When Is National Hug And Run Day?

About Hug And Run Day

Is It Hug And Run Day Today?

It's Hug And Run day on the 3rd of May.

Hug And Run Day' is by our calculation on: May the 3rd. The first time we detected Hug And Run Day was the 3rd of May 2015 and the most recent detection of references to Hug And Run Day was 3 years, 7 months ago.

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There were many celebrations relating to national holdiays written about on social media that our algorithms picked up, on the 3rd of May. In total we detected 89 total unique days being shared such as Hug Day which had 11,402 people talking about it, or Power Hug Day having 3,913 tweets. A random sample of which are shown below.

National days on the 3rd of May

How Is The Date For Hug And Run Day Calculated?

The day shown for 'National Hug And Run Day' is based off how much chitter-chatter and buzz there was on May 3, 2015 across social media making references to 'Hug And Run Day'. Our algorithms examine all of the references to National Days across social media and updates whatnationaldayisit.com hourly, with our homepage displaying the current national day, including others such as: Honesty, Hugging or Hugs Day. This crowdsourcing of data method to assess the National Hug And Run Day date is used as opposed to being connected with any Government sacntioned lists :D Hurrah for democracy by concensus!

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Can I Register Hug And Run Day?

We don't have an international authority or governmental remit to declare any officially celebrated "national Hug And Run day". We only aim to programatically reflect what 'National Day' it is based of what The Internet Says It Is. We believe this is much more fun as it reflects the nature of how the most amusing / interesting national days are often created organically and grow based off popular social trends and sharing, as such we don't add new days to our database unless they are organically observed on social media.

Is it National Hug And Run Day Everywhere?

Yes? No.. Sort of | Maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What's really intersting is how whilst some National Days like National Daughters Day are seemingly celebrated internationally irrespective of geography, some very popular days (That often become the No. 1 National Day on our homepage) are in fact locally very specific and are offical holidays celebrated on a Country's national calendar. Take National Rambutan Day for instance, Rambutan is a popular Souteast Asian fruit and not seen so much in the UK, Europe or the USA. Some regionally specific trends subsequently become immensely popular internationally and worldwide, partly fuelled by widely shared 'National Days', National Pabebe Wave Day being one such example.

Hang On, It Was National Hug And Run Day Already This Year..!?

Yes, this is strangely enough entirely possible. The date shown for National Hug And Run Day can change, if for instance several hundred people tweeted about Hug And Run Day in early April, then in May a few thousand people tweeted about Hug And Run day, then the date shown for National Hug And Run Day, could come up twice :D

We have also detected mentions of Hug And Run day on;

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