Google Calendar users have noticed that several cultural observances, including Black History Month, Pride Month, Women’s History Month, and Indigenous Peoples Month, are no longer displayed on the platform for 2025.
The change, first reported by The Verge, has sparked debate online, with users questioning why these events were removed.
Previously, Google Calendar included key cultural observances such as:
February 1 – Black History Month
March 1 – Women’s History Month
June 1 – Pride Month
November 1 – Indigenous Peoples Month
However, in mid-2024, Google stopped manually adding cultural observances and shifted to using timeanddate.com, a third-party provider, for holiday listings. As a result, these events are no longer automatically displayed.
A Google spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the decision was due to scalability issues—managing hundreds of cultural observances across multiple countries had become unsustainable. The company is now limiting its official calendar listings to public holidays and national observances rather than manually curating additional events.
Users who still want these observances in their schedules will need to manually add them to their personal calendars. Google has not responded to further media inquiries.
“Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world,” a Google spokesperson told The Verge. “We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.”
Google has not stated whether it plans to restore any of the removed observances in the future. The company previously explained that it made the change to focus on public holidays and national observances, citing scalability challenges in maintaining a broader list of cultural events.
For now, those wishing to continue recognizing these important dates within Google Calendar must do so by creating custom entries or subscribing to third-party calendars that include them.
