What Day of the Week Is Christmas? 2026 to 2035

Christmas weekday, 2026 to 2035

Dec 24 is included because it decides whether the holiday week starts with a long weekend.

Christmas Eve has its own page, with a live count: see how many days until Christmas Eve. New Year’s Day falls exactly a week after Christmas, so it is always the same weekday as the Dec 25 column.

Why the weekday moves, and by how much

A normal year has 365 days, which is 52 whole weeks plus 1 day. So any calendar date falls one weekday later than it did the year before. A leap year has 366 days, which is 52 weeks plus 2 days, so the date moves two weekdays. The extra day is February 29, which comes before December, so the two-day jump shows up in the Christmas that follows it.

Worked example: Christmas 2026 is a Friday. 2027 is not a leap year, so Christmas 2027 is one weekday later, a Saturday. 2028 is a leap year, so Christmas 2028 is two weekdays after that, a Monday (Sunday, then Monday). The next two-day step is 2032, which is why Christmas goes from a Thursday in 2031 to a Saturday.

Leap years are years divisible by four, except for century years not divisible by 400. Every row of the table above is just that one-or-two-day step applied to the row before.

Christmas 2027, and far-off years like 2050

Christmas 2027 is Saturday, December 25. Christmas Eve is Friday, December 24, which is also the day US federal employees get off, because the holiday is observed on the Friday (as of November 9, 2026).

Christmas 2050 is a Sunday; type any year from 1900 to 2100 into the box above. For a live day count, use the Christmas countdown.

Christmas on a weekend or Friday: which day is the day off?

• Friday (2026, 2037, 2043, 2048): the holiday is that day, a three-day weekend for Monday-to-Friday workers.
• Saturday (2027, 2032): US federal employees observe Friday, December 24.
• Sunday (2033): US federal employees observe Monday, December 26.

This is the US federal rule: a holiday is usually observed on Monday if it falls on a Sunday and on Friday if it falls on a Saturday (as of November 9, 2026). Private employers, schools, shops and other countries set their own.

Weekdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas

Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of November, moves between November 22 and 28, so the stretch to Christmas runs from 27 to 33 days. The count of Monday-to-Friday weekdays matters more for work and shipping deadlines. The table counts every date after Thanksgiving up to and including December 25, so Christmas Day itself is included when it is a weekday. It does not subtract any other holidays; for that, use the business days calculator. The date of Thanksgiving is explained in the Thanksgiving countdown.

Worked example, 2026: Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26. The next date is Friday, November 27 and the last is Friday, December 25, which is 29 days. Of those, 21 fall on a weekday (Nov 27 to Dec 25 has four full Monday-to-Friday weeks plus November 27 itself).

The shortest season in the table is 2030, with 19 weekdays; the longest are 2029 and 2035, with 23. For the same stretch measured in weeks, see weeks until Christmas.