New Year's Day 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Saturday, 1 January 2028, 491 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 New Year's Day 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next New Year's Day.
New Year's Day 2028 is Saturday, 1 January 2028
There are 491 days between 28 August 2026 and New Year's Day 2028, which falls on Saturday, 1 January 2028. That is 70 weeks and 1 day, or 333 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 2028-01-01 in ISO form and 1/1/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 52 of 2027, and it is day 1 of 366.
How the date of New Year's Day is decided
New Year's Day is always 1 January. As a federal holiday it moves to the nearest weekday when it falls on a weekend: to 31 December when 1 January is a Saturday, and to 2 January when it is a Sunday.
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 Saturday.
New Year's 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 Saturday, so the federal observance moves to Friday, 31 December 2027 — that is the day offices actually close. The observed date is the one our business days calculator skips.
New Year's Day in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 1 January 2029 | Monday | New Year's Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 1 January 2030 | Tuesday | Next New Year's Day |
| 2031 | 1 January 2031 | Wednesday | Next New Year's 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 333 working days above.