Days Until Good Friday
Counting down to Good Friday, which is always the Friday two days before Easter Sunday, so it moves with the computus between March 20 and April 23. The next occurrence is Friday, March 26, 2027 — 170 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and sits inside Holy Week, two days before Easter. It is a public holiday in about a dozen US states — including Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — but it has never been a federal holiday.
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What this tool does
Counting down to Good Friday, which is always the Friday two days before Easter Sunday, so it moves with the computus between March 20 and April 23. The next occurrence is Friday, March 26, 2027 — 170 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and sits inside Holy Week, two days before Easter. It is a public holiday in about a dozen US states — including Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — but it has never been a federal holiday.
How to use the Days Until Good Friday
- Check Target date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2027-03-26.
- Review the Days Until Good 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 Good Friday: Target date (YYYY-MM-DD) = 2027-03-26. Counting down to Good Friday, which is always the Friday two days before Easter Sunday, so it moves with the computus between March 20 and April 23. The next occurrence is Friday, March 26, 2027 — 170 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and sits inside Holy Week, two days before Easter. It is a public holiday in about a dozen US states — including Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — but it has never been a federal holiday.
Inputs
- Target date (YYYY-MM-DD)2027-03-26
Result
- Days until Good Friday170
- Next Good FridayFriday, March 26, 2027
- Weeks and days24 weeks, 2 days
- Status170 days to go
- Following Good FridayFriday, April 14, 2028
Good Friday dates for the next six years
| Date | Weekday |
|---|---|
| 2027-03-26 | Friday |
| 2028-04-14 | Friday |
| 2029-03-30 | Friday |
| 2030-04-19 | Friday |
| 2031-04-11 | Friday |
| 2032-03-26 | Friday |
Results explained
- Days until Good Friday
- Whole calendar days from today to the next occurrence of Good Friday (always the Friday two days before Easter Sunday, so it moves with the computus between March 20 and April 23); zero on the day itself.
- Next Good Friday
- The calendar date of the upcoming Good 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 Good 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, March 26, 2027. Good Friday is always the Friday two days before Easter Sunday, so it moves with the computus between March 20 and April 23, so you can project any future year from that rule without a printed calendar.
170 days from today (the count reaches zero on the day itself and then restarts toward Friday, April 14, 2028). This page recounts from the current date every time it loads.
No. Good 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.
Good Friday is always the Friday two days before Easter Sunday, so it moves with the computus between March 20 and April 23. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and sits inside Holy Week, two days before Easter.
Many churches hold somber afternoon services between noon and 3 pm. Unusually for a non-federal day, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq close on Good Friday, while federal offices and mail delivery operate normally.
Friday, April 14, 2028. The table on this page lists the next six occurrences with their weekdays so you can plan travel, events and time off well ahead.