Groundhog Day 2026 has already happened. It was Monday, 2 February 2026, 207 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 Groundhog Day 2027, and for the always-current countdown see the next Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day 2026 is Monday, 2 February 2026
Groundhog Day 2026 fell on Monday, 2 February 2026, which was 207 days before 28 August 2026. That is 29 weeks and 4 days, or 145 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 2026-02-02 in ISO form and 2/2/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 6 of 2026, and it is day 33 of 365.
How the date of Groundhog Day is decided
Groundhog Day is always 2 February.
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 Monday.
Groundhog 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.
Groundhog Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 2 February 2027 | Tuesday | Groundhog Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 2 February 2028 | Wednesday | Groundhog Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 2 February 2029 | Friday | Groundhog 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 145 working days above.