Yom Kippur 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Saturday, 30 September 2028, 764 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 Yom Kippur 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur 2028 is Saturday, 30 September 2028
There are 764 days between 28 August 2026 and Yom Kippur 2028, which falls on Saturday, 30 September 2028. That is 109 weeks and 1 day, or 522 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 2028-09-30 in ISO form and 9/30/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 39 of 2028, and it is day 274 of 366.
How the date of Yom Kippur is decided
Begins at sunset on the eve of 10 Tishrei, nine days after Rosh Hashanah.
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 2028 it works out as Saturday 30 September.
This date is an estimate, not a fixed point. Yom Kippur depends on observation rather than arithmetic, so the date announced locally can differ by a day from any date calculated in advance, and it can differ between countries in the same year. We show the arithmetic approximation and label it, rather than presenting it as settled. If the date matters — for travel, a booking or time off — confirm it with the community or authority you are following. How we produce these dates, and which of them are approximate, is set out on the holiday sources page.
Yom Kippur 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.
Yom Kippur in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 19 September 2029 | Wednesday | Yom Kippur 2029 |
| 2030 | 7 October 2030 | Monday | Next Yom Kippur |
| 2031 | 27 September 2031 | Saturday | Next Yom Kippur |
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 522 working days above.