2027 Calendar: Holidays, Key Dates, and Major Events

2027 Calendar is a common (non-leap) year of 365 days that begins on Friday, January 1, 2027, and ends on Friday, December 31, 2027.

The year carries 11 U.S. federal holidays, a total solar eclipse on August 2, and a cluster of movable religious holidays — Easter, Ramadan, Passover, and Chinese New Year — that land unusually early or late compared with typical years because of leap-month adjustments in the Hebrew and Islamic calendars.

Is 2027 a leap year? No. 2027 is not divisible by 4, so it is a common year with 365 days, not 366. The next leap year after 2027 is 2028.

This guide covers holidays, key dates, and the historical or calendrical reasoning behind them.

2027 Calendar at a Glance

The 2027 calendar starts on a Friday and runs entirely as a common year, meaning every date falls one weekday later than the equivalent date in 2026 (two weekdays later after February 28, since 2026 was also a common year).

The table below summarizes the defining structural facts.

Attribute	2027 Value
Total days	365 (common year)
Year starts	Friday, January 1, 2027
Year ends	Friday, December 31, 2027
U.S. federal holidays	11
Federal holidays requiring an “observed” date shift	3 (Juneteenth, Independence Day, Christmas Day)
Daylight Saving Time	Begins Sunday, March 14; ends Sunday, November 7
Marquee astronomical event	Total solar eclipse, Monday, August 2, 2027
Chinese zodiac year	Year of the Goat (also called Sheep or Ram)

2027 Calendar vs. 2026 Calendar: What Changed

The 2027 calendar differs from the 2026 calendar in three structural ways: it starts one weekday later (Friday instead of Thursday), it carries three fixed-date federal holidays that require an observed-date shift instead of one, and its Easter date falls eight days earlier.

These shifts cascade through the rest of the year’s date math.

Factor	2026	2027
Year starts on	Thursday, January 1	Friday, January 1
Leap year	No	No
Easter Sunday (Western)	Sunday, April 5, 2026	Sunday, March 28, 2027
Thanksgiving Day	Thursday, November 26, 2026	Thursday, November 25, 2027
Memorial Day	Monday, May 25, 2026	Monday, May 31, 2027
Labor Day	Monday, September 7, 2026	Monday, September 6, 2027
Fixed holidays landing on a weekend	1 (Independence Day)	3 (Juneteenth, Independence Day, Christmas Day)

The jump from one to three weekend-landing fixed holidays is the single biggest practical difference for payroll and PTO planning between the two years, since each shift changes which weekday federal employees receive as a substitute day off.

2027 U.S. Federal Holidays: Dates, Days, and Observance Rules

There are 11 U.S. federal holidays in 2027, unchanged in count from 2026 but different in weekday distribution.

Juneteenth National Independence Day, added as the newest federal holiday by law in June 2021, is included alongside the ten holidays that predate it.

Holiday	Official Name	Date	Day of Week	Federal Observance (if shifted)
New Year’s Day	New Year’s Day	January 1, 2027	Friday	—
MLK Day	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.	January 18, 2027	Monday	—
Presidents’ Day	Washington’s Birthday	February 15, 2027	Monday	—
Memorial Day	Memorial Day	May 31, 2027	Monday	—
Juneteenth	Juneteenth National Independence Day	June 19, 2027	Saturday	Observed Friday, June 18, 2027
Independence Day	Independence Day	July 4, 2027	Sunday	Observed Monday, July 5, 2027
Labor Day	Labor Day	September 6, 2027	Monday	—
Columbus Day	Columbus Day	October 11, 2027	Monday	—
Veterans Day	Veterans Day	November 11, 2027	Thursday	—
Thanksgiving Day	Thanksgiving Day	November 25, 2027	Thursday	—
Christmas Day	Christmas Day	December 25, 2027	Saturday	Observed Friday, December 24, 2027

Columbus Day is not celebrated under that name everywhere: several states and cities substitute Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the same date (October 11, 2027) as a matter of state or local law, while the federal designation remains Columbus Day.

Which 2027 Federal Holidays Fall on a Weekend

Three of the 11 federal holidays in 2027 fall on a Saturday or Sunday: Juneteenth (Saturday), Independence Day (Sunday), and Christmas Day (Saturday).

Each triggers a federal in-lieu-of observance on an adjacent weekday under Title 5 of the U.S. Code.

How “Observed” Dates Work When a Holiday Lands on a Saturday or Sunday

Federal law shifts a holiday to a nearby weekday when it falls on a non-workday, using two rules: a Saturday holiday is observed the preceding Friday, and a Sunday holiday is observed the following Monday.

