Memorial Day 2026 has already happened. It was Monday, 25 May 2026, 86 days ago. This page is kept because the date and the rule behind it are still worth looking up — for the live countdown, go to Memorial Day 2027, or to the always-current countdown.
Memorial Day 2026 is Monday, 25 May 2026
Memorial Day 2026 fell on Monday, 25 May 2026, which was 86 days before 19 August 2026. That is 12 weeks and 2 days, or 59 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.
Memorial Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 31 May 2027 | Monday | Memorial Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 29 May 2028 | Monday | Memorial Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 28 May 2029 | Monday | Memorial Day 2029 |
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 59 working days above.