Groundhog Day 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Wednesday, 2 February 2028, 523 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 Groundhog Day 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day 2028 is Wednesday, 2 February 2028
There are 523 days between 28 August 2026 and Groundhog Day 2028, which falls on Wednesday, 2 February 2028. That is 74 weeks and 5 days, or 355 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 2028-02-02 in ISO form and 2/2/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 5 of 2028, and it is day 33 of 366.
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 2028 it is a Wednesday.
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 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 2 February 2029 | Friday | Groundhog Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 2 February 2030 | Saturday | Next Groundhog Day |
| 2031 | 2 February 2031 | Sunday | Next Groundhog 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 355 working days above.