Presidents' Day 2026 has already happened. It was Monday, 16 February 2026, 193 days ago. 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 Presidents' Day 2027, and for the always-current countdown see the next Presidents' Day.
Presidents' Day 2026 is Monday, 16 February 2026
Presidents' Day 2026 fell on Monday, 16 February 2026, which was 193 days before 28 August 2026. That is 27 weeks and 4 days, or 135 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 2026-02-16 in ISO form and 2/16/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 8 of 2026, and it is day 47 of 365.
How the date of Presidents' Day is decided
The third Monday in February, between 15 and 21 February. Its legal federal name is Washington's Birthday; several states use different names and some observe a different day.
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 16 February.
Presidents' 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.
Presidents' Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 15 February 2027 | Monday | Presidents' Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 21 February 2028 | Monday | Presidents' Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 19 February 2029 | Monday | Presidents' Day 2029 |
The weekday never changes; only the date does, inside the February 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 135 working days above.