July — days, dates and countdowns
July 2026 has 31 days, begins on a Wednesday, and contains the most anticipated date on the american calendar this year: Saturday, July 4 — 250 years since 1776. The july calendar below lays out the weekdays and holidays.
Every day of July
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3
- July 4
- July 5
- July 6
- July 7
- July 8
- July 9
- July 10
- July 11
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14
- July 15
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20
- July 21
- July 22
- July 23
- July 24
- July 25
- July 26
- July 27
- July 28
- July 29
- July 30
- July 31
July 2026 in numbers
- Days in July 2026: 31
- Working days: 22
- Free days (weekends and holidays): 9
- Public holidays in July 2026: 2
- Working days in 2026: 250
A free day is a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday — one rule on every page of this site. Holidays shown for the United States; pick another country.
Holidays in July 2026
Holidays by country
- Afghanistan
- Aland Islands
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antarctica
- Antigua And Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bonaire Sint Eustatius And Saba
- Bosnia And Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bouvet Island
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
40 of 250 countries · see them all
How to use July
Two questions dominate this month: what day the 4th of July falls on, and how the holiday interacts with the weekend. This page answers both for 2026 and keeps the rest of the month's dates alongside, so trip planning, closures and "is the 31st a weekday?" (it is — a Friday) get settled in one visit.
July calendar 2026: the shape of the month
Anchors for 2026: Canada Day — Wednesday, July 1 Independence Day (US) — Saturday, July 4 Bastille Day (France) — Tuesday, July 14 Month's end — Friday, July 31 With the 1st on a Wednesday, July 2026 splits into four full working weeks plus ragged edges on both ends. Every date ending in 4, 11, 18 or 25 is a Saturday.
What day of the week is July 4th 2026?
A Saturday — and not just any Fourth. July 4, 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Semiquincentennial. When Independence Day lands on a Saturday, the federal day off is typically observed on Friday, July 3, so the practical effect for 2026 is a three-day weekend with the celebration itself on Saturday night.
July holidays and the quiet stretch
After Bastille Day on the 14th, the july holidays run dry: the back half of the month has no major public holiday in the US, Canada, or the UK. This is by design in vacation terms — late July is when the out-of-office replies take over. The days in July are long, the inboxes short, and the month quietly does more resting than any calendar admits.
The Fourth of July is the rare deadline everyone meets: the fireworks do not wait, and nobody asks for an extension.
Named for a person, unlike most of the year
July is named after Julius Caesar, and August after Augustus — the two months in the calendar named for individuals rather than gods or numbers. They sit next to each other and both have 31 days, which is the source of a persistent story that August was lengthened so as not to look lesser than July. It is a good story and repeated often; the historical evidence for it is not as solid as the retelling suggests, so it is better enjoyed than asserted.
What is plain is the result: two consecutive 31-day months in the middle of the year, breaking the alternating pattern the calendar otherwise almost keeps.
Questions and answers
- How many days in July?
- Thirty-one, every year. July and August are the year's only back-to-back long months.
- What day of the week is July 1st, 2026?
- A Wednesday — which in Canada plants Canada Day squarely midweek.
- Why is July 4, 2026 a bigger deal than usual?
- It is the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, signed in 1776 — an anniversary the US has been preparing for under the name Semiquincentennial.