🌟 We all use emoji every day, so why not 🎉 celebrate them?

Welcome to 📅 World Emoji Day — celebrated annually on July 17. 2025 marked the twelfth annual global emoji celebration.

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🙌 You can join the celebration on X (Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads or Facebook using the hashtag #WorldEmojiDay.

🙋 Why July 17?

July 17 is famously displayed on the 📅 Calendar Emoji, which is why we chose it as the date for World Emoji Day.

💡 The calendar emoji date is the reason this July 17 was chosen, but the day is much bigger than just one emoji. World Emoji Day is a celebration of all emojis.

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🗳 Cast your Vote

The World Emoji Awards will be back in 2025!

For 2024 we crowned the Most Popular New Emoji, the Most Anticipated New Emoji, and the Most 2024 Emoji.

You can find out more about our annual awards at: worldemojiawards.com.

🗓 Join the Event

Let your friends over on Facebook know your plans to celebrate by joining the World Emoji Day event.

We’ll also keep you posted about local events that are taking place near you.

🎶 Sing the Anthem

Written and produced by Jonathan Mann, we encourage you to upload your own video singing along. Or just put it on repeat and have a dance.

🎈 Emoji Royalty

🎂 Birthday on July 17? Not everyone is fortunate enough to have an emoji showing their date of birth. Be kind with your humble subjects on this day, despite knowing that you are the true emoji royalty.

Notable July 17 Birthdays:

Did we miss any? Tweet us! 💬

🎂 Hold An Emoji Party

Invite your friends around and dress as your favorite emoji character. The more obscure, the better.

You can bake emoji cakes, too!

🔥 Light Up The Socials

Post your favorite emoji. Share your favorite 50 emojis. There’s only one World Emoji Day, so make the most of it!

Let’s see social media come alive with more emojis than it has ever seen. Include the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag in your posts, so everyone else can follow along too.

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Post on X about #WorldEmojiDay

💬 Keep it Emoji-only

👉 Email from your kid’s 🏫 school? Respond with emojis.
👉 Text from 👵 Grandma? Describe your day using emojis.
👉 Running late for 🏢 work? Apologize with emojis!
👉 Phone call from the 🏦 bank? Probably best to answer that.