Christmas Day 2026 is still ahead. It falls on Friday, 25 December 2026, 119 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 Christmas Day 2027, and for every year we have a page for see all holiday countdowns.
Christmas Day 2026 is Friday, 25 December 2026
There are 119 days between 28 August 2026 and Christmas Day, which falls on Friday, 25 December 2026. That is exactly 17 weeks, or 80 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 2026-12-25 in ISO form and 12/25/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 52 of 2026, and it is day 359 of 365.
How the date of Christmas Day is decided
Christmas Day is always 25 December. When it falls on a Saturday the federal holiday is observed on Friday 24 December; when it falls on a Sunday, on Monday 26 December.
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 2026 it is a Friday.
Christmas Day is one of the eleven US federal holidays. Federal offices, banks and the bond market close, and it does not count as a business day in any of the business-day calculators on this site. In 2026 it falls on a Friday, a normal working day, so there is no observed-date shift this year. When it lands at a weekend the observance moves to the adjacent Friday or Monday. The observed date is the one our business days calculator skips.
Christmas Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 25 December 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 25 December 2028 | Monday | Christmas Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 25 December 2029 | Tuesday | Christmas Day 2029 |
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 80 working days above.