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Mother’s Day: 2020 dates worldwide

Other countries, other customs. And so Mother's Day is not celebrated universally on the second Sunday in May, as it is in Austria. Here are the most important dates:
  • 9 February (second Sunday in February: Norway
  • 2 March: Georgia
  • 8 March (International Women's Day): Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Laos, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Rumania, Russia, Belorussia
  • 21 March (first day of spring): Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel (Israeli Arabs only), Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates
  • 22 March (fourth Sunday in Lent): UK, Ireland
  • 25 March (Annunciation Day): Slovenia
  • 7 April: Armenia
  • 23 April (first new moon after Nepalese New Year): Nepal
  • 3 May (first Sunday in May: Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal, Spain, Hungary
  • 10 May: El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico
  • 10 May (second Sunday in May): Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Curaçao, Denmark, Germany, Ecuador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, India, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Canada, Columbia, Croatia, Cuba, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Austria, Pakistan, Papua-New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Zambia, Samoa, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Czech Republic, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, Cyprus
  • 15 May: Paraguay
  • 26 May: Poland
  • 27 May: Bolivia
  • 30 May: Nicaragua
  • 31 May (last Sunday in May): Algeria, Dominican Republic, French Antilles, Haiti, Madagascar, Morocco, Mauritius, Sweden, Senegal, Tunisia, France
  • 1 June (Mother's and Children's Day): Mongolia
  • 14 June (second Sunday in June): Luxembourg
  • 26 June: Kenya
  • 12 August (birthday of Queen Sirikit): Thailand
  • 15 August (Assumption Day): Costa Rica
  • 12 October (second Monday in October): Malawi
  • 18 October (third Sunday in October): Argentina
  • 8 December (Immaculate Conception): Panama
  • 10 December (2 weeks before Christmas): Serbia
  • 22 December: Indonesia

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