February 2026 Calendar with Holidays: February 2026 is packed with significant events, starting with the Union Budget on the 1st, shaping economic policy. The Indian Coast Guard also celebrates its day. The month highlights science with National Science Day on the 28th, honoring CV Raman’s Nobel-winning discovery. Social reform and global awareness days also fill this busy period.
Key days and events in February 2026
Feb. 1 to 7: International Development Week
Feb. 1: Union Budget, Indian Coast Guard Day
Feb. 2: World Wetlands Day, Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
Feb. 3: National Golden Retriever Day (US)
Feb. 4: World Cancer Day, National Day of Sri Lanka
Feb. 6: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, World War Orphans Day
Feb. 8: National Opera Day (US)
Feb. 9: Baba Amte’s Death Anni ..
eb. 10: National Deworming Day, World Pulses Day, Safer Internet Day
Feb. 11: World Day of the Sick, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Feb. 12: Darwin Day, National Productivity Day, Birth anniversaries of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and Abraham Lincoln
Feb. 13: World Radio Day, Sarojini Naidu Birth Anniversary
Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day, World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
Feb. 15: Mahashivratri
Feb. 18 to 27: Taj Mahotsav
Feb. 19: World Anthropology Day, Beginning of Ramadan (date can vary)
Feb. 20: Arunachal Pradesh Foundation Day, Mizoram Foundation Day, World Day of Social Justice
Feb. 21: International Mother Language Day
Feb. 22: World Thinking Day
Feb. 23: World Peace and Understanding Day
Feb. 24: Central Excise Day
Feb. 26: Veer Savarkar’s Death Anniversary
Feb. 27: World NGO Day