Independence Day 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Tuesday, 4 July 2028, 676 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 Independence Day 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next Independence Day.
Independence Day 2028 is Tuesday, 4 July 2028
There are 676 days between 28 August 2026 and Independence Day 2028, which falls on Tuesday, 4 July 2028. That is 96 weeks and 4 days, or 460 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 2028-07-04 in ISO form and 7/4/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 27 of 2028, and it is day 186 of 366.
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 2028 it is a Tuesday.
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 2028 it falls on a Tuesday, a normal working day, so there is no observed-date shift this year. When it lands at a weekend the observance moves to the adjacent Friday or Monday. The observed date is the one our business days calculator skips.
Independence Day in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 4 July 2029 | Wednesday | Independence Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 4 July 2030 | Thursday | Next Independence Day |
| 2031 | 4 July 2031 | Friday | Next Independence 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 460 working days above.