April Fools' Day 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Saturday, 1 April 2028, 582 days after 28 August 2026. This page is kept whichever side of today the date falls on: the date and the rule behind it are worth looking up either way. For the year after this one see April Fools' Day 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next April Fools' Day.
April Fools' Day 2028 is Saturday, 1 April 2028
There are 582 days between 28 August 2026 and April Fools' Day 2028, which falls on Saturday, 1 April 2028. That is 83 weeks and 1 day, or 396 working days once Saturdays, Sundays and the US federal holidays in between are taken out — the figure that matters if you are counting delivery lead time or a work schedule rather than sleeps. The date is 2028-04-01 in ISO form and 4/1/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 13 of 2028, and it is day 92 of 366.
How the date of April Fools' Day is decided
April Fools' Day is always 1 April.
That makes it a fixed date: the same day of the same month every year, so it lands on a different weekday each time. In 2028 it is a Saturday.
April Fools' Day is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.
April Fools' Day in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 1 April 2029 | Sunday | April Fools' Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 1 April 2030 | Monday | Next April Fools' Day |
| 2031 | 1 April 2031 | Tuesday | Next April Fools' Day |
The date does not move, but the weekday does — which is why the same holiday gives a long weekend in some years and not others.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including how we count the 396 working days above.