🇺🇸United States 2026 Public Holidays
Complete list of United States’s public holidays for 2026, including regional holidays, bank holidays, and key celebrations.
Holidays
Data sources and review
Calendar data: date-holidays + ClockZone
Reference reviewed . Dates are calculated from rules unless individually marked as checked; a reference link does not verify the whole table.
Country calendar. Regional dates may differ.
23 entries covering 23 calendar dates, not a count of days off.
United States Public Holidays: An Overview
This page summarises the patterns behind United States's public holidays from year to year. If you just want the full list of dates for one year, choose that year from the navigation below.
2025–2027: A Three-Year Comparison
The number of public holidays, and the time off they actually translate into, varies from one year to the next. The table below is worked out directly from each year's holiday dates.
These country-level estimates assume a Saturday–Sunday weekend. Regional schedules, substitute days and working-day exceptions may differ.
| Year | Holidays | Long weekends | Bridge days | At the weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| 2027 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 |
Holidays that shift each year
9 of United States's public holidays land on a different date each year, following a lunar calendar, a religious calendar or a rule such as “the third Monday in January”. These are the ones to watch when you plan ahead:
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 2025-01-20, 2025 · 2026-01-19, 2026 · 2027-01-18, 2027
- Washington's Birthday: 2025-02-17, 2025 · 2026-02-16, 2026 · 2027-02-15, 2027
- Memorial Day: 2025-05-26, 2025 · 2026-05-25, 2026 · 2027-05-31, 2027
- Juneteenth: 2025-06-19, 2025 · 2026-06-19, 2026 · 2027-06-18, 2027
- Independence Day: 2025-07-04, 2025 · 2026-07-03, 2026 · 2027-07-04, 2027
- Labor Day: 2025-09-01, 2025 · 2026-09-07, 2026 · 2027-09-06, 2027
A further 2 holidays keep the same date every year and aren't affected by these rules.