How Many Days Until the Winter Solstice 2027?

the Winter Solstice 2027 is Wednesday, 22 December 2027

There are 481 days between 28 August 2026 and the Winter Solstice 2027, which falls on Wednesday, 22 December 2027. That is 68 weeks and 5 days, or 328 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 2027-12-22 in ISO form and 12/22/2027 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 51 of 2027, and it is day 356 of 365.

How the date of the Winter Solstice is decided

The December solstice, the shortest day in the northern hemisphere, falling on 21 or 22 December.

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 Wednesday 22 December.

the Winter Solstice 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.

the Winter Solstice in the years after 2027

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 328 working days above.