Hanukkah 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Wednesday, 13 December 2028, 838 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 Hanukkah 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next Hanukkah.
Hanukkah 2028 is Wednesday, 13 December 2028
There are 838 days between 28 August 2026 and Hanukkah 2028, which falls on Wednesday, 13 December 2028. That is 119 weeks and 5 days, or 572 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 2028-12-13 in ISO form and 12/13/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 50 of 2028, and it is day 348 of 366.
How the date of Hanukkah is decided
Begins at sunset on 25 Kislev in the Hebrew calendar and lasts eight nights, usually falling in December and occasionally late November.
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 2028 it works out as Wednesday 13 December.
This date is an estimate, not a fixed point. Hanukkah depends on observation rather than arithmetic, so the date announced locally can differ by a day from any date calculated in advance, and it can differ between countries in the same year. We show the arithmetic approximation and label it, rather than presenting it as settled. If the date matters — for travel, a booking or time off — confirm it with the community or authority you are following. How we produce these dates, and which of them are approximate, is set out on the holiday sources page.
Hanukkah 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.
Hanukkah in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 2 December 2029 | Sunday | Hanukkah 2029 |
| 2030 | 21 December 2030 | Saturday | Next Hanukkah |
| 2031 | 10 December 2031 | Wednesday | Next Hanukkah |
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 572 working days above.