United States holidays 2026–2027

The United States has 11 federal holidays, plus Inauguration Day every fourth January for federal workers in the Washington, D.C. area. On top of that each of the 50 states and DC keeps its own list of state holidays, and there are dozens of widely celebrated observances that are not days off. Use the tables below for exact dates, observed days and where each holiday applies.

Federal holidays 2026 All 2026 holidays Long weekends 2026

Upcoming federal holidays

12 days away Veterans Day Wednesday, November 11, 2026 27 days away Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 26, 2026 56 days away Christmas Day Friday, December 25, 2026 63 days away New Year's Day Friday, January 1, 2027 80 days away Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, January 18, 2027 108 days away Presidents' Day Monday, February 15, 2027

Federal holidays in 2026

HolidayDateDayObservedWhere
New Year's DayJan 1Thursday—Nationwide
Martin Luther King Jr. DayJan 19Monday—Nationwide
Presidents' DayFeb 16Monday—Nationwide (federal); state day off in 44 of 51
Memorial DayMay 25Monday—Nationwide
Juneteenth National Independence DayJun 19Friday—Nationwide (federal); state day off in 34 of 51
Independence DayJul 4SaturdayFri, Jul 3Nationwide
Labor DaySep 7Monday—Nationwide
Columbus DayOct 12Monday—Nationwide (federal); state day off in 25 of 51
Veterans DayNov 11Wednesday—Nationwide (federal); state day off in 50 of 51
Thanksgiving DayNov 26Thursday—Nationwide
Christmas DayDec 25Friday—Nationwide

Holidays by state

Each state page lists the federal holidays it observes, its own state holidays, optional days, and long weekends for any year from 2026 to 2027.

AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming

All U.S. holidays & observances

Federal holidays (12)

State holidays (48)

Observances (21)

Religious observances (5)

Where the dates come from

Each holiday is stored as the rule that creates it: a fixed date, a numbered weekday of a month, or an offset from Easter, together with the rule for a holiday that lands on a weekend. The dates are worked out from those rules and then checked against the government's own published calendar. Where a date depends on a yearly proclamation or a government announcement rather than a formula, we use the announcement, and the note on that row says when a date is still expected rather than confirmed.

How U.S. holiday dates are set

Federal holidays are listed in 5 U.S.C. § 6103. Five have fixed dates (New Year's Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Veterans Day and Christmas Day) and the other six flota to a Monday or, for Thanksgiving, a Thursday. If a fixed-date holiday lands on a Saturday, most federal employees get the Friday before; if it lands on a Sunday, the Monday after - states write their own holiday statutes, which is why Texas has Confederate Heroes Day, Massachusetts has Patriots' Day and more than half of the states no longer give state workers Columbus Day off. Private employers are not required to observe any of them.

Keep one thing in mind on every U.S. page: a federal holiday binds federal offices and federal employees, and each state writes its own list on top of it. So "is it a holiday?" is realy two questions, one for federal offices and one for your state, and the state pages answer the second. Private employers set their own policy either way.