Holiday Countdown - Days Until Next Holiday

How to use this tool

1. Open the holiday list. The tool needs no inputs; it reads the current date from your device and calculates the next occurrence of each listed holiday.
2. Compare upcoming dates. Read each holiday’s weekday, local calendar date, and days remaining. Today is green, dates within seven days are yellow, and later dates are neutral.
3. Plan in your local calendar. Use the dates for personal planning, and check a local government or workplace calendar when you need official observed days or a complete regional holiday list.

Upcoming holidays at a glance

The list sorts selected fixed-date and movable holidays by the number of local calendar days remaining. A date within the next seven days is highlighted in yellow, and a holiday that falls today is highlighted in green. It needs no form entries: the page reads the current date from your browser and refreshes its results at local midnight.

Which holidays are included?

The fixed-date entries include New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, April Fools' Day, Earth Day, Cinco de Mayo, Independence Day (US), Halloween, Veterans Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve. The list also includes five holidays whose dates move from year to year. This is a selected calendar, not a complete list of US federal days off or of public holidays around the world.

How movable dates are calculated

Western Easter uses the Gregorian computus to find Easter Sunday. US Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November, Memorial Day is the last Monday in May, Labor Day is the first Monday in September, and US Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May. These rules are applied for the current year and, if a holiday has already passed on today's local date, for the next year. For example, Thanksgiving falls on November 26 in 2026 and November 25 in 2027.

How the day count works

The calculation compares calendar dates at local midnight. It counts date boundaries, rather than dividing elapsed hours by 24, so a daylight-saving change does not add or remove a day. If today is Halloween, for example, Halloween remains at zero days and keeps its Today! badge throughout the local date, including after midnight has passed by several hours. When the local date changes, the page updates the list and rolls holidays that have passed to their next annual occurrence.

This view can help with personal plans, seasonal activities, or a quick check before arranging a US holiday gathering. The displayed dates follow the time zone set on your device. The day count may therefore change at a different moment for someone in another time zone, and the count for a given moment can differ around local midnight. Independence Day is shown on July 4; this list does not calculate separate workplace or government observed days off.

Scope and limitations

Easter is the Western Gregorian date; Orthodox Easter can differ. The Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Mother's Day rules are for the United States, and the page does not include Canadian Thanksgiving or full country, state, provincial, or workplace calendars. It also excludes other movable observances that require additional regional or lunar-calendar rules. All date calculations happen in your browser without a holiday service or network request.