Western & secular
🌮 320 days until Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo falls on Wednesday, May 5, 2027 in your local time.
Cinco de Mayo, 5 May, marks the Mexican army's 1862 victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla. It is a relatively minor observance in most of Mexico but has become a prominent celebration of Mexican-American culture in the United States, with food, music, and parades. The date is fixed and commonly confused with Mexican Independence Day, which falls on 16 September. Cinco de Mayo's growth north of the border owes much to community organising and, later, commercial promotion, making it one of the more visible cultural holidays of the US spring.
Date rule: Always 5 May.
The next Cinco de Mayo is Wednesday, May 5, 2027 — in 321 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 Cinco de Mayo 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 Wednesday, 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, Cinco de Mayo touches 5 different weekdays and lands on a weekend 2 of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.
Cinco de Mayo belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. Always 5 May. 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.
| Year | Date |
|---|---|
| 2027 | Wednesday, May 5, 2027 |
| 2028 | Friday, May 5, 2028 |
| 2029 | Saturday, May 5, 2029 |
| 2030 | Sunday, May 5, 2030 |
| 2031 | Monday, May 5, 2031 |
The next Cinco de Mayo is Wednesday, May 5, 2027 — in 321 days.
Cinco de Mayo 2028 falls on Friday, May 5, 2028.
Yes. Always 5 May. Only the weekday changes from year to year.
No — the next Cinco de Mayo is a Wednesday, a weekday.