295 days until Labor Day 2027

Each weekday until Labor Day 2027

Counting the days after today, up to and including Monday, September 6, 2027. Useful for counting school days, work shifts or a weekly class before Labor Day.

What's open and closed on Labor Day 2027

Sources: OPM federal holidays, Federal Reserve holiday schedule, NYSE holidays and trading hours, USPS holiday notices. Individual banks, branches and post offices can set their own hours; check locally.

About Labor Day

Labor Day grew out of the American labor movement of the late 1800s, when workers were organizing for shorter hours, fair pay and safer conditions. The first Labor Day parade was held in New York City on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, organized by the city's Central Labor Union. Historians still debate who first proposed the idea: credit usually goes to either Peter J. McGuire, a carpenters' union leader, or Matthew Maguire, a machinist.

Cities and states adopted the holiday one by one, and Oregon became the first state to pass a Labor Day law in 1887. In 1894, the year of the nationwide Pullman railroad strike, Congress made Labor Day a federal holiday, and President Grover Cleveland signed it into law. It is always the first Monday in September, so it falls between September 1 and 7 and always creates a three-day weekend.

For many Americans, the long weekend is the unofficial end of summer: a last trip to the beach or lake, backyard barbecues and picnics, just as the school year and the football season get under way. Parades and union events still take place in many cities, and the old fashion rule against wearing white after Labor Day is still joked about. Most other countries honor workers on May 1, International Workers' Day.

How we check dates and facts: see our sources.

Labor Day over the next ten years

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