Labor Day 2026 is still ahead. It falls on Monday, 7 September 2026, 10 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 Labor Day 2027, and for the always-current countdown see the next Labor Day.
Labor Day 2026 is Monday, 7 September 2026
There are 10 days between 28 August 2026 and Labor Day 2026, which falls on Monday, 7 September 2026. That is 1 week and 3 days, or 5 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 2026-09-07 in ISO form and 9/7/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 37 of 2026, and it is day 250 of 365.
How the date of Labor Day is decided
The first Monday in September, so it falls between 1 and 7 September.
That makes it a floating date: it is pinned to a weekday rather than to a day number, so it is always a Monday but the date moves. In 2026 that is 7 September.
Labor 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. Because the rule always puts it on a Monday, it can never land at a weekend, so it never needs an observed-date shift. The observed date is the one our business days calculator skips.
Labor Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 6 September 2027 | Monday | Labor Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 4 September 2028 | Monday | Labor Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 3 September 2029 | Monday | Labor Day 2029 |
The weekday never changes; only the date does, inside the September window the rule allows.
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 5 working days above.