Holiday countdown 2026 and 2027

The big dates of 2026, 2027 and 2028

The table gives the dates people search for most, three years at a time. Holidays set on a fixed day of the month change weekday every year; holidays set on a weekday of the month change date. Each row links to a page with its own countdown, the rule written out and the questions people ask about it.

Two dates in that table are fixed by law but not federal holidays: Mother's Day and Father's Day are designated by Congress in title 36 of the Code, the chapter of patriotic and national observances, which asks the President to proclaim them but closes nothing. Black Friday is not set by any text at all: it is simply the day after Thanksgiving, and the stock market closes early that day.

Is it open today? Offices, banks, markets and the post office

A holiday does not close everything, and the places that close do not always close on the same day. Pick a date: the checker gives the national rule for post office counters, mail delivery, blue collection boxes, banks that follow the Federal Reserve calendar, the stock market and federal offices, with the reason in each case.

The Postal Service sorts its holidays into two groups in the Postal Operations Manual. On the six widely observed ones (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas) offices close and mail is not collected. On the five others (Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Washington's Birthday, Juneteenth, Columbus Day and Veterans Day) offices also close and regular delivery stops, but collection boxes are still emptied, because most businesses keep working and mailing. The dedicated pages explain the $<a href="/en/post-office-open-today/">post office</a>, $<a href="/en/mail-delivery-today/">mail delivery</a>, $<a href="/en/banks-open-today/">banks</a> and the $<a href="/en/stock-market-open-today/">stock market</a> one by one.

Federal holidays: the eleven days and their observed dates

Federal holidays bind federal offices and set the calendar most employers, banks and schools start from. In 2026 the observed days run from $Thu, Jan 1 to $Fri, Dec 25; the only shift is Independence Day, observed on $Friday, July 3, 2026. In 2027 the calendar is less tidy: Juneteenth and Christmas fall on a Saturday, Independence Day on a Sunday, and New Year's Day 2028 falls on a Saturday, so it is observed on $Friday, December 31, 2027, inside 2027. The table tool shows any of the four calendars for 2026, 2027 or 2028, and saves it to your own calendar.

Each year has its own page: $<a href="/en/federal-holidays-2026/">federal holidays 2026</a>, $<a href="/en/federal-holidays-2027/">federal holidays 2027</a> and $<a href="/en/federal-holidays-2028/">federal holidays 2028</a>, with the bank calendars of $<a href="/en/bank-holidays-2026/">2026</a> and $<a href="/en/bank-holidays-2027/">2027</a>, the $<a href="/en/stock-market-holidays/">stock market holidays</a> and the $<a href="/en/post-office-holidays-2027/">post office holidays</a>.

Why the rule matters more than the list

Lists go out of date; rules do not. A page that copies last year's holidays shows the right names with the wrong days, and a page that publishes next year's dates only when someone remembers to update it is empty when people start planning. Working from the rule removes both problems. The program behind this site knows that Memorial Day is the last Monday of May, so it gives $Monday, May 31, 2027 for 2027 and $Monday, May 29, 2028 for 2028 without anyone typing them; it knows the Federal Reserve leaves its Banks open when a holiday falls on a Saturday, so it marks banks open on $Friday, December 24, 2027, the day federal offices observe Christmas 2027.

Rules can still be misread, so every rule is tested against the lists published by the organizations themselves. The OPM tables of federal holidays for 2026, 2027 and 2028, the Federal Reserve schedule, the NYSE calendar with its 1:00 p.m. early closes, and the Postal Service memo for July 4, 2026 are all reproduced by the program to the day, and the test suite fails if a single date differs. When one of those organizations publishes a new year, its list is added to the tests the same day.

Some dates are not set by a rule at all. The Super Bowl is scheduled by the National Football League: $LXI is set for $Sunday, February 14, 2027, while the 2028 game has a venue but no announced date, and the site says so rather than guessing. Ramadan begins with the sighting of the new crescent, so its date is shown as an estimate with the method behind it. Extra days off given by executive order are added when the order is signed.

Business days, weekends and long weekends

Counting days to a holiday is one thing; counting the working days left is what matters for a delivery, a filing or a notice period. The counter below takes two dates and counts Monday to Friday, leaving out the federal holidays on their observed days, which is how most US deadlines expressed in business days are read. It also lists the holidays it skipped, so the count can be checked by hand.

Five of the eleven federal holidays are set on a Monday, so they always make a three-day weekend: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Columbus Day. The five fixed-date holidays make a long weekend only when they fall on a Monday or a Friday, or when they move there because of a weekend; Thanksgiving, always a Thursday, does so only where the Friday after is given too. The $<a href="/en/business-days/">business days page</a> goes further, with the rules used by courts and carriers.

Seasons, moons and the dates that follow the sky

The first day of each astronomical season is the moment of an equinox or a solstice, which falls at a precise minute and so on a different calendar day depending on the time zone. The winter solstice of 2026 comes at $December 21, 2026 at 3:50 PM EST, the spring equinox of 2027 at $March 20, 2027 at 4:24 PM EDT. The lunar new year and Ramadan depend on new moons; Easter on a calendar moon fixed by church rules. Each has a page with its countdown and method: $<a href="/en/first-day-of-winter/">first day of winter</a>, $<a href="/en/first-day-of-spring/">first day of spring</a>, $<a href="/en/chinese-new-year/">Chinese New Year</a> and $<a href="/en/ramadan/">Ramadan</a>.

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