Texas State Holidays 2026
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 11, 2026
Texas's own holiday calendar for 2026 is listed below under Government Code chapter 662, next to the federal holidays this page counts. The business-day total follows the federal list in 5 U.S.C. 6103, taking each holiday on the day federal employees have it, and gives 2026 250 working days; Texas's own days are marked in the table and never subtracted.
How Texas's holidays differ from the federal set
Texas sorts its holidays into national, state and optional tiers (Government Code section 662.003), and its state tier does not work like the federal list. On five state holidays, Confederate Heroes Day, Texas Independence Day, San Jacinto Day, Emancipation Day (June 19) and Lyndon Baines Johnson Day, a state agency must have enough employees on duty to conduct its public business when the day falls from Monday to Friday (section 662.004). The other three, the Friday after Thanksgiving, December 24 and December 26, are exempt from that rule, and the Comptroller marks them 'Office closed' when they fall on a weekday. Columbus Day is in none of the three tiers, and a holiday that falls on a weekend is not observed on another day.
Texas holidays beyond the federal list (2026)
- Confederate Heroes Day (Monday, January 19)
- Texas Independence Day (Monday, March 2)
- San Jacinto Day (Tuesday, April 21)
- Emancipation Day (Friday, June 19)
- Lyndon B. Johnson Day (Thursday, August 27)
- Day after Thanksgiving (Friday, November 27)
- Christmas Eve (Thursday, December 24)
- Day after Christmas (Saturday, December 26)
Federal holiday dates not on Texas's list (2026)
- Independence Day (observed) (Friday, July 3)
- Columbus Day (Monday, October 12)
Texas holiday calendar 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Thursday | New Year's Day |
| January 19 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| February 16 | Monday | Presidents' Day |
| March 2 | Monday | Texas Independence Daystate holiday, offices open |
| April 21 | Tuesday | San Jacinto Daystate holiday, offices open |
| May 25 | Monday | Memorial Day |
| June 19 | Friday | Emancipation Daystate holiday, offices open |
| June 19 | Friday | Juneteenthfederal |
| July 3 | Friday | Independence Day (observed)federal only |
| August 27 | Thursday | Lyndon B. Johnson Daystate holiday, offices open |
| September 7 | Monday | Labor Day |
| October 12 | Monday | Columbus Dayfederal only |
| November 11 | Wednesday | Veterans Day |
| November 26 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day |
| November 27 | Friday | Day after Thanksgivingstate holiday |
| December 24 | Thursday | Christmas Evestate holiday |
| December 25 | Friday | Christmas Day |
| December 26 | Saturday (weekend) | Day after Christmasstate holiday |
2026 summary
Total days
365
Weekend days
104
Federal holidays on weekdays
11
Working days
250
After 104 weekend days and 11 weekday federal holidays, 2026 has 250 working days on the federal count. Texas's own holidays are not subtracted; the section below shows how its calendar would change the total.
Federal Reserve and FedACH counts around Saturday holidays
This calendar combines federal and Texas holidays, and its business-day count takes 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 page's count 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 page's count shows. Whether Texas also treats that Friday as a holiday is a separate question, settled by its own holiday rules.
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
Texas in 2026: how the calendar falls
Every figure below is computed from the 2026 dates in the table above and the Monday to Friday week, and each rule names the provision or the official list it is taken from. When a date changes, the sentences change with it.
How Texas law sorts its holidays in 2026
Texas Government Code section 662.003 sorts holidays into three tiers. Nine are national holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Eight are state holidays: Confederate Heroes Day (January 19), Texas Independence Day (March 2), San Jacinto Day (April 21), Emancipation Day in Texas (June 19), Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (August 27), the Friday after Thanksgiving, December 24 and December 26. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Good Friday are optional. Columbus Day, a federal holiday, appears in none of the three lists. June 19, the federal Juneteenth, is on the state list as Emancipation Day in Texas.
Section 662.004 decides what a state holiday means for an office: a state agency must have enough employees on duty to conduct its public business, except on a state holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, on December 24 and on December 26. In 2026 that makes Texas Independence Day (Monday, March 2), San Jacinto Day (Tuesday, April 21), Emancipation Day (Friday, June 19), and Lyndon B. Johnson Day (Thursday, August 27) skeleton-crew days, when state offices stay open. Confederate Heroes Day shares its 2026 date with Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, a national holiday, which section 662.004's staffing rule does not reach. The state holidays section 662.004 exempts from that rule are Day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 27 and Christmas Eve on Thursday, December 24; Day after Christmas on Saturday, December 26 falls on a weekend.
