How Many Days Until Palm Sunday?

Counting down to Palm Sunday, with the working-day count as well as the calendar-day count.

Days until Palm Sunday214days

Palm Sunday falls on Sunday, 21 March 2027

Falls on 21 March 2027
Day of week Sunday
Business days 144
In weeks 30 weeks and 4 days

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Palm Sunday 2027 is Sunday, 21 March 2027

There are 214 days between 19 August 2026 and Palm Sunday, which falls on Sunday, 21 March 2027. That is 30 weeks and 4 days, or 144 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 2027-03-21 in ISO form and 3/21/2027 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 11 of 2027, and it is day 80 of 365.

How the date of Palm Sunday is decided

The Sunday before Easter Sunday.

That makes it a computed date: there is no fixed day and no simple weekday rule, so it has to be worked out from a formula or a calendar of its own each year. In 2027 it works out as Sunday 21 March.

Palm Sunday is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.

Palm Sunday in the years after 2027

YearDateDayCountdown
2028 9 April 2028 Sunday Palm Sunday 2028
2029 25 March 2029 Sunday Palm Sunday 2029
2030 14 April 2030 Sunday

Both the date and the weekday move, because the rule is not tied to either.

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 144 working days above.

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Common questions

How many days until Palm Sunday?
The live count is at the top of this page and updates for your local date. It also shows the figure in weeks and days, and in working days.
What date is Palm Sunday this year?
The exact date is shown in the result panel, along with the day of the week and the dates for the next three years.
How is the date of Palm Sunday decided?
The Sunday before Easter Sunday.
How many working days until Palm Sunday?
Shown alongside the calendar-day count, with weekends and US federal holidays removed.