May 2008
was the fifth month of the year. It began on a Thursday and ended
after 31 days on a Saturday.
International holidays
- May 1 - Labour Day (Pakistan
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (Philippines
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (Singapore
)
- May 1 - May Day
(Europe)
- May 1 - Labour Day and Ascension
Day (Norway
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (India
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (Guyana
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (Brazil
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (Chile
)
- May 1 - Labour Day (China
)
- May 1 - Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Israel
)
- May 2 - Dos de Mayo (Spain
)
- May 5 - Liberation Day (Ethiopia
, Netherlands
, Denmark
)
- May 5 - Children's Day (Japan
, South Korea
)
- May 5 - Coronation Day (Thailand
)
- May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico
)
- May 5 - Indian Arrival Day Guyana

- May 6 - St George's Day (Bulgaria
)
- May 7 - Memorial Day (Israel
)
- May 8 - Independence Day (Israel
)
- May 8 - Victory in Europe Day
- May 8 - Parent's day in South Korea
- May 9 - Europe Day (European Union)
- May 12 - Whit Monday (France
, Germany
, Austria
, Switzerland
, Luxembourg
, Greece
, Hungary
, Belgium
, The
Netherlands
, Norway
)
- May 14 - Independence Day (Israel
)
- May 16 - Jerusalem Day (Israel
)
- May 17 - Constitution Day (Norway
)
- May 17 - May 3rd Constitution Day (Poland
, Lithuania
)
- May 18 - Haitian Flag Day (Haiti
)
- May 19 - Victoria Day (Canada
)
- May 22 - Corpus Christi
- Mother's Day
- May 8 (Parent's Day) - South Korea
and Albania
- May 10 - Mexico

- May 10 - South America, El Salvador
, Guatemala
, Oman
, and
Pakistan
- May 11 (2nd Sunday) -
Anguilla
, Aruba
, Australia, Austria
, Bahamas
, Barbados
, Bangladesh
, Belgium
, Belize
, Bermuda
, Bonaire
, Brazil
, Brunei
, Canada
, Chile
, Colombia
, Cuba
, Croatia
, Curaçao
, Czech
Republic
, Denmark
, Ecuador
, Estonia
, Finland
, Germany
, Greece
, Grenada
, Honduras
, Hong
Kong
, Iceland
, India
, Italy
, Jamaica
, Japan
, Latvia
, Malta
, Malaysia
, The
Netherlands
, New Zealand
, Peru
, Philippines
, Puerto Rico, Singapore
, Slovakia
, South Africa, Suriname
, Switzerland
, Taiwan
, Trinidad and
Tobago
, Turkey
, United States
, Uruguay
, Venezuela
, Zimbabwe
- May 25 (last Sunday) -
France
(switches to
first Sunday of June if coincides with Pentecost), Dominican Republic
, Haiti
, Sweden
, and
Morocco
- May 26 - Poland

- May 27 - Bolivia

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