mothers day dates!^.^

As the US holiday was adopted by other countries and cultures, the date was changed to fit already existing celebrations honouring motherhood, like Mothering Sunday in the UK or the Orthodoxcelebration of Jesus in the temple in Greece. In some countries it was changed to dates that were significant to the majority religion, like the Virgin Mary day in Catholic countries, or the birthday of the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic countries. Other countries changed it to historical dates, like Bolivia using the date of a certain battle where women participated.^[9] See the "International history and traditions" section for the complete list.

Note: Countries that celebrate the International Women's Day instead of Mother's Day are marked with a dagger '†'.^{[clarification needed]}

Gregorian calendar
Occurrence	Dates	Country
Second Sunday of February	February 8, 2009 February 14, 2010 February 13, 2011	Norway
Shevat 30 (Falls anywhere between January 30 and March 1)		Israel[10]
March 3		Georgia
March 8		Afghanistan Albania† Armenia	Azerbaijan Belarus† Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bulgaria† Kazakhstan† Laos	Macedonia† Moldova Montenegro	Russia†* Serbia Ukraine Vietnam†*
Fourth Sunday in Lent	March 22, 2009 March 14, 2010 April 3, 2011	Ireland Nigeria	United Kingdom
March 21 (vernal Equinox)		Bahrain Egypt Jordan Kuwait Libya	Lebanon Oman Palestinian Territories Israeli Arabs [11]	Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria	United Arab Emirates Yemen (All Arab countries in general) Iraq [12]
March 25		Slovenia
April 7		Armenia
April 24 +/- 5 days BaisakhAmavasya (Mata Tirtha Aunsi)		Nepal
First Sunday in May	May 3, 2009 May 2, 2010 May 1, 2011	Hungary Lithuania	Mozambique Portugal	Spain Romania
May 8		Albania (Parents' Day) South Korea (Parents' Day)
May 10		El Salvador Guatemala	Mexico
Second Sunday of May	May 10, 2009 May 9, 2010 May 8, 2011	Anguilla Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bermuda Bonaire Brazil Brunei Bulgaria	Canada Chile People's Republic of China†[13] Colombia Croatia Cuba[14] Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic[15] Denmark	Dominica Ecuador Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Honduras Hong Kong Iceland India	Italy Jamaica Japan Latvia* Liechtenstein* Macao Malaysia Malta Myanmar Netherlands New Zealand Pakistan Papua New Guinea Peru[16]	Philippines Puerto Rico St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia[15] South Africa Sri Lanka Suriname	Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uganda Ukraine United States Uruguay Venezuela Zambia Zimbabwe
May 15		Paraguay (same day as Día de la Patria)[17]
May 26		Poland "Dzień Matki"
May 27		Bolivia[9]
Last Sunday of May	May 31, 2009 May 30, 2010	Algeria Dominican Republic	France (First Sunday of June ifPentecost occurs on this day) French Antilles(First Sunday of June ifPentecost occurs on this day)	Haiti[18] Mauritius Morocco	Sweden Tunisia
May 30		Nicaragua[19]
June 1		Mongolia† (The Mothers and Children's Day.)
Second Sunday of June	June 14, 2009 June 13, 2010 June 12, 2011	Luxembourg
Last Sunday of June	June 28, 2009 June 27, 2010	Kenya
August 12		Thailand (the birthday of Queen Sirikit)
August 15		Costa Rica
Second Monday of October	October 12, 2009 October 11, 2010 October 10, 2011	Malawi
October 14		Belarus
Third Sunday of October	October 18, 2009 October 17, 2010	Argentina (Día de la Madre)
Last Sunday of November	November 29, 2009 November 28, 2010	Russia
December 8 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception)		Panama[20]
December 22		Indonesia
Islamic calendar
Occurrence	Dates	Country
20 Jumada al-thani[n 1]	14 June 2009	Iran [21]