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 2024
January
1 – New Year’s Day
6 – Día de los Reyes Magos
7 – Juan Gabriel’s birthday
15 – Martin Luther King Day
23 – Lunar New Year
31 – Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
ALL MONTH
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- National Menudo Month
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February
2
- Día de la Candelaria
- Groundhog Day
10 – Lunar New Year
12 – President Lincoln’s Birthday
13 – Mardi Gras
14 – Valentine’s Day
17 -Vicente Fernández’s birthday/ Random Acts of Kindness Day
19 – President’s Day
20 -Washington’s Birthday/World Day of Social Justice
22 – National Margarita Day
24 – Flag Day (Mexico)
ALL MONTH
- Black History Month
March
2 – National Read Across America Day
6 – Anniversary of the LA Walkouts
10 – Day Light Saving (start)
14 – Pi Day
17 – St. Patrick’s Day
18 – Global Recycling Day
21 – Benito Juárez’s birthday
23 – National Tamal Day/National Puppy Day
31
- Cesar Chavez’s birthday & Cesar Chavez Day
- Anniversary of Selena Quintanilla’s death
- International Transgender Day of Visibility
APRIL
1 – April Fools’ Day
3 – National Walking 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
15 – World Art Day
16 – Selena Quintanilla’s Birthday
19 – Youth Homelessness Matters Day
22 – Earth Day
23 – World Book Day
26 – Lesbian Visibility Day
28 – National Superhero Day
29 – International Dance Day
30 – Día del Niño
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
- National College Decision Day
5 – Cinco de Mayo
6 – National Nurses’ Day
7 – National Teachers’ Day
10 – Mother’s Day (Mexico)
12 – Mother’s Day
22 – Harvey Milk Day
27 – 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
8 – National Best Friends Day
11 – Race Unity Day
14 – Flag Day
12 – Loving Day
16 – Father’s Day
19 – Juneteenth
20 – Summer Solstice
21 – World Music Day
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
17 – World Emoji Day
23 – Parents’ Day
24 – National Tequila Day/National Cousins Day
25 – Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)/National Intern Day
26 – Disability Independence Day
31 – National Avocado Day
august
4 – National Sisters’ Day
8 – National Cat Day
9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous People/Book Lovers Day
17 – National Non-Profit day
19 – World Humanitarian Day
20 – National Latina Day/National Radio Day
26 – Women’s Equality Day/National Dog Day
28 – Anniversary of Juan Gabriel’s death
29 – Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam war
30 – National Beach Day
september
2 – Labor Day
6 – Read a Book Day
8 – 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
23 – Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
27 – Native American Day
30 – International Podcast Day
ALL MONTH
- Native American Heritage Month
october
1 – International Coffee Day
4
- National Taco Day
- World Animal Day
- World Smile Day
5 – Latina Equal Pay Day*
10
- World Mental Health Day
- Grito de Yara (Cuba)
- World Homelessness Day
11 – National Coming Out Day
14 – Indigenous People’s Day
15 – End of Hispanic Heritage Month
17 – Black Poetry Day
19 – World Humanitarian Action Day
28 – National Immigrants Day
31 – Halloween
ALL MONTH
- Global Diversity Awareness Month
- National Disability Awareness Month
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- LGBT History Month
november
1 – Fernando Valenzuela’s Birthday
2- Dia de los Muertos
3 – Daylight Saving ends
5 – Election Day
8 – National First-Gen Day/ STEM Day
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
21 – National Entrepreneurs Day
28 – Thanksgiving
29 – Opt Outside Day/Black Friday
30 – Small Business Saturday
ALL MONTH
- National Native American & Alaska Native Heritage Month
december
1 – World AIDS Day
3 – Giving Tuesday/International Day for People with Disabilities
5 – International Volunteer Day
7 – Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
8 – National Concha Day
9 – National Pastry Day
10 – International Human Rights Day
12 – Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe
16 – Start of Las Posadas (Ends 12/24)
18 – International Migrants Day
21 – Start of Winter
24 – Christmas Eve
25 – Christmas Day/Start of Hanukkah (end Jan. 2, 2025)
26 – Start of Kwanzaa (Ends 1/1)
31 – New Year’s Eve