Key wellbeing dates December 2026

Looking to support a cause, raise awareness, or plan your wellbeing initiatives around key dates in your workplace? Below you’ll find a regularly updated list of health and wellbeing charity days, weeks, and month-long observances, handily organised by country.

World+

Month-long health awareness themes

None listed

Specific Days and Weeks

1 December | World AIDS Day
3 December | International Day of Persons with Disabilities
5 December | International Volunteer Day
10 December | World Human Rights Day
12 December | International Universal Health Coverage Day
18 December | International Migrants Day
20 December | International Human Solidarity Day
21 December | World Meditation Day
27 December | International Day of Epidemic Preparedness

New Zealand+

Month-long health awareness themes

None listed

Specific Days and Weeks

None listed

Australia+

Month-long health awareness themes

Decembeard/Decembhair
No Gender December

Specific Days and Weeks

1 – 7 December | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness Week

United Kingdom+

Month-long health awareness themes

Decembeard

Specific Days and Weeks

1 December | Giving Tuesday
2 – 8 December | National Grief Awareness Week
12 December | National Workplace Day of Remembrance
19 December – 3 January | Festival of Winter Walks

United States+

Month-long health awareness themes

National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

Specific Days and Weeks

1 December | Eat a Red Apple Day
1 December | National Day of Giving
1 – 7 December | National IBD (Crohn’s & Colitis) Awareness Week
6 – 12 December | National Handwashing Awareness Week
7- 11 December | National Influenza Vaccination Week
28 December | National Call a Friend Day

Germany+

Month-long health awareness themes

None listed

Specific Days and Weeks

6 December | Nikolaustag (St. Nicholas Day)

Spain+

Month-long health awareness themes

None listed

Specific Days and Weeks

6 December | Día de la Constitución (Constitution Day)
13 December | La Marató de TV3 (Annual Telethon)
18 December | Día Nacional de la Esclerosis Múltiple