November — days, dates and countdowns

How to use November

The page is a planner, not an almanac: the holiday list below is sorted by date, each entry shows its 2026 weekday, and the month grid at the top highlights them so you can see at a glance which ones eat a working day and which fall on a weekend anyway. Switch the year selector and everything reflows.

November holidays 2026

Here is what the eleventh month of 2026 actually holds, verified against the calendar rather than copied from last year: November 1, Sunday — All Saints' Day; also the heart of Día de los Muertos celebrations;

November 3, Tuesday — Election Day in the United States; November 5, Thursday — Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom; November 11, Wednesday — Veterans Day in the US, Remembrance Day in Canada and the UK, Armistice Day in France;

November 26, Thursday — Thanksgiving in the United States, with the shopping frenzy landing on Friday the 27th. Notice the shape of the month: the biggest holiday sits in the last full week, so anyone stitching together a long break in 2026 gets Thursday through Sunday for the price of one vacation day.

Book anything that flies before Thanksgiving week does, or accept that the middle seat is now part of the tradition.

What day of the week is November 1?

In 2026 November 1 is a Sunday. That single fact fixes the whole month: Thanksgiving lands on the fourth Thursday, which a Sunday start places on the 26th, and the month closes on a Monday. In other years the answer moves, so the page always computes it from the year you pick instead of remembering a stale one.

Planning around the holidays in November 2026

Two of the listed dates fall on or next to weekends, which changes what they cost you. All Saints' Day on a Sunday means no extra day off in most countries that observe it, while the holidays in November 2026 that land midweek — Election Day and Veterans Day — are the ones that genuinely break the working rhythm. If your goal is a quiet stretch for focused work, the first half of the month is the calm before the retail storm.

Where the name comes from

From novem, Latin for nine. November was the ninth month when the Roman year opened in March. It is the third in the run of four months whose names are two places out of step with their positions, and like the others it was never corrected.