Independence Day 2026 has already happened. It was Saturday, 4 July 2026, 55 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 Independence Day 2027, and for the always-current countdown see the next Independence Day.
Independence Day 2026 is Saturday, 4 July 2026
Independence Day 2026 fell on Saturday, 4 July 2026, which was 55 days before 28 August 2026. That is 7 weeks and 6 days, or 39 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 2026-07-04 in ISO form and 7/4/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 27 of 2026, and it is day 185 of 365.
How the date of Independence Day is decided
Independence Day is always 4 July. When it falls on a Saturday the federal holiday is observed on Friday 3 July; when it falls on a Sunday, on Monday 5 July.
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 Saturday.
Independence 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 Saturday, so the federal observance moves to Friday, 3 July 2026 — that is the day offices actually close. The observed date is the one our business days calculator skips.
Independence Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 4 July 2027 | Sunday | Independence Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 4 July 2028 | Tuesday | Independence Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 4 July 2029 | Wednesday | Independence 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 39 working days above.