Days Until Mother's Day
Counting down to Mother's Day, which is the second Sunday of May. The next occurrence is Sunday, May 9, 2027 — 214 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Mother's Day was campaigned into existence by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908; President Wilson signed a proclamation in 1914 fixing it on the second Sunday of May. Jarvis later fought the holiday's commercialisation — she particularly disliked printed cards — yet it became the year's busiest day for restaurants and florists.
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What this tool does
Counting down to Mother's Day, which is the second Sunday of May. The next occurrence is Sunday, May 9, 2027 — 214 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Mother's Day was campaigned into existence by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908; President Wilson signed a proclamation in 1914 fixing it on the second Sunday of May. Jarvis later fought the holiday's commercialisation — she particularly disliked printed cards — yet it became the year's busiest day for restaurants and florists.
How to use the Days Until Mother's Day
- Check Target date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2027-05-09.
- Review the Days Until Mother's Day 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 Mother's Day: Target date (YYYY-MM-DD) = 2027-05-09. Counting down to Mother's Day, which is the second Sunday of May. The next occurrence is Sunday, May 9, 2027 — 214 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Mother's Day was campaigned into existence by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908; President Wilson signed a proclamation in 1914 fixing it on the second Sunday of May. Jarvis later fought the holiday's commercialisation — she particularly disliked printed cards — yet it became the year's busiest day for restaurants and florists.
Inputs
- Target date (YYYY-MM-DD)2027-05-09
Result
- Days until Mother's Day214
- Next Mother's DaySunday, May 9, 2027
- Weeks and days30 weeks, 4 days
- Status214 days to go
- Following Mother's DaySunday, May 14, 2028
Mother's Day dates for the next six years
| Date | Weekday |
|---|---|
| 2027-05-09 | Sunday |
| 2028-05-14 | Sunday |
| 2029-05-13 | Sunday |
| 2030-05-12 | Sunday |
| 2031-05-11 | Sunday |
| 2032-05-09 | Sunday |
Results explained
- Days until Mother's Day
- Whole calendar days from today to the next occurrence of Mother's Day (the second Sunday of May); zero on the day itself.
- Next Mother's Day
- The calendar date of the upcoming Mother's Day, 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 Mother's Day
- The occurrence after next, so the page still gives a target once this year's date passes.
Frequently asked questions
The next occurrence is Sunday, May 9, 2027. Mother's Day is the second Sunday of May, so you can project any future year from that rule without a printed calendar.
214 days from today (the count reaches zero on the day itself and then restarts toward Sunday, May 14, 2028). This page recounts from the current date every time it loads.
No. Mother's Day 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.
Mother's Day is the second Sunday of May. Mother's Day was campaigned into existence by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908; President Wilson signed a proclamation in 1914 fixing it on the second Sunday of May.
Families give flowers (carnations were the original emblem), cards and brunch; it is consistently one of the highest-volume days of the year for phone calls in the United States.
Sunday, May 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.