April Fools' Day 2027 is still ahead. It falls on Thursday, 1 April 2027, 216 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 2028, and for every year we have a page for see all holiday countdowns.
April Fools' Day 2027 is Thursday, 1 April 2027
There are 216 days between 28 August 2026 and April Fools' Day, which falls on Thursday, 1 April 2027. That is 30 weeks and 6 days, or 146 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 2027-04-01 in ISO form and 4/1/2027 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 13 of 2027, and it is day 91 of 365.
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 2027 it is a Thursday.
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 2027
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2028 | 1 April 2028 | Saturday | April Fools' Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 1 April 2029 | Sunday | April Fools' Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 1 April 2030 | Monday | 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 146 working days above.