April

April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days.

April Events

Monthlong events in April

• Chocolate Eaters Month
• Grass Month
• Pets Are Wonderful Month
• Uh-huh Month
• Cancer Control Month
• Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Freedom Shrine Month
• International Guitar Month
• Keep America Beautiful Month
• Mathematics Education Month
• Multicultural Communication Month
• National Anxiety Month
• National Garden Month
• National Home Improvement Month
• National Humor Month
• National Occupational Therapy Month
• National Welding Month
• Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month
• Philatelic Societies Month
• VD Awareness Month
• National Food Month
• Stress Awareness Month
• Alcohol Awareness Month
• Holy Humor Month
• International Amateur Radio Month
• International Twit Award Month
• Month of the Young Child
• National Florida Tomato Month
• National Knuckles Down Month
• National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Education and Awareness Month
• National Woodworking Month
• Sea Cadet Month
• Thai Heritage Month
• Sports Eye Safety Month
• Community Services Month (California)
• Listening Awareness Month
• Autism Awareness Month

Weeklong events in April

1st Week in April

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• Medic Alert Week
• Cherry Blossom Festival
• Publicity Stunt Week
• National Birthparents Week
• Week of the Young Child
• Straw Hat Week
• National Bake Week (begins 1st Mon)
• Consider Christianity Week
• National Reading a Road Map Week

2nd Week in April

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• Be Kind to Animals Week
• Masters Golf Tournament
• National Medical Laboratory Week
• Private Property Week (10th-16th)
• National Library Week
• Harmony Week
• National Garden Week
• TV Turn-Off Week
• National Guitar Week
• National Building Safety Week
• National Home Safety Week

3rd Week in April

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• National Police Week
• Boys and Girls Club Week
• National Coin Week
• Bike Safety Week
• National Bubblegum Week
• Pan American Week
• National Week of the Ocean
• National Crime Victims? Rights Week
• National Volunteer Week
• National Adult Films Week

Last Week in April

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• Forest Week
• National Lingerie Week
• Canada-US Goodwill Week
• Big Brothers/Sisters Appreciation Week
• Consumer Protection Week
• National TV-Free Week
• Jewish Heritage Week
• Keep America Beautiful Week
• National YMCA Week
• Professional Secretaries Week
• Intergenerational Week
• Reading Is Fun Week
• Egg Salad Week
• Teacher Appreciation Week (begins Last Mon)

A Week in April

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• Astronomy Week (determined by 1st Quarter Moon)

April Movable Daily Holidays

1st Sunday

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• Set-Your Clock-Forward-Day
• Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States; turn your clock ahead at 2:00 a.m.
• Budoha Day (Hawaii)
• Vesak (Buddha's Birthday)

1st Saturday

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• Saturday Market Day (Oregon)

1st Saturday before 5th

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• Tax Saturday (UK)

1st Thursday

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• Glarus Festival (Switzerland)

1st Friday

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• Student Government Day (Massachusetts)

Friday after 1st

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• Arbor Day (Apache, Navajo, Coconino, Mohave, Yavapai; Arizona)

2nd Friday

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• Audubon Day

3rd Sunday & Monday

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• Sechselauten (Six Ringing Festival; Switzerland)

3rd Monday

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• Patriot's Day (Maine, Massachusetts)
• Boston Marathon

Thursday between 19th & 26th

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• First Day of Summer (Iceland)

Saturday nearest St. George's Day (23rd)

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• Peppercorn Day (Bermuda)

Monday nearest Feast Day of St. George (23rd)

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• St. George's Day (Newfoundland)

Sunday after 1st full moon after vernal equinox following Passover

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• Lambri (Bright Day; Greece)

3rd Monday

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• Patriots' Day (Maine, Massachusetts)

4th Monday

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• Fast Day (New Hampshire)

4th Thursday

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• Take Our Daughters to Work Day

4th Weekend

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• Just Pray No weekend

Last Monday

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• Confederate Memorial Day (Alabama, Mississippi)

Last Friday

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• Arbor Day
• Bird Day

Wednesday of Last Full Week

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• Professional Secretaries Day

April Indeterminate Holidays

Full Moon Day of 6th Buddhist month (@ Apr/May)

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• Vesak

Sun enters Aries

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• Solar New Year (Southeast Asia)
• aka Thingyan (Burma)
• aka Songkran (Thailand)

10th through 15th Day of 2nd lunar month

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• Paro Tsechu (Bhutan)

During planting season (@ Apr/May)

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• Tyi Wara (Mali)

Early April to late July (every 4 years)

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• Summer Olympics begin

Late April or May

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• Alp Aufzug (Switzerland)

Before 1st rainfall (@ Apr/May)

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• Bobo Masquerade (Burkina Faso)

Sometime in April

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• World Championship Cow Chip Throwing Contest
• Palm Sunday - Christian
• Palm Sunday - Armenian Christian
• Good Friday - Christian
• Easter - Christian
• Pesach (Passover) - Jewish