Applied to 2027, Juneteenth (Saturday, June 19) moves back to Friday, June 18; Christmas Day (Saturday, December 25) moves back to Friday, December 24; and Independence Day (Sunday, July 4) moves forward to Monday, July 5.

This federal rule does not bind private employers, who may choose different substitute days or none at all.

2027 Calendar Month by Month

January 2027

January 2027 opens the year on a Friday and contains two holidays: New Year’s Day (Friday, January 1) and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday, January 18). Both create built-in three-day weekends without requiring a bridge day.

February 2027

February 2027 is the year’s most holiday-dense month, containing Groundhog Day (Tuesday, February 2), the expected start of Ramadan (Monday, February 8), Chinese New Year (Saturday, February 6), Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday (Tuesday, February 9), Ash Wednesday (Wednesday, February 10), Valentine’s Day and Super Bowl LXI (both Sunday, February 14), and Presidents’ Day (Monday, February 15).

Mardi Gras falls in February rather than March in 2027 because Easter is unusually early (March 28); generic yearly templates that default Mardi Gras to March will misstate this year’s date.

March 2027

March 2027 centers on the Lenten and Easter cycle: Daylight Saving Time begins (Sunday, March 14), St. Patrick’s Day falls midweek (Wednesday, March 17), Palm Sunday is March 21, Good Friday is March 26, and Western Easter Sunday closes the month on March 28.

April 2027

April 2027 contains Tax Day (Thursday, April 15), Earth Day (Thursday, April 22), and the start of Passover at sundown on Wednesday, April 21. The 2027 NFL Draft also opens in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 29, running into May.

May 2027

May 2027 opens with the final day of Passover (April 29 in the Diaspora) and the final day of the NFL Draft (Saturday, May 1), followed by Orthodox Easter (Sunday, May 2), Cinco de Mayo (Wednesday, May 5), Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 9), and Memorial Day (Monday, May 31), which closes out the month and unofficially opens summer.

June 2027

June 2027 contains Juneteenth (Saturday, June 19, observed Friday, June 18), Father’s Day (Sunday, June 20), and the opening match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 in Brazil (Thursday, June 24).

July 2027

July 2027 is dominated by Independence Day, which falls on Sunday, July 4, and is observed Monday, July 5, for federal employees. The FIFA Women’s World Cup continues in Brazil throughout the month.

August 2027

August 2027 contains the year’s marquee astronomical event: a total solar eclipse on Monday, August 2, 2027, crossing southern Spain, Gibraltar, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. The FIFA Women’s World Cup final is played in Brazil on Sunday, July 25, just before the month begins.

September 2027

September 2027 contains only one federal holiday, Labor Day (Monday, September 6). Rosh Hashanah, which falls in September in most years, is delayed into October in 2027 (see the Jewish holidays section below).

October 2027

October 2027 is the year’s busiest month for religious and sporting observances: the Rugby World Cup 2027 opens in Australia (Friday, October 1), Rosh Hashanah begins the same evening, Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day falls on Monday, October 11 (the same day Yom Kippur ends), Sukkot runs October 15–22, Diwali falls on Friday, October 29, and Halloween closes the month on Sunday, October 31.

November 2027

November 2027 contains Daylight Saving Time’s end (Sunday, November 7), Veterans Day (Thursday, November 11), the Rugby World Cup 2027 final in Sydney (Saturday, November 13), Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 25), and Black Friday (Friday, November 26).

December 2027

December 2027 contains Hanukkah, which begins at sundown on Friday, December 24, and Christmas Day, which falls on Saturday, December 25, and is observed Friday, December 24, for federal employees. New Year’s Eve falls on Friday, December 31, 2027, aligning the holiday with the weekend.

Movable and Religious Holidays in 2027

When Is Easter 2027 (Western and Orthodox)?

Western Easter falls on Sunday, March 28, 2027, while Orthodox Easter (Pascha) falls more than five weeks later, on Sunday, May 2, 2027.

The gap occurs because the two traditions calculate the paschal full moon on different calendars — Gregorian for Western churches, Julian for most Orthodox churches — and Orthodox practice additionally requires Pascha to fall after the start of Jewish Passover.

Why the 2027 Calendar’s Movable Holidays Shift Each Year

The 2027 calendar’s movable holidays shift from year to year because Easter, Ramadan, Passover, and Chinese New Year are each anchored to lunar or lunisolar cycles rather than the fixed 365-day Gregorian year.

