Western & secular
🍀 271 days until St Patrick's Day
St Patrick's Day falls on Wednesday, March 17, 2027 in your local time.
Saint Patrick's Day, 17 March, commemorates the patron saint of Ireland and the arrival of Christianity on the island. It is a public holiday in Ireland and widely celebrated across the Irish diaspora, especially in the United States, with parades, the colour green, shamrocks, and festivities. The date marks the traditional death date of Saint Patrick in the 5th century and is fixed in the calendar. What began as a religious feast day has become a broad cultural celebration of Irish heritage, with cities dyeing rivers and landmarks green for the occasion.
Date rule: Always 17 March.
The next St Patrick's Day is Wednesday, March 17, 2027 — in 272 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 St Patrick's Day 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, St Patrick's Day 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.
St Patrick's Day belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. Always 17 March. 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, March 17, 2027 |
| 2028 | Friday, March 17, 2028 |
| 2029 | Saturday, March 17, 2029 |
| 2030 | Sunday, March 17, 2030 |
| 2031 | Monday, March 17, 2031 |
The next St Patrick's Day is Wednesday, March 17, 2027 — in 272 days.
St Patrick's Day 2028 falls on Friday, March 17, 2028.
Yes. Always 17 March. Only the weekday changes from year to year.
No — the next St Patrick's Day is a Wednesday, a weekday.