Memorial Day 2027 is still ahead. It falls on Monday, 31 May 2027, 276 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 Memorial Day 2028, and for the always-current countdown see the next Memorial Day.
Memorial Day 2027 is Monday, 31 May 2027
There are 276 days between 28 August 2026 and Memorial Day 2027, which falls on Monday, 31 May 2027. That is 39 weeks and 3 days, or 187 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 2027-05-31 in ISO form and 5/31/2027 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 22 of 2027, and it is day 151 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 2027 that is 31 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 2027
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2028 | 29 May 2028 | Monday | Memorial Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 28 May 2029 | Monday | Memorial Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 27 May 2030 | Monday | Next Memorial Day |
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 187 working days above.