Western Easter uses the Computus, a formula fixing it as the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon following the March 21 ecclesiastical equinox; applied to 2027, this yields March 28.

The Hebrew calendar inserts a leap month (Adar II) in 7 of every 19 years — the Metonic cycle — to keep Passover anchored to spring; 2027 falls in Hebrew year 5787, a leap year, which is why both Passover (April 21) and the following Rosh Hashanah (October 1, marking leap-year-delayed Hebrew year 5788) land later than usual.

Ramadan, tied to the purely lunar 354-day Islamic calendar with no leap-month correction, instead drifts about 11 days earlier every Gregorian year, landing in early February in 2027.

Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr 2027

Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin on Monday, February 8, 2027, based on the Umm al-Qura astronomical calendar used by Saudi Arabia and cross-checked against U.S. Naval Observatory lunar data.

The month runs 29 or 30 days depending on the sighting of the Shawwal crescent moon, placing Eid al-Fitr around Tuesday, March 9, or Wednesday, March 10, 2027. Final dates are confirmed locally by moon-sighting committees and can vary by one day between countries.

Passover and the Jewish Holidays in 2027

Passover 2027 begins at sundown on Wednesday, April 21, 2027, and runs eight days in the Diaspora (through nightfall Thursday, April 29) or seven days in Israel (through nightfall Wednesday, April 28).

Because Hebrew year 5787 is a leap year, the fall holidays that follow are also delayed: Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown Friday, October 1, and Yom Kippur falls on Sunday–Monday, October 10–11 — both later than their typical September placement.

Holiday	2027 Start (sundown)	2027 End (nightfall)	Israel Duration	Diaspora Duration
Passover (Pesach)	Wednesday, April 21	Wed. Apr. 28 (Israel) / Thu. Apr. 29 (Diaspora)	7 days	8 days
Rosh Hashanah	Friday, October 1	Sunday, October 3	2 days	2 days
Yom Kippur	Sunday, October 10	Monday, October 11	1 day	1 day
Sukkot	Friday, October 15	Friday, October 22	7 days	8 days (incl. Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah)
Hanukkah	Friday, December 24	Saturday, January 1, 2028	8 days	8 days

The Israel-versus-Diaspora length difference for Passover and Sukkot traces to an ancient uncertainty over new-moon sightings: communities outside Israel historically observed an extra day as a safeguard, a practice that persists today even though the calendar is now fixed by calculation rather than sighting.

Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) 2027

Chinese New Year 2027 falls on Saturday, February 6, 2027, marking the start of the Year of the Goat (also known as the Year of the Sheep or Ram) in the 12-year zodiac cycle.

Mainland China’s Spring Festival public holiday period runs seven days from Chinese New Year’s Eve (Friday, February 5) through February 11, 2027.

Diwali 2027

Diwali 2027 falls on Friday, October 29, 2027, the day of Krishna Amavasya in the Hindu month of Kartika. The broader five-day festival period begins with Dhanteras on Wednesday, October 27, includes Naraka Chaturdashi on Thursday, October 28, and closes with Govardhan Puja (October 30) and Bhai Dooj (October 31).

Major Sports, Cultural, and Civic Events in 2027

Super Bowl LXI — Date, Location, and What to Know

Super Bowl LXI is scheduled for Sunday, February 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers. It is the first Super Bowl in NFL history played on Valentine’s Day and the second time SoFi Stadium has hosted the game.

2027 NFL Draft

The 2027 NFL Draft runs Thursday, April 29, through Saturday, May 1, 2027, in Washington, D.C. — the city’s first time hosting since 1940.

The event is staged jointly by the NFL, the Washington Commanders, and Events DC, with the main draft theater anchored on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Rugby World Cup 2027 (Australia)

The Men’s Rugby World Cup 2027 runs October 1 through November 13, 2027, in Australia, expanded to 24 teams for the first time and played across seven host cities: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney, and Townsville. The final is scheduled for Accor Stadium in Sydney.

FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 (Brazil)

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 runs June 24 through July 25, 2027, in Brazil — the first Women’s World Cup staged in South America, played across eight host cities including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, with 32 national teams competing in 64 matches.

Astronomical Events: The August 2027 Total Solar Eclipse and Daylight Saving Time

Total Solar Eclipse — Monday, August 2, 2027

A total solar eclipse crosses Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East on Monday, August 2, 2027, with totality reaching a maximum duration of 6 minutes, 23 seconds near Luxor, Egypt.

