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New Year's Day 2026

United States · Thursday, January 1, 2026 · FM4, Q2 of FY2026

Thu
Weekday 2026
FM4
Fiscal Month
Q2
Fiscal Quarter
272d
To FY2026 Year-End
Country
United States
Calendar date 2026
2026-01-01 (Thursday)
Fiscal year
FY2026 (open year)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM4 of 12 · Quarter Q2 · printable monthly template
Source
OPM federal holidays

About New Year's Day

Federal holiday marking the start of the calendar year. Federal offices and the New York Stock Exchange are closed.

This page is the 2026-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the United States fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main New Year's Day page.

2026 weekday and observance

In 2026, New Year's Day falls on Thursday, January 1. A Thursday holiday is functionally a long weekend: many staff take the Friday as a personal day, so plan critical close milestones earlier in the week.

No weekend-shift rule applies in 2026 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Thursday, January 1, 2026. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.

Where it lands in FY2026

For organisations on the United States fiscal calendar, New Year's Day 2026 sits in fiscal month 4 (FM4), inside quarter Q2 of FY2026. From this date, you have approximately 272 days remaining until fiscal year-end on September 30, 2026. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.

For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: New Year's Day 2024 · New Year's Day 2025 · New Year's Day 2027 ·

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, New Year's Day 2026 reduces the working-day count for FM4 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.

If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2026 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.

Other holidays in January 2026

Cross-references