Section 662.005 grants a paid day off only when a holiday does not fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and the Comptroller's schedule states that offices will not be closed on another day. In 2026 that leaves Independence Day on Saturday, July 4 and Day after Christmas on Saturday, December 26 with no weekday off at all, even where federal employees get one.
Good Friday is Friday, April 3 in 2026. As an optional holiday it lets an employee take the day in place of a skeleton-crew holiday, which the Comptroller's schedule allows for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur too; the Comptroller's schedule marks it "Optional Holiday", not "Office closed".
2026 in Texas: the same total by a different route
A year's working days are its weekdays minus the holidays that land on them, and both halves move. The weekday supply depends only on the year's length and the weekday it starts on; the holiday half depends on where each fixed date falls that year. 2026 runs 365 days, 52 whole weeks and one day over. It opens and closes on a Thursday, so the spare day is a weekday and the year holds 261 of them.
Eleven federal holidays in this page's count fall on weekdays, so Texas has 250 working days in 2026. That matches 2025 exactly, with the same weekday supply and the same number of weekday holidays. 2027 falls to 249.
Saturday holidays in 2026
A fixed-date holiday on a weekend is where the federal, Reserve Bank and state calendars part company. For most federal employees a Saturday holiday moves to the Friday and a Sunday one to the Monday (5 U.S.C. 6103(b) and Executive Order 11582, as OPM applies them); the Federal Reserve Banks follow the Monday rule but not the Friday one; and Texas has its own rule. In 2026:
- Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4; most federal employees have Friday, July 3 as the holiday instead. The Federal Reserve Banks are open that Friday; the Board of Governors is closed. Texas gives no day for it: section 662.005 grants a paid day off only for a holiday that does not fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and the Comptroller's schedule states that offices will not be closed on another day, so Friday, July 3 is not a holiday on the Texas calendar.
This page's count leaves out the Friday or Monday that federal employees have as the holiday, because the count follows the federal employees' holidays. A count on the Federal Reserve Banks' schedule has one more business day across each of those Fridays.
Where Texas's own calendar departs from the count in 2026
The count on this page and the Texas state-agency calendar (Government Code chapter 662) differ only where one of them has a holiday on a weekday and the other does not. The Texas calendar has Day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 27 and Christmas Eve on Thursday, December 24 as holidays, which the federal count treats as working days. The federal count takes out Juneteenth on Friday, June 19, Independence Day (observed) on Friday, July 3, and Columbus Day on Monday, October 12, which the Texas calendar does not.
On balance the Texas calendar has 251 working days in 2026, one more than the 250 this page counts. Texas Independence Day on Monday, March 2, San Jacinto Day on Tuesday, April 21, and Lyndon B. Johnson Day on Thursday, August 27 are state holidays on which offices stay open, so they count as working days on both.
Where the fixed-date holidays land in 2026
A holiday tied to a calendar date moves one weekday later each year, so the week it breaks changes every year while its date stays put. Against 2025, each of these has moved one weekday on:
- New Year's Day is a Thursday in 2026, after a Wednesday in 2025, which leaves Friday, January 2 as a single working day before the weekend on this page's count.
- Juneteenth is a Friday in 2026, after a Thursday in 2025, so on this page's count the weekend after it becomes three days off.
- Independence Day is a Saturday in 2026, after a Friday in 2025, a weekend day, so the date itself takes no working day on this page's count; the weekend rules above decide whether a weekday is given for it.
- Veterans Day is a Wednesday in 2026, after a Tuesday in 2025: a midweek break that leaves two working days on each side of it on this page's count.
- Christmas Eve is a Thursday in 2026, after a Wednesday in 2025, so on the Texas calendar it is one of four days off in a row, Thursday, December 24 to Sunday, December 27.
- Christmas Day is a Friday in 2026, after a Thursday in 2025, so on this page's count the weekend after it becomes three days off.
