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About Bonfire Night

Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night, on 5 November, marks the failure of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the British Parliament. It is observed mainly in the United Kingdom with bonfires, fireworks, and the burning of effigies, accompanied by the rhyme "Remember, remember the fifth of November." The date is fixed and tied directly to the historical event. Though not a public holiday, it is a major communal occasion, with organised displays in towns and cities and home fireworks across the country on or around the date.

Date rule: Always 5 November.

When is the next Bonfire Night?

The next Bonfire Night is Thursday, November 5, 2026 — in 140 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 Bonfire Night 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 Thursday, 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, Bonfire Night touches 5 different weekdays and lands on a weekend 1 of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.

How the Bonfire Night date is set

Bonfire Night belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. Always 5 November. Because the date is fixed, the only thing that changes from year to year is the weekday it falls on, and whether countries that observe it move the public-holiday day when it lands on a weekend. That makes it straightforward to plan years ahead: the date in the table below is the date every time.

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.

Bonfire Night dates for the next five years

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