How many days until Thanksgiving?

About Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a US federal holiday on the fourth Thursday in November, a harvest festival of gratitude with roots in 17th-century colonial feasts. President Lincoln fixed the national date in 1863, and Congress later set it to the fourth Thursday. The date moves within the month each year but always lands on a Thursday. It centres on a large family meal — turkey, stuffing, and pie are traditional — and kicks off the year-end holiday season. The following day, Black Friday, opens the major retail shopping period. Canada observes its own Thanksgiving in October.

Date rule: Fourth Thursday in November (United States).

When is the next Thanksgiving?

The next Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26, 2026 — in 161 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 Thanksgiving 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, Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving date is set

Thanksgiving belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. Fourth Thursday in November (United States). 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.

Thanksgiving dates for the next five years

Thanksgiving FAQ

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