June 2025 Events Celebrations & Special Days
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Events, celebrations, awareness events, saint's days, annual campaigns, major sporting events - UK and global festivities happening in June 2025.
Summer's here, the days are getting longer, and June is the month when we celebrate Father's Day, World Oceans Day and World Giraffe Day.
In fact in the northern hemisphere we celebrate midsummer, while it is midwinter in the southern hemisphere.
Here are the key dates and events happening this June in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as around the world.
World Milk Day
1st Jun 2025
An international celebration of milk and the milk industry. It was established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to recognize the importance of milk as a global food.
Global Day of Parents
1st Jun 2025
Created in 2012, Global Day of Parents provides an opportunity to appreciate all parents for their selfless commitment to children and their lifelong sacrifice towards nurturing this relationship.
Child Safety Week
2nd Jun to 8th Jun 2025
Organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust to promote safety issues for children.
World Bicycle Day
3rd Jun 2025
This UN created day celebrated the bicycle as a simple, affordable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transportation. The day is celebrated globally by organising bike rides at a local and national level.
Sausage Roll Day
5th Jun 2025
A day dedicated to the tasty treat that is the Sausage roll. Whether you like to make you own or purchase them ready made, today you must eat a sausage roll! (Vegetarian sausage rolls do count).
World Environment Day
5th Jun 2025
The United Nations' principal event for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment.
Eid ul-Adha
6th Jun to 7th Jun 2025
This Muslim festival remembers the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son when God ordered him to. It is celebrated by prayer and visiting family and friends.
Great Big Green Week
7th Jun to 15th Jun 2025
The Great Big Green Week is the UK's biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature, celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand up for nature and fight climate change.
World Ocean Day
8th Jun 2025
Event organised by The Ocean Project to raise awareness of the oceans and the living creatures that make their home there.
– Ocean-Themed Activities for World Ocean Day
Healthy Eating Week
9th Jun to 13th Jun 2025
Organised by the British Nutrition Foundation, this week aims to connect people, food and science and provide impartial, evidence-based information to people so they can adopt healthy, sustainable diets - for life.
The King's Official Birthday
14th Jun 2025
Celebrations of the monarch's official birthday are held in June across the Commonwealth, and include the Trooping of the Colour in London.
– Wordsearch About King Charles III
Father's Day
15th Jun 2025
Father's Day is the celebration of fathers in the UK, the US and most of Europe and many other parts of the world. This date was chosen for Father's Day when it was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd in the US.
– Father's Day Colouring Pictures
Juneteenth
19th Jun 2025
Juneteenth commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. It has been recognised as a federal holiday in the US since 2021.
Make Music Day
21st Jun 2025
Celebrates music in all its forms and the impact it's had on the world and the human spirit. So spend the day playing and listening to music.
Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
21st Jun 2025
This day is the first day of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere.
More About The Summer Solstice
World Giraffe Day
21st Jun 2025
Annual event to raise support, create awareness and shed light on the challenges giraffe face in the wild.
Winter Solstice (Southern Hemisphere)
21st Jun 2025
The winter solstice represents the beginning of the astronomical winter and is the shortest day - the day with the least daylight.
More About The Winter Solstice
Make Music Day
21st Jun 2025
Also known and World Music Day or Fete de la Musique, is an annual music celebration where citizens and residents are urged to play music outside in their neighborhoods or in public spaces and parks.
International Women in Engineering Day
23rd Jun to 30th Jun 2025
An international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and encourage women to study science and to go into the science, engineering, mathematics and computing industries.
World Refill Day
24th Jun 2025
World Refill Day is a global public awareness campaign to prevent plastic pollution, help people live with less waste and help make single-use plastic a thing of the past.
International Fairy Day
24th Jun 2025
This is a day to appreciate the magical, mystical beaty of fairies, and a celebration of fairyfolk and fae.
National Writing Day
25th Jun 2025
A day for everybody across the UK to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), unleash their imagination and make their voices heard.
Wimbledon Fortnight
30th Jun to 13th Jul 2025
This annual international tennis championship is held in Wimbledon, UK. The top tennis players from around the world gather to take part in one of tennis' most prestigious tournaments.
Here are some more important events that are coming soon.