Important Days in August 2025: National and International Special Days List

Important Days & Dates in August 2025:

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar. The length of the month of August is 31 days. August is usually abbreviated as ‘Aug’. It precedes the month of September and succeeds the month of July in the Gregorian calendar.

It was earlier known in a different name in Latin but in 8 BC, it was renamed in honour of ‘Roman Emperor Augustus’. August is also one of the seven months in the Gregorian Calendar that has 31 days other than January, March, May, July, October and December.

There are many important days and events that are observed in India on a national level and international and world level in the month of August.

Some of the notable important days of national and international importance in August 2025 include Onam, Raksha Bandhan, Indian Independence Day, World Photography Day, World Humanitarian Day, World Mosquito Day, Sadbhavana Diwas, International Youth Day, World Lake Day, Friendship Day, Hiroshima Day, Nagasaki Day, National Handloom Day in India, Quit India Movement Day, Madras Day, National Sports Day in India, Telugu Language Day, etc.

Remembering the Important Days in August 2025 is imperative for students and government competitive exam aspirants preparing for Bank, Intelligence Bureau, Insurance, SSC, TNPSC, Railways, TNUSRB SI/PC Police and other PSC and Central Govt. Exams. Aspirants must therefore be minutely aware of the list of important national and international days of August month in 2025.

In Bank and government competitive exams, there will typically questions based on the ‘Important Days and Dates’ topic in the Current Affairs / General Awareness section. Here in this article, Veranda RACE has compiled a comprehensive list of important days and dates in August month in 2025 that will help in the preparation for various Bank and Government competitive exams, including UPSC, SSC, NDA, CDS, TNPSC, Bank, Insurance, TNUSRB, Karnataka PSC, Kerala PSC, Intelligence Bureau, UPSC EPFO, UPSC CAPF, Kerala PSC LDC, etc.

List of Important Days & Dates in August 2025

Veranda RACE’s erudite R&D team with years of teaching experience and subject matter experts in various exams has prepared an exhaustive list of details about the important days and dates of national and important events in August 2025 for the aspirants preparing for various exams in 2025 like IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, IBPS SO, SBI PO, SSC CGL, SSC MTS, SSC JE, RRB NTPC, RRB Technician, SSC CHSL, TNPSC Group 1, TNPSC Group 4, TNPSC Group 2, TNPSC Group 2A, UPSC CSE, UPSC CAPF, CDS, NDA, TNUSRB SI/PC Police, Intelligence Bureau (IB) ACIO, IB Security Assistant, UPSC EPFO, NIACL AO, NICL AO, etc.

Check out the detailed list given below containing all the important days and dates in August 2025 here from the Best Bank, SSC, TNPSC, TNUSRB, Railways and Karnataka PSC Coaching Institute in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka & Puducherry in 2025:

1 August – World Wide Web Day

World Wide Web (WWW) Day is annually celebrated on 1 August.

This day is observed to commemorate the importance of World Wide Web and its impact on the word.

On 1 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web (www).

6 August – Hiroshima Day

On 6 August in 2025, the 80^th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Japan was observed as ‘Hiroshima Day’.

During the Second World War, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb codenamed ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6^th August 1945.

Hiroshima Day is observed annually on 6 August to commemorate the victims of the world's first nuclear attack in Hiroshima, Japan.

Hiroshima Day is also observed as the Anti-nuclear Day or the A-Bomb Day.

7 August – National Handloom Day in India

To honour the legacy of the handloom sector that played a vital role in India's freedom movement, the Indian Government declared 7th August as the National Handloom Day in India in 2015.

This day is observed every year to honour the Indian weaving community, recognise their contribution to India's socio-economic development and renew our collective resolve to preserve and promote our handloom heritage.

The 11th National Handloom Day was celebrated on 7th August 2025 at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi graced by the Hon'ble Indian President.

The prestigious Sant Kabir Handloom Awards and National Handloom Awards for the year 2024 for a total of 24 awardees were honoured on that day.

8 August – Quit India Movement Day

India celebrates 8^th August every year as the Quit India Movement Day.

The Quit India Movement Day is also known as August Kranti Diwas.

This day commemorates the Quit India Movement which demanded the immediate end of the British rule in India.

Launched by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942 during the All India Congress Committee Session in Bombay, the Quit India Movement demanded the immediate end of the British rule following the failure of Cripps Mission.

This year in 2025 marks the 83rd anniversary of the Quit India Movement.

9 August – Nagasaki Day

Every year on 9 August, Nagasaki Day is observed to mark the devastating bombing of the city of Nagasaki in Japan by the United States in 1945 during the World War II.

The tragic bombing of Nagasaki followed the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima just three days earlier.

This was the second and final time nuclear weapons have been used in warfare to date.

This year 2025 marks the 80^th anniversary of the bombing of the city of Nagasaki.

On 9^th August 1945, a US B-29 bomber named Bocksar dropped the atomic bom codenamed ‘Fat Man’ on the city of Nagasaki in Japan killing an estimated 40,000 people.

9 August – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed by the United Nations every year on 9 August.

This day aims to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population.

The theme for 2025 is ‘Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures’.

The United Nations has estimated that there are more than 476 million indigenous peoples in the world living across 90 countries. They make up 6 per cent of the world’s population.

12 August – International Youth Day

International Youth Day is commemorated annually on 12 August by the United Nations.

This day raises awareness of the challenges and opportunities facing young people around the world and serves as a platform for promoting youth engagement and celebrate their contributions to the society.

The International Youth Day 2025 theme is 'Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond'.

This day was designed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999.

19 August – World Humanitarian Day

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 19 August every year as the World Humanitarian Day.

This day recognises the humanitarian personnel across the world and to remember those who have laid their lives working for humanitarian causes.

19 August marks the day on which the then Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Iraq, Sergio Vieria de Mello and 21 of his colleagues were killed in a bombing in the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq.

This day was first commemorated on 19 August 2009.

The theme for the World Humanitarian Day 2025 is ‘Strengthening Global Solidarity and Empowering Local Communities’.

9 August – World Sanskrit Day

World Sanskrit Day, also known as the International Sanskrit Day or Sanskrit Diwas or Vishwa Sanskrita Dinam, is annually observed across the world on the full moon day of the month of Shravana (Sawan).

This day is commemorated to promote one of India’s oldest languages, Sanskrit and marks the birth anniversary of Panini, the renowned Sanskrit scholar and grammarian.

Sanskrit was declared as a Classical Language of India in the year 2005 by the Indian Government.

The first observance of the World Sanskrit Day was celebrated in 1969 by the Indian Government.

Uttarakhand became the first state in India to make Sanskrit an official language of the state alongside Hindi in 2010. Himachal Pradesh became the second state in 2019 and granted the official language status to Sanskrit.

29 August – National Sports Day

National Sports Day is celebrated every year in India on 29 August to honour and remember the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand.

Major Dhyan Chand is India’s iconic hockey player known as the ‘Hockey Wizard’ and lead India to three consecutive Olympic gold medals in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

The Indian Government announced to celebrate his birth anniversary as the National Sports Day in India annually on 29^th August.

This year in 2025 marks the 14^th National Sports Day in India.

The Indian President honours meritorious Indian sportspersons on this National Sports Day with many awards and honours such as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, Arjuna Award, Dhronacharya Award, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy, Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar and Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award to name a few.