Judaism · 2028
In 2028, Yom Kippur falls on a Wednesday.
Yom Kippur 2028 falls on Wednesday, September 27, 2028. That is a Wednesday, a regular working weekday in most countries. It is the 271st day of 2028 and sits in ISO week 39. If you are planning around it, the day of the week matters as much as the date itself, because it decides whether the observance creates a long weekend, a midweek pause, or a day that has to be moved under local substitute-holiday rules.
Yom Kippur falls midweek on a Wednesday, splitting the working week in two rather than extending a weekend.
Compared with 2027, when it fell on October 9, Yom Kippur 2028 moves about 11 days earlier in the Gregorian calendar. This drift is normal for a holiday tied to a lunar or lunisolar calendar rather than a fixed civil date.
How the date moves in the years either side of 2028. Each year links to its own page with a countdown and the full day-of-week detail.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It falls on the tenth day of Tishrei, ten days after Rosh Hashanah, and closes the High Holy Days. Many Jewish communities observe it with fasting, intensive prayer, repentance, and abstention from ordinary work. Synagogue services and communal reflection are central to the day. Since the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, Yom Kippur's Gregorian date changes each year while remaining in September or October. This page uses timekit's existing 2026-2035 religious holidays data, generated by the Hebrew calendar engine. In religious observance, Yom Kippur begins at sundown on the previous Gregorian date.
Calendar note: Computed with the local Hebrew calendar engine.