- Day after Christmas is a Saturday in 2026, after a Friday in 2025, a weekend day, so the date itself takes no working day on the Texas calendar; the weekend rules above decide whether a weekday is given for it.
Eight long weekends in 2026
A weekday holiday next to a weekend turns two days off into three; two closures side by side, or one on each side of a weekend, make four or more. That is arithmetic on the dates, so the list moves every year even when the holidays do not. On this page's count, Texas has eight such breaks in 2026:
- Saturday, January 17 to Monday, January 19: three days, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- Saturday, February 14 to Monday, February 16: three days, for Presidents' Day.
- Saturday, May 23 to Monday, May 25: three days, for Memorial Day.
- Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21: three days, for Juneteenth.
- Friday, July 3 to Sunday, July 5: three days, for Independence Day (observed).
- Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7: three days, for Labor Day.
- Saturday, October 10 to Monday, October 12: three days, for Columbus Day.
- Friday, December 25 to Sunday, December 27: three days, for Christmas Day.
On the Texas calendar the breaks differ: Thursday, November 26 to Sunday, November 29 (four days) and Thursday, December 24 to Sunday, December 27 (four days). Those follow the state's own holidays and do not change this page's count.
Bridge days and midweek breaks in 2026
A holiday on a Tuesday or a Thursday strands a single working day between it and the weekend; a Wednesday one splits the week into two short runs instead. 2026 has both kinds. The stranded days are Friday, January 2, next to New Year's Day and Friday, November 27, next to Thanksgiving Day.
The midweek closure is Veterans Day on Wednesday, November 11. A deadline counted across a Wednesday holiday loses its day in the middle of the week, not at either end, so a count that steps through the week one day at a time has to skip it there.
Texas month by month, 2026
A month's working days are its weekdays less the holidays on them, so a month with no weekday holiday is set entirely by how its weekdays fall, and every holiday that lands midweek takes one day off the month it sits in.
| Month | Working days, this count | Working days, Texas calendar | Weekday holidays |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20 | 20 | New Year's Day (January 1) and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 19) |
| February | 19 | 19 | Presidents' Day (February 16) |
| March | 22 | 22 | none |
| April | 22 | 22 | none |
| May | 20 | 20 | Memorial Day (May 25) |
| June | 21 | 22 | Juneteenth (June 19) |
| July | 22 | 23 | Independence Day (observed) (July 3) |
| August | 21 | 21 | none |
| September | 21 | 21 | Labor Day (September 7) |
| October | 21 | 22 | Columbus Day (October 12) |
| November | 19 | 18 | Veterans Day (November 11) and Thanksgiving Day (November 26) |
| December | 22 | 21 | Christmas Day (December 25) |
The second column follows the federal set this page counts. The third follows the Texas state-agency calendar (Government Code chapter 662), for readers dealing with that calendar directly.
Texas's longest stretch without a holiday, 2026
The longest run of working days with no weekday holiday inside it depends on how far apart consecutive closures sit, so it moves whenever one fixed-date holiday changes weekday. In 2026 it runs from Tuesday, February 17 to Friday, May 22 inside the first half of the year: 69 working days, 13 full working weeks and four days.
The first working day of 2026 on this count is Friday, January 2, after New Year's Day. The last is Thursday, December 31, which is the latest date a count of working days can end on inside 2026.
Which calendar the 2026 count uses
The working-day total counts the legal public holidays of 5 U.S.C. 6103 on the dates most federal employees have them, as OPM publishes them. It is not identical to the Federal Reserve Banks' calendar. The Board of Governors' K.8 schedule states that the Federal Reserve Banks are open on the Friday before a Saturday holiday, and in 2026 that means Friday, July 3. A count on the Reserve Banks' schedule has one more business day across that Friday than this page's count shows.
The Texas state-agency calendar (Government Code chapter 662) is shown in the table and never subtracted from the count.
Statutes and schedules cited in this section
Each rule above comes from one of these sources or from the holiday data source below.
- Texas Legislative Council: Government Code, Chapter 662 (opens in a new tab)
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: State of Texas Holiday Schedule, Fiscal Year 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Federal Holidays (opens in a new tab)
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Holidays Observed - K.8 (opens in a new tab)
Sources and verification
Official source: comptroller.texas.gov (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on September 11, 2026.