2027 starts on a Friday, has 365 days and puts Easter on 28 March. Below are the dates worth knowing for the year at a glance: the weekday each month starts on, every US federal holiday with its observed day off, the other dates people plan around, and a free 2027 year-at-a-glance printable with a fifteen-minute way to fill it in.
2027 at a glance: the basics
- 2027 starts on a Friday (1 January) and ends on a Friday (31 December).
- It is not a leap year: 365 days, and February has 28.
- Easter Sunday is 28 March.
- If you plan in Monday-to-Sunday weeks, the first week of 2027 begins on Monday 28 December 2026. Calendars that use ISO week numbers call that week 53 of 2026 and start week 1 on Monday 4 January.
The day each month of 2027 starts
Useful when you draw your own calendar or check a printed one. Three months start on a Monday: February, March and November.
| Month | Starts on |
|---|---|
| January | Friday |
| February | Monday |
| March | Monday |
| April | Thursday |
| May | Saturday |
| June | Tuesday |
| July | Thursday |
| August | Sunday |
| September | Wednesday |
| October | Friday |
| November | Monday |
| December | Wednesday |
US federal holidays in 2027
When a holiday falls on a weekend, federal offices observe it on the nearest weekday. Four observed days fall in 2027, shown in the last column, including New Year's Day 2028, which is a Saturday and is observed on Friday 31 December 2027.
| Holiday | Date | Observed |
|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Fri, Jan 1 | |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Mon, Jan 18 | |
| Presidents' Day | Mon, Feb 15 | |
| Memorial Day | Mon, May 31 | |
| Juneteenth | Sat, Jun 19 | Fri, Jun 18 |
| Independence Day | Sun, Jul 4 | Mon, Jul 5 |
| Labor Day | Mon, Sep 6 | |
| Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples' Day | Mon, Oct 11 | |
| Veterans Day | Thu, Nov 11 | |
| Thanksgiving | Thu, Nov 25 | |
| Christmas Day | Sat, Dec 25 | Fri, Dec 24 |
| New Year's Day 2028 | Sat, Jan 1 | Fri, Dec 31 |
Your employer or school may follow a different list, so check theirs and add any extra days off in the same colour.
Other 2027 dates people plan around
Not public holidays, but they decide plenty of weekends. The clock changes are for the US; the UK and most of Europe change on different Sundays.
| Date | Day |
|---|---|
| Valentine's Day | Sun, Feb 14 |
| Daylight saving time starts (US) | Sun, Mar 14 |
| Good Friday | Fri, Mar 26 |
| Easter Sunday | Sun, Mar 28 |
| Mother's Day (US) | Sun, May 9 |
| Father's Day (US) | Sun, Jun 20 |
| Halloween | Sun, Oct 31 |
| Daylight saving time ends (US) | Sun, Nov 7 |
| Christmas Eve | Fri, Dec 24 |
Fill it in, in fifteen minutes
- Fixed personal dates (five minutes). Birthdays, anniversaries, the dates people you love are hard to reach.
- Once-a-year money (three minutes). Insurance, car tax, memberships, annual subscriptions. A renewal you can see coming is one you can cancel or budget for.
- Commitments already booked (five minutes). School terms and exams, work deadlines, trips, weddings you are attending.
- The holidays above (two minutes). Then stop. Anything that might move belongs on a monthly page, not here.
The page works because it stays short. A year-at-a-glance crowded with maybes is just another to-do list; one with only fixed dates shows, at a glance, which months are already full before you agree to anything else.
Get the free 2027 page
The free 2027 Starter Pages include this year-at-a-glance page, plus a keep–stop–start page and three focus areas for the year, in US Letter and A4. If you plan on an iPad, our guide to setting up a 2027 digital planner shows how the same page becomes the index to the rest of the year.
Next in the season
Once the dates are on one page, carry them into the planner you will use every day. Our guide to setting up a 2027 digital planner is the last step of the season: three goals, key dates and January, ready to start.
The planner behind this page
The SagaLeaf 2027 Planner starts with this page, and every date on it is a link to the week that holds it. A key-dates page for birthdays, renewals and trips, twelve monthly calendars, a habit tracker and review for each month, and a weekly page for every week from 28 December 2026 to 2 January 2028 follow.
To close 2026 before you open 2027, the 2027 Fresh Start Bundle ($39) adds the New Year Reset Workbook and the Money Reset Budget Kit to the planner; our guide to a New Year reset in one evening shows how the workbook's evening goes.
Questions people ask
- What day of the week does 2027 start on?
- 2027 starts on a Friday, 1 January, and ends on a Friday, 31 December. It is not a leap year, so it has 365 days.
- When is Easter in 2027?
- Easter Sunday is 28 March 2027. School spring breaks vary by district, so add yours once the school calendar is published.
- What should go on a year-at-a-glance page?
- Only dates that are already fixed: birthdays and anniversaries, renewals and bills that come once a year, school terms and exams, holidays and trips you have booked. Plans that might move belong on monthly or weekly pages instead.
- When does week 1 of 2027 start?
- It depends on how your calendar counts weeks. Under the ISO standard used by most European calendars and many apps, week 1 starts on Monday 4 January 2027, and the week of 28 December 2026 is week 53 of 2026. Planners that start each year on the week containing 1 January, like the SagaLeaf 2027 Planner, begin on Monday 28 December 2026.
- Is the year-at-a-glance printable free?
- Yes. It is one of the free 2027 Starter Pages, in US Letter and A4, sent when you join the SagaLeaf email list. The 2027 Planner includes the same page with every date linked to its week.