Key wellbeing dates November 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

  • Lung Cancer Awareness Month
  • Men’s Health Awareness Month/Movember
  • Transgender Awareness Month

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 1 November | World Vegan Day  
  • 2 – 6 November | International Stress Awareness Week  
  • 8 November | Diwali  
  • 8 November | World Radiography Day  
  • 9 November | Social Media Kindness Day  
  • 10 November | World Immunization Day  
  • 12 November | World Pneumonia Day  
  • 13 November | World Kindness Day  
  • 14 November | World Diabetes Day  
  • 17 November | World Prematurity Day  
  • 18 – 24 November | World Antibiotic Awareness Week 
  • 19 November | International Men’s Day 
  • 19 November | Oceans of Plastic  
  • 19 November | World Toilet Day 
  • 18 November | World COPD Awareness Day 
  • 20 November | Transgender Day of Remembrance  
  • 20 November | World Children’s Day 
  • 20 November | World Children’s Day  
  • 21 November | International Survivors of Suicide Day  
  • 25 November | International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women  
  • 25 November | International White Ribbon Day 
  • 25 November – 10 December | 16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence 

New Zealand+

Month-long health awareness themes

  • Diabetes Action Month 
  • Movember and Men’s Health Month

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 19 – 25 October | Play Week 
  • 6 November | Gumboot 
  • 25 November | White Ribbon Day  

Australia+

Month-long health awareness themes

  • 9K Per Day 
  • Asbestos Awareness Month 
  • Lung Cancer Awareness Month 
  • Movember 
  • NICU Awareness Month 

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 9 – 15 November | National Recycling Week  
  • 11 November | Remembrance Day 
  • 23 – 29 November | Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Awareness Week 
  • 22 – 29 November | National Social Inclusion Week 
  • 25 November | White Ribbon Day 

United Kingdom+

Month-long health awareness themes

  • COPD Awareness Month
  • Lung Cancer Awareness Month
  • Movember 
  • Mouth Cancer Action Month
  • Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month 

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 4 November | National Stress Awareness Day  
  • 8 November | Diwali  
  • 18 November | Blue Wednesday 
  • 10 November | Social Media Kindness Day  
  • 15 – 21 November | Road Safety Week 
  • 16 November | Odd Socks Day  
  • 16 – 20 November | Anti-Bullying Week  
  • 16 – 20 November | UK Malnutrition Awareness Week 
  • 19 November | Carers Rights Day  

United States+

Month-long health awareness themes

  • Bladder Health Month 
  • COPD Awareness Month 
  • Diabetic Eye Disease Month 
  • Eye Donor Awareness Month 
  • Lung Cancer Awareness Month 
  • Movember/Men’s Health Awareness Month 
  • National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month 
  • National Diabetes Month 
  • National Epilepsy Awareness Month 
  • National Family Caregivers Month 
  • National Gratitude Month 
  • National Healthy Skin Month 
  • National Military Family Month 
  • National Hospice and Palliative Care Month 
  • National Stomach Cancer Awareness Month 
  • Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month 
  • Prematurity Awareness Month 
  • Transgender Awareness Month 

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 1 November | National Brush Day  
  • 4 November | National Stress Awareness Day 
  • 11 November | Veterans Day 
  • 13 – 19 November | Transgender Awareness Week  
  • 15 – 21 November | Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week  
  • 16 – 20 November | American Education Week  
  • 22 – 28 November | GERD Awareness Week 
  • 19 November | The Great American Smokeout  
  • 20 November | Transgender Day of Remembrance  
  • 21 November | National Adoption Day  
  • 26 November | National Family Health History Day  
  • 27 November | National Day of Listening

Germany+

Month-long health awareness themes

  • Lungenkrebsmonat November 
  • Diabetes-Monat November
  • Movember – Aktionsmonat für Männergesundheit 

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 1 – 30 November | Herzwochen   
  • 7 November | Magen-Darm-Tag 

Spain+

Month-long health awareness themes

  • Noviembre Azul – Mes de la Concienciación sobre el Cáncer de Próstata y la Salud Masculina 
  • Mes de la Concienciación sobre el Cáncer de Pulmón 
  • Mes de la Diabetes 

Specific Days and Weeks

  • 1 November | Día de Todos los Santos (All Saints’ Day)  
  • 9 November | Día de la Almudena (Celebrates Virgin of Almudena, Patron Saint of Madrid)  
  • 21 November | Día Nacional de la Espina Bífida  

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