Holidays in United States 2026
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: July 20, 2026
The 2026 United States holiday table below lists 11 dates, each one a day this calculator treats as closed. 11 fall on a weekday and 0 land on a weekend, leaving 250 business days across the year on the national-only count. A date is not always a holiday of its own: 1 is marked observed or additional, the day a holiday was moved to or a further day granted with it.
2026 federal holidays calendar
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Thursday | New Year's Day |
| Jan 19 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| Feb 16 | Monday | Presidents' Day |
| May 25 | Monday | Memorial Day |
| Jun 19 | Friday | Juneteenth |
| Jul 3 | Friday | Independence Day (observed) |
| Sep 7 | Monday | Labor Day |
| Oct 12 | Monday | Columbus Day |
| Nov 11 | Wednesday | Veterans Day |
| Nov 26 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day |
| Dec 25 | Friday | Christmas Day |
2026 year summary
Total days
365
Weekend days
104
Federal holidays on weekdays
11
Working days
250
All 11 dates land on weekdays in 2026, so each one takes a working day out of the count. 5 U.S.C. 6103(a) names 11 legal public holidays. This table lists the days of this calendar year that federal employees on a Monday-to-Friday workweek have as those holidays (5 U.S.C. 6103(b), Executive Order 11582). When 1 January is a Saturday, the Friday before it, 31 December, is the New Year's Day holiday and is listed in the year it falls in, so that year's table has 12 dates and the next year's has 10.
Sources for these rules
- Federal Holidays: a Saturday holiday is observed on the preceding Friday (5 U.S.C. 6103(b)), a Sunday holiday on the following Monday (E.O. 11582, section 3(a)) (U.S. Office of Personnel Management)
- 5 U.S.C. 6103: the legal public holidays, and (b) the Friday before a Saturday holiday (U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo))
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Federal Reserve and FedACH counts around Saturday holidays
This calendar counts each federal holiday on the day federal employees have it. When a holiday falls on a Saturday, 5 U.S.C. 6103(b) makes the Friday before it the legal public holiday for employees whose basic workweek is Monday through Friday (the Office of Personnel Management says the same of most federal employees, for pay and leave purposes), so this calendar leaves that Friday out. The Federal Reserve Banks are open that Friday. A count on the Reserve Banks' schedule, which the same page sets out for FedACH, therefore has one more business day across one of those Fridays than this calendar shows.
Fridays this affects in 2026:
- Friday, July 3, 2026 (Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4, 2026)
Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo), 5 U.S.C. 6103(b); U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Holidays; Federal Reserve Financial Services, Holiday Schedules. Checked October 12, 2026. All sources
Holidays not included
State and local holidays are not in this federal-only set. This site's state pages for California, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas list each of those states' own holidays, and the calculator's Advanced options take any other state or local date for jurisdiction-specific work.
Other years
Sources and verification
Official source: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (opm.gov) (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on July 20, 2026.