta’s Birthday
- Anniversary of Chavez Ravine
- Anniversary of Emiliano
- Zapata’s Death
11 – National Pet Day
14 – Anniversary of Méndez v.
Westminster Board of Education Ruling
16 – Selena Quintanilla’s Birthday
19 – Youth Homelessness Matters
Day
22 – Earth Day
30 – Día de los Niños
ALL MONTH
- Community Service Month
- Fair Housing Month
- Earth Month
- Celebrate Diversity Month
- National Volunteer Month
- Arts & Culture Month in LA
MAy
1
- Immigrants’ Rights Day
- Día del Trabajador
- May Day
5 – Cinco de Mayo
10 – Mother’s Day (Mexico)
14 – Mother’s Day
22 – Harvey Milk Day
29 – Memorial Day
ALL MONTH
- National Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- Mental Health Month
June
3 – Anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots
4 – National Cheese Day
11 – Race Unity Day
14 – Flag Day
12 – Loving Day
18- Father’s Day
19 – Juneteenth
All Month
- Pride Month
- AIDS Awareness Month
- School Graduation
JULY
4 – Independence Day
6 – Frida Kahlo’s Birthday
13 – Anniversary of Frida Kahlo’s death
23 – Parents’ Day
24 – National Tequila Day
25 – Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
26 – Disability Independence Day
august
9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
17 – National Non-Profit day
19 – World Humanitarian Day
20 – National Latina Day
26 – Women’s Equality Day
28 – Anniversary of Juan Gabriel’s death
29 – Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam war
september
4 – Labor Day
10 – Grandparents’ Day
15 – Start of Hispanic Heritage Month & Independence Day for
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
16
- Mexican Independence Day
- Chile Independence Day
17 – Citizenship Day
22 – National Native American Day
23 – Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
october
4 – National Taco Day
9 – Indigenous People’s Day
10
- World Mental Health Day
- Grito de Yara (Cuba)
- World Homelessness Day
11 – National Coming Out Day
15 – End of Hispanic Heritage Month
19 – World Humanitarian Action Day
28 – National Immigrants Day
31 – Halloween
ALL MONTH
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- LGBT History Month
november
1
- Día de los Muertos
- Fernando Valenzuela’s Birthday
5 – Daylight Saving ends
11 – Veterans Day
13 – World Kindness Day
15 – National Philanthropy Day
16 – International Day for Tolerance
18 – National Housing Day
20 – Transgender Day of Remembrance
23 – Thanksgiving
28 – Giving Tuesday
ALL MONTH
- National Native American
- Heritage Month
- National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month
december
1 – World AIDS Day
3 – International Day for People with
Disabilities
7
- Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
- Start of Hanukkah (Ends 12/15)
8 – National Concha Day
9 – National Pastry Day
10 – International Human Rights Day
12
- Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe
- Anniversary of Vicente Fernández’ death
16 – Start of Las Posadas (Ends 12/24)
18 – International Migrants Day
24 – Christmas Eve
25 – Christmas Day
26 – Start of Kwanzaa (Ends 1/1)
31 – New Year’s Eve
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