2026 Calendar with Week Numbers and Holidays

What stands out in 2026

2026 begins on a Thursday and ends on a Thursday. It is a common year of 365 days; the next leap year is 2028, two years later. Because it starts on a Thursday, 2026 has 53 ISO weeks: week 1 starts on Monday, December 29, 2025, and week 53 ends on Sunday, January 3, 2027.

Counting Monday through Friday, 2026 has 261 weekdays. Eleven of them are observed US federal holidays, which leaves 250 federal working days. Independence Day falls on a Saturday, so the federal holiday is observed on Friday, July 3. Thanksgiving is on November 26 and Christmas Day falls on a Friday.

Western (Gregorian) Easter is on Sunday, April 5, well inside its possible range of March 22 to April 25. There are thirteen full moons in 2026 by UTC date, with two in May: May 1 and May 31. The second of a pair is what is popularly called a blue moon. Friday the 13th occurs three times, in February, March, and November.

In the United States, clocks go forward on Sunday, March 8 and back on Sunday, November 1. The United Kingdom and the European Union change on Sunday, March 29 and Sunday, October 25. Between those dates the usual gap between New York and London shrinks by an hour: for 21 days in spring and 7 days in autumn the two cities are four hours apart instead of five, which is worth checking before booking transatlantic calls.

Reading the week numbers

The calendar uses ISO 8601 weeks, the convention common in Europe and in business reporting: weeks start on Monday, and week 1 is the week that contains the year's first Thursday (equivalently, the week containing January 4). A year therefore has 52 or 53 ISO weeks, and the first or last few days of January and December can belong to a neighboring week-year. In the United States, printed calendars usually start the week on Sunday and count January 1 as part of week 1, so a US week number can differ from the ISO one by a week. When a schedule says "week 14", confirm which system it means; the ISO vs US week comparison shows both side by side.

Printing the calendar

Use the print button or your browser's print command. The printed version leaves out the site header, navigation, and the reference tables, keeps each month whole, and lays the year out three months to a row; portrait orientation fits it on two pages. Holiday and moon symbols print in black, so the key above still applies on a monochrome printer.