Days Until Thanksgiving
Live countdown to US Thanksgiving — 4th Thursday of November.
When Is Thanksgiving?
US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November each year. The date shifts annually between November 22 and November 28. The countdown above calculates the exact number of days, hours, minutes and seconds until midnight on Thanksgiving in your local time zone.
Thanksgiving Dates by Year
- Thanksgiving 2025 — Thursday, November 27, 2025
- Thanksgiving 2026 — Thursday, November 26, 2026
- Thanksgiving 2027 — Thursday, November 25, 2027
- Thanksgiving 2028 — Thursday, November 23, 2028
The History of Thanksgiving
In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, so its calendar date moves between November 22 and 28 each year. The holiday commemorates a 1621 harvest feast shared by the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag people, though days of thanksgiving had long existed across many cultures as harvest celebrations. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving in 1863, and in 1941 Congress fixed it to the fourth Thursday of November.
The day is now associated with family gatherings, a traditional turkey dinner, parades, American football, and the start of the holiday shopping season the following day. Canada celebrates its own Thanksgiving earlier, on the second Monday of October. Because the U.S. date depends on the weekday rather than a fixed number, the countdown recalculates the correct Thursday automatically every year, so you always see the days remaining to the next Thanksgiving.