Good Friday 2026 has already happened. It was Friday, 3 April 2026, 147 days ago. 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 Good Friday 2027, and for the always-current countdown see the next Good Friday.
Good Friday 2026 is Friday, 3 April 2026
Good Friday 2026 fell on Friday, 3 April 2026, which was 147 days before 28 August 2026. That is exactly 21 weeks, or 102 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 2026-04-03 in ISO form and 4/3/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 14 of 2026, and it is day 93 of 365.
How the date of Good Friday is decided
The Friday before Easter Sunday, so it is two days before Easter and follows the same computus.
That makes it a computed date: there is no fixed day and no simple weekday rule, so it has to be worked out from a formula or a calendar of its own each year. In 2026 it works out as Friday 3 April.
Good Friday 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.
Good Friday in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 26 March 2027 | Friday | Good Friday 2027 |
| 2028 | 14 April 2028 | Friday | Good Friday 2028 |
| 2029 | 30 March 2029 | Friday | Good Friday 2029 |
Both the date and the weekday move, because the rule is not tied to either.
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 102 working days above.