Category: Health
Wear Red Day around the world in 2026
Image by Sharon McCutcheon , from Unsplash. CC0

About Wear Red Day

How long until Wear Red Day?
Wear Red Day .
Dates of Wear Red Day
2027 Various Feb 5
USAFri, Feb 5Observances Holiday
United KingdomFri, Feb 5Observances Holiday
2026 Various Feb 6
USAFri, Feb 6Observances Holiday
United KingdomFri, Feb 6Observances Holiday
2025 Various Feb 7
USAFri, Feb 7Observances Holiday
United KingdomFri, Feb 7Observances Holiday
2024 Various Feb 2
USAFri, Feb 2Observances Holiday
United KingdomFri, Feb 2Observances Holiday
2023 Various Feb 3
USAFri, Feb 3Observances Holiday
United KingdomFri, Feb 3Observances Holiday
Summary
Pull out your maroons, vermilions and burgundies, because today is National Wear Red Day, raising awareness for cardiovascular disease.
Where is Wear Red Day observed in 2026?
USAFeb 6

Wear Red Day is celebrated each year on the first Friday in February, to bring greater attention to heart disease as a leading cause of death.


In the US, The Heart Truth is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Designed to warn women of their top health threat, The Heart Truth created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002.

Nearly 45% of women over the age of 20 are living with some form of cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

In the United Kingdom, it is organised by the Children's Heart Surgery Fund to raise awareness of congenital heart disease.

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