That makes it the longest total solar eclipse visible from land until 2114, though it is not the longest of the 21st century overall — the July 22, 2009, eclipse held totality for 6 minutes, 39 seconds. An estimated 89 million people live within the path of totality.

Path of Totality and Best Viewing Locations

The path of totality begins over the Atlantic Ocean west of the Strait of Gibraltar, crosses southern Spain and Gibraltar, sweeps through Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, and exits over Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the northeastern tip of Somalia.

The path reaches its maximum width of 258 kilometers (160 miles) and passes directly over the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, offering combined eclipse duration and historically reliable clear-sky odds in the range of 1–20% cloud cover probability in August.

Daylight Saving Time Start and End Dates in 2027

Daylight Saving Time in 2027 begins at 2:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 14, 2027, and ends at 2:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, November 7, 2027, under the U.S. rule fixing DST to the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November.

2027 Civic and Financial Dates

Tax Deadline 2027

The federal individual income tax filing deadline for the 2026 tax year falls on Thursday, April 15, 2027. Because April 15 lands on a weekday with no competing federal or D.C. holiday nearby, the deadline is not pushed back, unlike in years when April 15 falls on a weekend.

Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) 2027

The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce the official 2027 COLA on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, after the release of September 2026 inflation data.

As of August 2026, independent forecasters project the 2027 COLA at approximately 3.5% to 3.6%, based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) — up from the 2.8% COLA that took effect in January 2026.

The adjustment is calculated from the average CPI-W across July, August, and September, so the figure is not finalized until all three months of data are in.

Long Weekends and PTO Planning for 2027

Best Long Weekends in 2027

Nine of the 11 federal holidays in 2027 fall on a Friday, a Monday, or shift to one through the observed-date rule, producing a built-in three-day weekend without any vacation days spent.

Only Veterans Day and Thanksgiving fall on a Thursday, requiring a single bridge day to extend into a four-day break.

How a Single Bridge Day Extends Each 2027 Holiday

Adding one strategically placed paid-time-off day next to each of the 11 federal holidays converts every one of them into a four-day weekend. Applied consistently across the year, this uses 11 total PTO days to produce 11 separate four-day breaks — 44 days off in total.

Holiday Period	Anchor Holiday Date	Bridge Day to Take Off	Resulting 4-Day Break
New Year’s	Fri, Jan 1	Mon, Jan 4	Jan 1–4
MLK Day	Mon, Jan 18	Fri, Jan 15	Jan 15–18
Presidents’ Day	Mon, Feb 15	Fri, Feb 12	Feb 12–15
Memorial Day	Mon, May 31	Fri, May 28	May 28–31
Juneteenth (observed)	Fri, Jun 18	Mon, Jun 21	Jun 18–21
Independence Day (observed)	Mon, Jul 5	Fri, Jul 2	Jul 2–5
Labor Day	Mon, Sep 6	Fri, Sep 3	Sep 3–6
Columbus Day	Mon, Oct 11	Fri, Oct 8	Oct 8–11
Veterans Day	Thu, Nov 11	Fri, Nov 12	Nov 11–14
Thanksgiving	Thu, Nov 25	Fri, Nov 26	Nov 25–28
Christmas (observed)	Fri, Dec 24	Mon, Dec 27	Dec 24–27

This schedule does not apply to employees whose employer does not observe Juneteenth or Columbus Day, or to anyone outside a Monday-through-Friday, federal-holiday-aligned work schedule; shift workers and employers with a fixed PTO-blackout calendar around quarter-end will not be able to replicate every stretch above.

School and Academic Year Context for 2026–2027

Most U.S. K-12 districts run the 2026–2027 academic year from late August 2026 through early-to-mid June 2027, with winter break typically spanning the last two weeks of December 2026 and 2027 spring break commonly scheduled in March or April 2027 — a placement that, in 2027, often overlaps with Western Easter (March 28) or the start of Passover (April 21), depending on the district’s fixed spring-break week.

Individual district and university calendars vary and are set locally; this section describes the general pattern, not a specific institution’s dates.

