There’s a lot of confusion out there about when National Love Day is and what holiday it is (and isn’t). As advocates for celebrating your romantic relationship as often as possible, we wanted to help clear up that confusion.
Today, we’ll talk about which holiday is the real National Love Day, when it happens every year, how you can make sure you always remember it, and some key details about the holiday.
The Many Names of National Love Day
Most people who are searching to learn about National Love Day are actually looking for a holiday called Global Love Day. Founded by “The Love Foundation” (a non-profit promoting unconditional love), this holiday is often confused with other holidays like National Love People Day, Sweetest Day, and even Valentine’s Day.
More straightforward, National Love Day is the same holiday as Global Love Day and is not any of the other holidays mentioned. Those other holidays do celebrate love, but they are different holidays.
National Love Day (as Global Love Day) has been recognized by nearly 1,000 official proclamations from state Governors, Mayors, and City Councils all across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
When is National Love Day?
National Love Day takes place on May 1st every year. Often, you’ll see claims that the holiday is celebrated on September 30th or April 23rd, but those are actually National Love People Day (a different holiday) and National Lover’s Day (a different holiday), respectively.
How to Always Remember National Love Day
If you don’t have the free LoveTrack app, you have got to get it. The LoveTrack app gives you free reminders of every important couples holiday there is, including National Love Day (and on the right day).
In addition, the app gives you cute ideas to celebrate National Love Day so that you don’t just remember the holiday, but you truly get to experience it.
LoveTrack is 100% free and is available on iOS as well as on Android.
Important Details About National Love Day
Lastly, we want to share some key details about the holiday that you’ll certainly need to be aware of in order to celebrate and enjoy properly.
National Love Day isn’t just for romantic couples.
While our primary focus in sharing this information is for romantic couples, the reality is that National Love Day is designed to celebrate all love in the world. This includes love for your friends, your family, things that matter to you, and even people around the world you don’t know personally. Generally, it’s celebrated by romantic couples, but we just wanted to share the full breadth.
National Love Day was officially launched in 2004.
It’s rare with romantic couples holidays that we know exactly when they started. Typically, they just seem to happen and slowly gain popularity. With National Love Day, we know that it was officially launched in 2004 and was quickly followed up by support and affirmation from organizations and governments around the world.
While Global Love Day is the official name, National Love Day is wildly more popular.
As we touched on earlier, the actual official name of this holiday is Global Love Day. However, at least in the U.S., the holiday is much more popularly known as National Love Day. As such, we will continue to call it National Love Day, but we wanted to make sure you had a complete understanding of the holiday.