Valentine's Day 2026 has already happened. It was Saturday, 14 February 2026, 186 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 Valentine's Day 2027, or to the always-current countdown.
Valentine's Day 2026 is Saturday, 14 February 2026
Valentine's Day 2026 fell on Saturday, 14 February 2026, which was 186 days before 19 August 2026. That is 26 weeks and 4 days, or 128 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 2026-02-14 in ISO form and 2/14/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 7 of 2026, and it is day 45 of 365.
How the date of Valentine's Day is decided
Valentine's Day is always 14 February. It is not a public holiday anywhere in the United States, so it never shifts.
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 2026 it is a Saturday.
Valentine's Day 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.
Valentine's Day in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 14 February 2027 | Sunday | Valentine's Day 2027 |
| 2028 | 14 February 2028 | Monday | Valentine's Day 2028 |
| 2029 | 14 February 2029 | Wednesday | Valentine's Day 2029 |
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 128 working days above.