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About Black Friday

Black Friday is the shopping day after US Thanksgiving, falling on the fourth Friday in November. The name originally described heavy post-holiday traffic and later the point at which retailers turned a profit — moving from the red into the black. It is not a public holiday but anchors the start of the year-end shopping season, with deep discounts online and in stores. The event has spread far beyond the United States, with retailers worldwide running Black Friday sales, often extending into Cyber Monday the following week.

Date rule: Day after US Thanksgiving — fourth Friday in November.

When is the next Black Friday?

The next Black Friday is Friday, November 27, 2026 — in 162 days. The countdown at the top of this page updates every second in your own time zone, so the number stays accurate wherever you are reading from. Because Black Friday is treated as an all-day calendar date rather than a fixed clock time, the countdown rolls over at midnight in your local zone, not at midnight UTC. If you are coordinating across regions, set reminders against this date and let each person's device localise it.

This year the holiday lands on a Friday, which means it falls on a working day, so any public-holiday closures apply on the day itself in countries that observe it. Across the next five occurrences listed below, Black Friday touches the same weekday each time and lands on a weekend none of of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.

How the Black Friday date is set

Black Friday belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. Day after US Thanksgiving — fourth Friday in November. Movable dates like this are resolved from the underlying calendar rule rather than a fixed Gregorian day, which is why the date moves around the calendar each year. Timekit computes every occurrence in the table below from that same rule, so the dates stay consistent with the rest of the site's calendar tools and update automatically as the years roll forward.

If you want the dates in your own calendar app, use the live countdown above, then jump to the western & secular countdowns or the full holiday list to line up the surrounding observances. For a date-by-date planning view, the five-year table gives you the exact weekday for each upcoming year at a glance.

Black Friday dates for the next five years

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