Deadline Calculator

2026 federal holiday schedule

This calculator skips the eleven dates below whenever you choose court or business days. The list itself lives in the page's own code as a small function that finds the right Monday, or shifts a fixed date off a weekend; the table just prints what that function returns for 2026.

July 4 falls on a Saturday in 2026, so the observed holiday moves to Friday, July 3. These are the same eleven dates the calculator above already uses; nothing here comes from a separate source, and the table would show different dates for a different year.

How courts count these days

A legal deadline is the start date plus the number of days the governing rule allows, then adjusted for the counting method: calendar days run straight through the calendar, while court or business days skip Saturdays, Sundays, and the eleven U.S. federal holidays recognized under FRCP Rule 6(a)(6). Under FRCP Rule 6(a)(1)(A), the day of the triggering event, such as service of a complaint or entry of an order, is excluded from the count, so counting begins the next day. If the last day of the period falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, FRCP Rule 6(a)(1)(C) extends the deadline to the next day that is not one of those. State courts often follow a similar structure but keep their own holiday calendars, so confirm the specific rule before you file.

Worked example

Take the default values loaded above: a start date of June 15, 2026, adding 30 days. Counted as calendar days, 30 days after June 15 lands on July 15, 2026, a Wednesday, and no adjustment applies since that date already falls on a weekday. Counted as court days instead, skipping weekends and the federal holidays, the same 30-day count stretches out to July 29, 2026, also a Wednesday, fourteen days later than the calendar-day version. The stretch between June 16 and July 29 crosses twelve weekend days plus two holidays, Juneteenth (observed Friday, June 19) and Independence Day (observed Friday, July 3), which is the whole reason the two methods land two weeks apart on this particular date range. Change the start date or the day count in the calculator above and the gap will shrink or grow depending on which weekends and holidays fall inside the new range.

This calculator runs the federal defaults under FRCP Rule 6(a). Filing in Florida state court instead? Florida counts several deadlines differently, starting with a personal injury statute of limitations that HB 837 cut to two years. The state-specific version of this tool covers nine Florida deadlines with their own rule citations.

See also

• Counting working days between two fixed dates instead of one
• The full FRCP and FRAP citation table this tool is built on
• A step-by-step walkthrough of the counting rules
• A version of this tool that also counts backward from a trial or hearing date