Major Sports, Cultural, and Entertainment Events in 2027

Golf Majors and the Ryder Cup

Event	Dates	Venue
The Masters	Thursday–Sunday, April 8–11, 2027	Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
PGA Championship	Thursday–Sunday, May 20–23, 2027	PGA Frisco (Fields Ranch East), Frisco, Texas — first men’s major in Texas in over 60 years
U.S. Open	Thursday–Sunday, June 17–20, 2027	Pebble Beach Golf Links, California
The Open Championship	Thursday–Sunday, July 15–18, 2027	Old Course, St Andrews, Scotland
Ryder Cup (46th, centenary edition)	Competition Friday–Sunday, September 17–19, 2027 (build-up days from September 13)	Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ireland — first Ryder Cup in Ireland since 2006

Tennis Grand Slams

Tournament	Dates	Venue
Australian Open	January 17–31, 2027	Melbourne Park, Melbourne
French Open (Roland-Garros)	May 23 – June 6, 2027	Stade Roland-Garros, Paris
Wimbledon	June 28 – July 11, 2027	All England Club, London
US Open	August 29 – September 12, 2027	USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, New York

Global Team and Championship Events

Event	Dates	Host
Rugby World Cup (men’s)	October 1 – November 13, 2027	Australia (7 host cities; final at Accor Stadium, Sydney)
FIFA Women’s World Cup	June 24 – July 25, 2027	Brazil (first Women’s World Cup in South America)
World Athletics Championships	September 11–19, 2027	Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China
ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup	October–November 2027 (exact dates not yet released)	South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia (14 teams, 54 matches)
ICC World Test Championship Final	June 2027	Lord’s, London

College and Professional Football

Event	Date	Venue
College Football Playoff National Championship (2026 season)	Monday, January 25, 2027	Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas
Super Bowl LXI	Sunday, February 14, 2027	SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California
2027 NFL Draft	Thursday–Saturday, April 29 – May 1, 2027	Washington, D.C.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (March Madness)	Selection Sunday March 14; tournament March 16 – April 5, 2027	Final Four (semifinals April 3, championship April 5) at Ford Field, Detroit

Selection Sunday and the Oscars fall on the same night in 2027 (Sunday, March 14) — a scheduling overlap worth noting for any content on either event.

Entertainment and Awards

Event	Date	Venue
69th Grammy Awards	Sunday, February 7, 2027	Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles — first Grammy telecast on ABC/Disney+/Hulu since 1972, ending a 50-year run on CBS
99th Academy Awards (Oscars)	Sunday, March 14, 2027	Dolby Theatre, Hollywood — nominations announced January 21, 2027; hosted by Conan O’Brien for a third consecutive year
Star Wars: Starfighter (theatrical release)	Friday, May 28, 2027	Directed by Shawn Levy; stars Ryan Gosling
Avengers: Secret Wars (theatrical release)	Friday, December 17, 2027	Marvel Studios; follows Avengers: Doomsday (December 2026)

Award-show dates not yet officially confirmed as of this writing — including the Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and BAFTAs — are excluded here rather than stated as fixed; treating estimated dates as confirmed is a common accuracy problem in generic 2027 calendar content.

Seasonal Markers and Additional Notable Dates in 2027

Event	Date	Notes
Valentine’s Day	Sunday, February 14, 2027	Coincides with Super Bowl LXI
Spring (March) Equinox	Saturday, March 20, 2027	Occurs 20:26 UTC; holds as March 20 across all U.S. time zones
Coachella — Weekend 1	Friday–Sunday, April 9–11, 2027	Empire Polo Club, Indio, California
Coachella — Weekend 2	Friday–Sunday, April 16–18, 2027	Same lineup repeats both weekends; 2027 artist bill not yet announced (expected between September 2026 and January 2027)
Kentucky Derby	Saturday, May 1, 2027	Churchill Downs, Louisville — traditionally the first Saturday in May
Summer (June) Solstice	Monday, June 21, 2027	Longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere
Patriot Day	Saturday, September 11, 2027	26th anniversary of the September 11 attacks
Autumn (September) Equinox	Thursday, September 23, 2027	Falls Eastern through Mountain time; in the Pacific time zone it lands Wednesday, September 22, at 11:02 p.m.
Election Day	Tuesday, November 2, 2027	Off-cycle (odd) year — state and local races only, no federal midterm
Winter (December) Solstice	Tuesday, December 21, 2027	Shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day	Tuesday, December 7, 2027
Kwanzaa	Saturday, December 26, 2027 – Friday, January 1, 2028

What Remains Genuinely Unannounced

Several items commonly listed on generic “2027 events” pages do not yet have official dates and should not be presented as fixed: the exact ICC Cricket World Cup match schedule, the 2027 NFL regular-season schedule, the MLB All-Star Game date and site, the NASCAR Cup Series championship date, Amazon Prime Day‘s exact July dates, and the Emmy/Golden Globe/SAG/BAFTA ceremony dates.

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