How many days until Rosh Hashanah?

About Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, falling on the first day of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar — typically September or early October in Gregorian terms. It opens the High Holy Days, a period of reflection and repentance that culminates in Yom Kippur ten days later. Customs include hearing the shofar, eating apples dipped in honey for a sweet year, and festive meals. Because the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, the Gregorian date shifts within an autumn window each year. This countdown computes the date with the Hebrew calendar engine shipped on the site.

Date rule: First day of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar.

When is the next Rosh Hashanah?

The next Rosh Hashanah is Saturday, September 12, 2026 — in 86 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 Rosh Hashanah 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 Saturday, which means it falls on a weekend — many workplaces that observe it grant a substitute day off on the nearest weekday instead. Across the next five occurrences listed below, Rosh Hashanah touches 3 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.

How the Rosh Hashanah date is set

Rosh Hashanah belongs to the jewish calendar tradition. First day of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar. 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 jewish 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.

Rosh Hashanah dates for the next five years

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