World Ocean Day provides an annual opportunity to celebrate our one shared ocean that connects us all! Together, we can take action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate.
With the 8th of June approaching, it’s time to figure out how you want to celebrate World Ocean Day. If you work with an organization or a business, you can rally your colleagues. Or, if you’re an individual, you can get some friends together and work with others in your community. Together, you can create a fun and impactful time on or around the 8th of June.
How Can You Get Involved this World Ocean Day?
- Get inspired with these ideas for celebrations, activities or other types of events!
- Choose an issue and action that you are interested in and try to integrate this year’s Action Theme to help catalyze ocean & climate action. Use the 12 Months of Action for ideas.
- Create an event for your community using the 2025 Event Planning Toolkit!
- Remember to involve young people as much as possible and collaborate with other organizations and businesses in your community.
- Citywide and regional celebrations can increase your collective impact! You likely know many already and you can find more organizations here.
- Make sure to submit the details of your event, activity, or conservation-related announcement! Then it will be posted to the Events Calendar and we can share your event with the world!
ALL the World Ocean Day resources are free to use and customize as you wish for your event planning! Remember to add in the official World Ocean Day logo, too! We created all these for you and other event organizers to celebrate and help advance ocean & climate action.
World Ocean Day Action Ideas!
For World Ocean Day 2024, thousands of organizations and millions of people got involved in 178 countries, as seen on the map. From Chile to China and from Greenland to Guam, people and communities came together to celebrate and take ocean & climate action.
Check out the 2024 global highlights and the Annual Report for more ideas and inspiration. Need assistance? The World Ocean Day 2025 Event Planning Toolkit can help!