How Many Days Until Memorial Day 2026?

Memorial Day 2026 is Monday, 25 May 2026

Memorial Day 2026 fell on Monday, 25 May 2026, which was 95 days before 28 August 2026. That is 13 weeks and 4 days, or 66 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 2026-05-25 in ISO form and 5/25/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 22 of 2026, and it is day 145 of 365.

How the date of Memorial Day is decided

The last Monday in May, so it falls between 25 and 31 May. It has been fixed to a Monday since the Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect in 1971.

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 25 May.

Memorial 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.

Memorial Day in the years after 2026

The weekday never changes; only the date does, inside the May 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 66 working days above.