Days Until Black Friday
Counting down to Black Friday, which is always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving, so it falls between November 23 and November 29. The next occurrence is Friday, November 27, 2026 — 51 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Black Friday is the biggest US shopping day of the year and the traditional start of the Christmas retail season. The name came from 1960s Philadelphia police slang for the chaotic crowds, and retailers later promoted the friendlier story that it is the day shops move 'into the black' — from loss to profit — for the year. It is a state holiday for government employees in some states, including California, but never a federal one.
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What this tool does
Counting down to Black Friday, which is always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving, so it falls between November 23 and November 29. The next occurrence is Friday, November 27, 2026 — 51 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Black Friday is the biggest US shopping day of the year and the traditional start of the Christmas retail season. The name came from 1960s Philadelphia police slang for the chaotic crowds, and retailers later promoted the friendlier story that it is the day shops move 'into the black' — from loss to profit — for the year. It is a state holiday for government employees in some states, including California, but never a federal one.
How to use the Days Until Black Friday
- Check Target date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2026-11-27.
- Review the Days Until Black Friday result and its exact-value comparison table.
- Verify assumptions before applying the result.
Formula
days remaining = (target UTC midnight − today's UTC midnight) / 86,400,000; weeks and days split the absolute day count by 7; the calendar countdown adds whole calendar months first, then leftover days
- target
- Target date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Counts whole calendar days from your device's current local date (today) to the target date, using UTC calendar days so daylight saving never shifts the result. Today itself is not counted: a target tomorrow is 1 day away. Past targets return a negative count.
Worked example
Days Until Black Friday: Target date (YYYY-MM-DD) = 2026-11-27. Counting down to Black Friday, which is always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving, so it falls between November 23 and November 29. The next occurrence is Friday, November 27, 2026 — 51 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Black Friday is the biggest US shopping day of the year and the traditional start of the Christmas retail season. The name came from 1960s Philadelphia police slang for the chaotic crowds, and retailers later promoted the friendlier story that it is the day shops move 'into the black' — from loss to profit — for the year. It is a state holiday for government employees in some states, including California, but never a federal one.
Inputs
- Target date (YYYY-MM-DD)2026-11-27
Result
- Days until Black Friday51
- Next Black FridayFriday, November 27, 2026
- Weeks and days7 weeks, 2 days
- Status51 days to go
- Following Black FridayFriday, November 26, 2027
Black Friday dates for the next six years
| Date | Weekday |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-27 | Friday |
| 2027-11-26 | Friday |
| 2028-11-24 | Friday |
| 2029-11-23 | Friday |
| 2030-11-29 | Friday |
| 2031-11-28 | Friday |
Results explained
- Days until Black Friday
- Whole calendar days from today to the next occurrence of Black Friday (always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving, so it falls between November 23 and November 29); zero on the day itself.
- Next Black Friday
- The calendar date of the upcoming Black Friday, derived from its scheduling rule rather than a fixed stored date.
- Weeks and days
- The same countdown split into whole weeks plus remaining days.
- Following Black Friday
- The occurrence after next, so the page still gives a target once this year's date passes.
Frequently asked questions
The next occurrence is Friday, November 27, 2026. Black Friday is always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving, so it falls between November 23 and November 29, so you can project any future year from that rule without a printed calendar.
51 days from today (the count reaches zero on the day itself and then restarts toward Friday, November 26, 2027). This page recounts from the current date every time it loads.
No. Black Friday is not a US federal holiday, so federal offices, banks and mail delivery run on a normal schedule — any closures are private or state-level decisions.
Black Friday is always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving, so it falls between November 23 and November 29. Black Friday is the biggest US shopping day of the year and the traditional start of the Christmas retail season.
Stores open with doorbuster discounts — increasingly starting online on Thanksgiving evening — and the day anchors a weekend that runs through Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.
Friday, November 26, 2027. The table on this page lists the next six occurrences with their weekdays so you can plan travel, events and time off well ahead.