Boxing Day 2027 is still ahead. It falls on Sunday, 26 December 2027, 485 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 Boxing Day 2028, and for the always-current countdown see the next Boxing Day.
Boxing Day 2027 is Sunday, 26 December 2027
There are 485 days between 28 August 2026 and Boxing Day 2027, which falls on Sunday, 26 December 2027. That is 69 weeks and 2 days, or 329 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 2027-12-26 in ISO form and 12/26/2027 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 51 of 2027, and it is day 360 of 365.
How the date of Boxing Day is decided
Boxing Day is 26 December. It is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand but not in the United States.
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 Sunday.
Boxing 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.
Boxing Day in the years after 2027
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2028 | 26 December 2028 | Tuesday | Boxing Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 26 December 2029 | Wednesday | Boxing Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 26 December 2030 | Thursday | Next Boxing 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 329 working days above.