Holiday Countdowns
Live countdowns to the big US holidays, soonest first — each in your own time zone, with how the date is worked out and the dates for the next five years.
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How the dates are worked out
Some holidays are fixed dates — Christmas is always December 25 and Halloween October 31 — so only the weekday changes. Others follow a weekday rule: Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, Memorial Day the last Monday of May and Labor Day the first Monday of September. Easter is the hardest: it is the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21, which puts it anywhere from March 22 to April 25. Each countdown page shows the working for this year’s date, including the full Easter calculation.
Federal holidays on weekends
When a fixed-date federal holiday — New Year’s Day, the Fourth of July or Christmas — falls on a Saturday, most federal employees get the Friday before off; on a Sunday, the Monday after. The countdown pages for those holidays list the federal day off for each of the next five years. Valentine’s Day, Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Black Friday are not federal holidays.
Counting minutes rather than days? Use the online timers or the countdown timer. To count the days between any two dates, try the date difference calculator.