Holidays and bank days
How many working days are there in 2027?
Pick a month or the whole year and the holiday calendar: the counter gives working days, holidays and work hours.
Working days in a month or a year
Working days in 2027
249
| Weekdays, Monday to Friday | 261 |
| Holidays on a weekday | 12 |
| Working hours at 8 a day | 1,992 |
Holidays taken out: New Year’s Day, Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day and 8 more.
Year 2027 has 261 weekdays: 52 full weeks of five days, plus one extra Friday, because the year starts and ends on a Friday. Take out the federal holidays as federal employees observe them and 249 working days remain, or 1992 hours at eight a day. Twelve days come out rather than eleven, because New Year’s Day 2028 falls on a Saturday and its day off is Friday, December 31, 2027, while New Year’s Day 2027 itself is a Friday. The bank calendar gives a different number, 252 business days, because the Federal Reserve Banks stay open on the Fridays before Saturday holidays: Juneteenth on June 18, Christmas on December 24 and December 31. On the bank calendar the busiest months have 23 business days (March and December) and the shortest 19 (January and February). The counter above gives any month for either calendar, and the hours that go with it.
Count a weekday in any year
Mondays in 2027
52
| First | Monday, January 4, 2027 |
| Last | Monday, December 27, 2027 |
| Months with five Mondays | 4: March, May, August, November |
2027 has 365 days: 52 weeks and 1 extra day, so one weekday occurs 53 times.
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Working days in 2027, month by month
The table gives the weekdays of each month, the working days once federal days off are removed, the bank business days once Federal Reserve holidays are removed, and the holidays concerned. Federal days off come from the OPM tables for 2027 and 2028; bank holidays from the Federal Reserve schedule.
| Month | Weekdays | Federal working days | Bank business days | Federal days off |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21 | 19 | 19 | New Year’s Day, Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| February | 20 | 19 | 19 | Washington’s Birthday |
| March | 23 | 23 | 23 | |
| April | 22 | 22 | 22 | |
| May | 21 | 20 | 20 | Memorial Day |
| June | 22 | 21 | 22 | Juneteenth National Independence Day (observed) |
| July | 22 | 21 | 21 | Independence Day (observed) |
| August | 22 | 22 | 22 | |
| September | 22 | 21 | 21 | Labor Day |
| October | 21 | 20 | 20 | Columbus Day |
| November | 22 | 20 | 20 | Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day |
| December | 23 | 21 | 23 | Christmas Day (observed), New Year’s Day (observed) |
Why the totals differ
The eleven holidays of 5 U.S.C. 6103 do not all land on weekdays. In 2027, Juneteenth (June 19) and Christmas (December 25) fall on Saturdays and Independence Day (July 4) on a Sunday. Federal employees get a weekday off for each: the Friday before a Saturday holiday, the Monday after a Sunday one. The Federal Reserve Banks close only on the Monday after a Sunday holiday. Add the Friday off for New Year’s Day 2028 and the two calendars end three days apart.
Private employers choose their own paid holidays. Many give fewer than eleven; some add the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve. The “weekends only” option of the counter gives the raw weekday count to subtract your own list from.
Working days and pay
Salaried pay does not change with the number of working days in a month, but some pay does: daily-rate contracts, per-diem staff, and the hourly employees whose monthly hours follow the calendar. A month of 23 working days pays 184 hours at eight a day, against 152 for a month of 19. Federal pay smooths this by law: 5 U.S.C. 5504 sets the hourly rate at the annual rate divided by 2,087, and every biweekly period pays 80 hours, holidays included.
Counting a weekday instead of all working days is the other common need, for instance Mondays for a weekly meeting or Fridays for a weekly payday. The counter below gives any weekday of any year.
Count a weekday in any year
Fridays in 2027
53
| First | Friday, January 1, 2027 |
| Last | Friday, December 31, 2027 |
| Months with five Fridays | 5: January, April, July, October, December |
2027 has 365 days: 52 weeks and 1 extra day, so one weekday occurs 53 times.
Using the count for planning
Project budgets, staffing plans and service-level targets often run on working days. A team that needs one person every working day of 2027 needs 252 person-days on the bank calendar, before vacation and sick leave. A deadline set in working days slips past a holiday: ten working days from Monday, November 22, 2027 end on Tuesday, December 7, 2027 on the federal calendar, because Thanksgiving falls in between.
From 2026 to 2028
For comparison, 2026 has 250 federal working days and 2028 has 250. Counts between two exact dates, rather than whole months, are the job of the business days calculator; the Fridays in 2027 page covers the extra Friday that makes 2027 a 261-weekday year.