How many days until Yom Kippur?

About Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, falling on the tenth of Tishrei, ten days after Rosh Hashanah. It is observed with a 25-hour fast, intensive prayer, and abstention from work, as a day of repentance and reconciliation. In Israel public life largely stops. Because the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, the Gregorian date moves within an autumn window from year to year. This countdown derives the date from the Hebrew calendar engine shipped on the site, the same one behind the Hebrew calendar converter.

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

When is the next Yom Kippur?

The next Yom Kippur is Monday, September 21, 2026 — in 95 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 Yom Kippur 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 Monday, 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, Yom Kippur 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 Yom Kippur date is set

Yom Kippur belongs to the jewish calendar tradition. Tenth 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.

Yom Kippur dates for the next five years

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